HMSA, Hawaii Pacific Health to affiliate under new parent nonprofit - Becker's Payer Issues | Payer News Blue Cross Blue Shield licensee Hawaii Medical Service Association and Honolulu-based Hawaii Pacific Health are coming together under a new nonprofit parent organization, One Health Hawaii, the…

#HMSA will also offer a care model that reduces prior authorizations to providers beyond #HawaiiPacificHealth, and it's an open system, but it still bears watching due to #monopolization concerns. #Hawaii #mergers

Hawaii’s new healthcare ‘merger’ is a warning for the rest of America It’s part of a larger trend of consolidation, creating fewer corporate choices for healthcare that creates cost increases.

What’s happening to Hawaii’s merging health companies should be worrying the rest of us across the country

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