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A new analysis of Florida’s health care markets finds that as the state’s hospitals consolidate and expand, new business models are shifting the negotiating power. “You have at least three major hospital systems in the state moving in the direction of becoming statewide hospital systems,” says Allan Baumgarten, the health care finance analyst behind the latest Florida Health Market Review. (Mack, 11/19)

A dozen medical groups are appealing the state's approval of a new alliance formed by its largest health insurer. The groups, including Capital Health Regional Medical Center, Trinitas Regional Medical Center and Virtua Health, filed their appeal against the Department of Banking and Insurance on Thursday in Superior Court. They say the department approved Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield's OMNIA Health Alliance without holding public hearings, among other objections. (11/19)

LSU's lawsuit seeking to oust the operator of its university hospitals in Shreveport and Monroe was thrown out Thursday by a state district judge who said the breach-of-contract filing was premature. Judge Todd Hernandez agreed with the hospitals' manager, Biomedical Research Foundation of Northwest Louisiana, that LSU didn't follow contract provisions for working to repair problems before declaring a breach. (Deslatte, 11/20)