Jeff Brady, NPR News

Posts by Jeff Brady, NPR News

Hospitals

Two Pittsburgh healthcare giants are breaking up, and it could get messy for the patients

Pittsburgh’s dominant health insurance company and its largest healthcare provider are, essentially, getting a divorce. For decades, Highmark Blue Cross/Blue Shield and University of Pittsburgh Medical Center worked together. But as the line between insurance companies and health care providers across the country blurs, these longtime allies are venturing into each other’s business and becoming […]