Report: Market Clout Driving Up Mass. Health Care Costs

Health care costs in Massachusetts are continuing to increase substantially in part because some hospitals and doctors have sufficient market power to demand higher payments from insurers in the state, according to a preliminary report state Attorney General Martha Coakley (D) is scheduled to release today.

• "AG Finds Clout of Hospitals Drives Costs" (Kowalczyk/Allen, Boston Globe, 1/29).