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A beneficiary, other than a spouse, can face a big tax bill when inheriting an annuity. Choosing annuitization or the "stretch" option lets you soften the blow by extending tax deferral.

Payment models should reflect not just the theoretical value of services rendered, but the practical realities of how healthcare is financed and paid for today.

Big groups clean up in independent dispute resolution, but little, if any, goes to primary care.

Cost trends keep outrunning forecasts in recent years. The Business Group on Health survey shows that next year will follow the same trend.

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The approval lets patients using the investigational Connexus BCI connect personal laptops, tablets and phones through the company's Convey system without device-by-device FDA sign-off.

Considering that a family physician's office is often the first—and sometimes only—place where patients discuss mental health concerns, adding such services within a primary care setting makes sense for both the practice and the communities it serves.

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Dolly Parton, who died Aug. 25, 2026, at 80, funded research at Vanderbilt, a women's health center in her home county and the Knoxville children's hospital that bears her name.

APP integration is now the norm, not the exception