Coakley reopens talks with Partners HealthCare

Published September 3, 2014 11:48pm ET



BOSTON (AP) — Attorney General Martha Coakley says her office will renegotiate part of an agreement it hammered out with Partners HealthCare, Massachusetts’ largest hospital and physicians’ network.

Coakley’s office made the announcement Wednesday hours after the state’s Health Policy Commission released a report criticizing part of the agreement that dealt with Partner’s planned acquisition of Hallmark Health Systems, which owns Lawrence Memorial Hospital in Medford and Melrose-Wakefield Hospital.

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