A steep rise in U.S. hospitals buying up private physician practices has triggered a substantial increase in prices for medical care with no discernible effect on quality, according to a new study ...

Is your organization prepared for this new era of joint accountability and quality improvement? Are you well-positioned to achieve successful hospital-physician alignment?We are at a critical time in ...

Whether or not accountable care organizations become a permanent part of the healthcare landscape, most experts agree that hospital-physician integration is a growing trend that has the potential for ...

This study found no evidence that hospital employment of physicians resulted in physicians treating sicker patients, undercutting claims that hospital-employed physicians serve a higher-acuity patient ...

Hospitals can leverage their position between the ultimate buyers and sellers of drugs to retain a substantial share of insurer pharmaceutical expenditures. In this study, we used 2020–2021 national ...

Hospital and private equity (PE) consolidation in health care is altering the physician practice landscape, with more than three-quarters of physicians employed by these corporate entities as of 2023.

The federal government has greatly increased its regulatory efforts related to investigating, prosecuting and combating healthcare fraud.1 This focus, combined with the movement of physician providers ...

In the US in recent years, hospital-physician integration has become a dominant form of consolidation in health care. This transition away from independent practice has raised questions about whether ...