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Over the past two decades, hospital systems have increasingly acquired physician practices, arguing that integration improves care coordination, lowers costs, and stabilizes struggling practices. In reality, this consolidation has often produced the opposite effect: higher costs, reduced physician autonomy, diminished…
Over the past two decades, hospital systems have increasingly acquired physician practices, arguing that integration improves care coordination, lowers costs, and stabilizes struggling practices. In reality, this consolidation has often produced the opposite effect: higher costs, reduced physician autonomy, diminished innovation, and care that is less responsive to patients’ needs. While hospitals and physicians must collaborate closely, ownership is not collaboration, and hospital systems should not be in the business …
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Why hospitals shouldn’t own physician practices: 6 key reasons
Physician voices

The time has come. The time has come for patients to know how dangerous the state of health care has become and to finally do something about it. I’m ticked off. So ticked off that I’m writing this in between…
The time has come. The time has come for patients to know how dangerous the state of health care has become and to finally do something about it. I’m ticked off. So ticked off that I’m writing this in between office patients, and I really try very hard to prevent my patients from waiting. Apparently insurance companies feel practicing medicine is as easy as checking off boxes, like hanging chads …
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It’s time for doctors to tell insurance companies how they really feel
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