Merger mania: physicians beware. (Health Care Mergers).(integrated health services)

From: Physician Executive | Date: March 1, 1998| Author: | Copyright information

Key Concepts: Hospital Mergers/Forming Health Networks/Eliminating the Competition?/Antitrust Concerns

Corporate consolidations, mergers, and acquisitions would seem to provide immense promise in furthering the development of health networking because they affect the governance of entire organizations, rather than simply establishing revised arrangements for specific services or patients. Yet, a limited number of empirical studies have been published to date that explore whether hospital mergers actually improve access, reduce cost, or improve quality of care; and, among the reports ...

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