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- Title
Overcoming the Market Dominance of Hospitals.
- Authors
Kocher, Robert P.; Shah, Soleil; Navathe, Amol S.
- Abstract
This Viewpoint reviews the conditions which incentivize consolidation of health systems, hospitals, and physician practices into entities that decrease health care quality and increase prices, and in the context of financial pressures wrought by the COVID-19 pandemic proposes policy solutions that could protect patients against potential adverse effects of accelerating trends toward consolidation.
- Subjects
UNITED States; HOSPITALS; HEALTH systems agencies; PHYSICIAN practice acquisitions; MERGERS &; acquisitions; MEDICAL care; COVID-19; HEALTH policy
- Publication
JAMA: Journal of the American Medical Association, 2021, Vol 325, Issue 10, p929
- ISSN
0098-7484
- Publication type
journal article
- DOI
10.1001/jama.2021.0079