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- Title
Hospital Consolidation, Competition, and Quality.
- Authors
Tsai, Thomas C.; Jha, Ashish K.
- Abstract
The authors comment on the increase in the number of hospital mergers and acquisitions in the U.S. since 2009, which is linked some to the implementation of the Affordable Care Act. Topics covered include the benefits of consolidation, assessment of the arguments that underlie the consolidation, and the potential influence of the arguments on clinical care.
- Subjects
UNITED States; HOSPITAL mergers; PATIENT Protection &; Affordable Care Act; MEDICAL care; MULTIHOSPITAL systems; HOSPITAL administration
- Publication
JAMA: Journal of the American Medical Association, 2014, Vol 312, Issue 1, p29
- ISSN
0098-7484
- Publication type
Opinion
- DOI
10.1001/jama.2014.4692