Jason Fernando is a professional investor and writer who enjoys tackling and communicating complex business and financial problems. Natalya Yashina is a CPA, DASM with over 12 years of experience in ...
Provider consolidation into vertically integrated health systems increased from 2016 to 2018. More than half of US physicians and 72 percent of hospitals were affiliated with one of 637 health systems ...
Health systems continue to grow in size. Financial integration—the ownership of hospitals or physician practices—often has anticompetitive effects that contribute to the higher prices for health care ...