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who were helped by the law, seemingly ignoring those Americans who were hurt with much …

Policy makers and analysts have been voicing concerns about the increasing concentration
of health care providers and health insurers in markets nationwide, including the potential …

Despite growth in private equity (PE) acquisitions of physician practices in the US, little is
known about how changes in ownership influence workforce composition. Using clinician …

Importance Over the past 2 decades, a variety of new care options have emerged for acute
care, including urgent care centers, retail clinics, and telemedicine. Trends in the utilization …

Objective To identify the advantages and disadvantages that group practices have on
patients, physicians and healthcare systems. Study design A scoping review was performed …

Efforts to transform health care delivery to improve care have increasingly focused on care
integration. However, variation in how integration is defined has complicated efforts to …

Health systems are employing physicians in growing numbers. The implications of this trend
are poorly understood and controversial. We use rich data from the Centers for Medicare …

The growing concentration of physician markets throughout the United States has been
raising antitrust concerns, yet the Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission …

Importance Integration of physician practices into health systems composed of hospitals and
multispecialty practices is increasing in the era of value-based payment. It is unknown how …

Using prices of hospital admissions and visits to five types of physicians, we analyzed how
provider and insurer market concentration—as measured by the Herfindahl-Hirschman …