Consolidation Of Providers Into Health Systems Increased Substantially, 2016–18 | Zendy

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Consolidation Of Providers Into Health Systems Increased Substantially, 2016–18

Author(s) -

Michael F. Furukawa,

Laura Kimmey,

David J. Jones,

Rachel Machta,

Jing Guo,

Eugene C. Rich

Publication year - 2020

Publication title -

health affairs

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 3.837

H-Index - 178

eISSN - 2694-233X

pISSN - 0278-2715

DOI - 10.1377/hlthaff.2020.00017

Subject(s) - consolidation (business) , healthcare system , business , mergers and acquisitions , health care , finance , economics , economic growth

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 in 2018. For-profit and church-operated systems had the largest increases in system size, driven in part by a large number of system mergers and acquisitions.

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