Large health systems with multiple subsidiaries aren’t more likely to adopt care delivery and payment reforms than smaller systems, according to new research published in Health Affairs. The findings ...

8 Points on Hospital-Physician Integration From Stephen Moore at Catholic Health Initiatives Catholic Health Initiatives is a faith-based system that includes 73 hospitals and operates in 19 states.

Hospitals and healthcare systems nationwide are increasingly buying more physician practices as health reform requires care delivery to move toward a more quality-based care model instead of a fee-for ...

How much does vertical integration among hospitals and physician provider organizations help improve care quality and patient satisfaction? According to a recently published study, not that much. How ...

Most physicians foresee hospital integration as the way of the future, even though they haven’t considered integration themselves, according to the Deloitte’s Physician Perspectives Survey. Only 31 ...

The integration is aimed at supporting LTPAC facilities that face persistent challenges with interoperability.

U.S. hospitals have begun responding to health care reform and the Affordable Care Act (ACA) of 2010 by accelerating alignment with physicians. Hospital-physician vertical integration has increased ...

HOUSTON -- (Feb. 13, 2019) - In an age of increased integration between physicians and hospitals, regulators should continue to scrutinize proposed hospital mergers and take steps to maintain ...