Integrating to Enhance Value and Quality vs. Preserving Competition to Maintain Lower Prices

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J. Mark Waxman, Sep 30, 2014

The Affordable Care Act, the Triple Aim (targeting enhanced quality and patient satisfaction, engaging in population health, and reducing per capita costs), and the need for capital and infrastructure to change from a fee-based system of care to a value- and results-based system are all driving providers to consider merging and consolidating health care systems, as never before. Those merging believe t