72% of hospitals were affiliated with a system in 2018, study finds

Becker's Healthcare August 4, 2020
Alia Paavola

Seventy-two percent of hospitals in the U.S. were affiliated with a health system in 2018, according to a study published Aug. 3 in Health Affairs.

For the study, researchers analyzed data from the IQVIA OneKey dataset and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality’s Compendium of US Health Systems, a publicly available database that contains information about the systems operating in the U.S., including system size, ownership type and links to healthcare systems.

Researchers sought to find how the consolidation of providers into health systems, the size of systems and the landscape of health system ownership changed between 2016 and 2018.

Five study findings:

1. The number of health systems in the U.S. increased from 626 in 2016 to...

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