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Interestingly, the shift seems linked to the passage of the Affordable Care Act in 2010.

An annual ranking of the most influential people in health care has sharply tilted toward CEO’s in recent years, a new study said, as the number of academics and advocates on the list has decreased significantly.

The analysis, published in Mayo Clinic Proceedings, looked at another publication: Modern Healthcare, and its yearly rankings of the 100 most-influential people in U.S. health care. The study by Mayo researchers noted that the widely quoted rankings have a relatively opaque selection process—making it more difficult for power players to game the rankings.

What the Mayo Proceedings study found is that the rankings have increasingly favored executives from health...

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Topics: ACA (Affordable Care Act), Govt Agencies, Health System / Hospital, Insurance, Market Research, Provider, Trends
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