Chief Healthcare Executive September 23, 2024
Physicians say consolidations are contributing to burnout. Gary Price of The Physicians Foundation tells Chief Healthcare Executive doctors are being pressed to take more patients and are losing autonomy.
More hospitals and health systems are consolidating across the country, and many organizations tout the potential of mergers to expand care options for patients.
But some doctors are seeing serious drawbacks in the wake of health system mergers. In fact, doctors say healthcare mergers are adding to their feelings of burnout and reducing their job satisfaction, according to a new report from the Physicians Foundation.
Gary Price, MD, president of The Physicians Foundation, tells Chief Healthcare Executive® that mergers are falling short of their promises for doctors and patients.
“The bottom...
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