Hospital execs argue disruptors will ‘skim the cream,’ ignore community health

Dive Brief:

• Yale New Haven Health CEO Marna Borgstrom and Henry Ford Health System CEO Wright Lassiter are among those worried so-called disruptors like Amazon may divert revenue streams away from hospitals, speaking at the AHA’s annual meeting this week.
• When new market entrants want to push into health systems’ most profitable business streams and “skim the cream off the top,” Lassiter said, undercapitalized hospitals could become reliant on low Medicare and Medicaid payments while responsible for the most vulnerable and highest-cost patients. “None of the disruptors” are targeting traditional Medicare and Medicaid populations, Borgstrom said, because they have to answer to shareholders.
• Former FTC Bureau of Competition director Debbie Feinstein said that while she believes this...

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