Managed Health Care Connect January 30, 2017
Researchers from Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy recently released a paper entitled, “The Integration and De-integration of Physicians and Hospitals Over Time,” which detailed how the shift to tighter physician-hospital integration is more complex than originally anticipated, despite the growing trend of integration between physicians and hospitals.
“The Affordable Care Act (ACA) and changing economic conditions have encouraged an increase in physician-hospital integration,” Vivian Ho, PhD, director of Center for Health and Biosciences at the Baker Institute, and colleagues, wrote in the paper. “In particular, accountable care organizations (ACOs) and medical homes will continue to spur integration over the coming years. Policy experts and clinicians have described the potential of ACOs to improve health care quality and control...
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