Fierce Healthcare April 30, 2018
The actual work of boosting healthcare quality and reining in costs gets done in medical offices, not corporate cubicles.
A couple of giant proposed healthcare mergers have garnered a lot of attention in recent months. People want to know what CVS’ $69 billion deal for Aetna or Cigna’s $52 billion agreement to buy Express Scripts can tell us about the future of U.S. healthcare.
But a clearer picture of how the industry is changing might actually come from a string of smaller, less heralded deals.
Insurers are snapping up physician practices. UnitedHealth Group, the largest U.S. health insurance company, agreed in December to pay $4.9 billion for DaVita Medical Group, whose physicians serve some 1.7 million people a year...
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