Managed Healthcare Executive January 17, 2022
Forty percent of the respondents to our annual State of the Industry survey expect vertical integration of providers to increase this year.
Scratch beneath the surface of almost any recent trend in healthcare and you’ll find that it is not as new as it might first appear.
But there is really nothing new about consolidation in healthcare. Hospitals have been combining into larger, market-dominating systems for decades. According to a 2020 Medpac report, 90% of hospital markets met Federal Trade Commission definitions for “highly concentrated” in 2017 and there are no indications of the trend reversing since then.
The same is true of the payer side of the street. The Medpac report says 21 of 51 regions (the states plus...
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