American Hospital Association October 31, 2019
A new study from Georgetown University’s Center on Health Insurance Reforms (CHIR) is another one-sided view of the changing health care landscape that has several key limitations, which are highlighted below, that make it a less than useful view of hospital mergers.
Like others, the report starts with a conclusion — that payers and employers have failed to control provider consolidation that is leading to higher spending on health care — and arguments are then cherry-picked to support this predetermined conclusion. The report is based on interviews with anonymous stakeholders who are typically at the other end of the negotiating table from hospitals, namely large private insurance companies and employer groups. The authors of the report present these biased...
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