MedPage Today May 21, 2024
— To compete with big health systems, small providers have to get bigger, expert says
WASHINGTON — What is driving consolidation in healthcare? The answer is: consolidation, Erin Fuse Brown, JD, MPH, said Tuesday.
“If all of the other competitors in the market are getting bigger, then in order to survive — if you’re a community hospital, or you’re a small physician group — you need to also join something big and powerful,” Brown, who is professor of law at Georgia State University in Atlanta, said at an event here sponsored by the Georgetown University Center on Health Insurance Reforms.
“The bigger you are, the more pricing power you have in the commercial market,” she continued. “That means you can...
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