Everyone involved in health care knows that the industry is in a period of marked consolidation and transformation. These changes are happening in all sectors, both within each sector and across them, too. Hospitals are acquiring not only other hospitals but physician practices and insurance businesses; medical providers are opening accountable care practices that may function alongside still-operating traditional fee-for-service models; insurers continue to grow, arguing that their own mergers are necessary to counterbalance the excessive, and growing, market power of hospitals.
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