April 26th 2024
The 340B hospitals not receiving an offsetting lump-sum payment from CMS following 2018-2022 cuts later ruled unlawful are disproportionately rural, publicly owned, and nonacademic, according to a new study.
Robert Williams, MD, on the Legal Implications of Physician Integration in the Marketplace
August 14th 2013Robert Williams, MD, director, Deloitte, Consulting LLP, says physician integration is driven predominantly by the department of justice, and FTC regulations that require physicians to meet the definition of clinical integration.
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New Laws and Rising Costs Create a Surge of Supersizing Hospitals
August 13th 2013Hospitals across the nation are being swept up in the biggest wave of mergers since the 1990s, a development that is creating giant hospital systems that could one day dominate American health care and drive up costs.
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Peter Cunningham, PhD, Discusses the Challenges Primary Care Delivery Systems Face
September 25th 2012Peter Cunningham, PhD, Senior Fellow and Director of Quantitative Research, Center for Studying Health System Change, says that the expansion of people gaining coverage will be a big challenge for primary care delivery systems.
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