Current fee-for-service models incentivize patient volume over quality of care, reducing humans to “decimal points on a spreadsheet.” Major wearable and health-tech companies increasingly monetize ...

The many parts of the complex PBM equation have opened the door for forward-thinking minds to innovate and move from vertical ...

U.S. hospitals have begun responding to health care reform and the Affordable Care Act (ACA) of 2010 by accelerating alignment with physicians. Hospital-physician vertical integration has increased ...

The poster session, “Behind the Curtain: How Healthcare Policy Shapes Patient Outcomes,” took place on the final day of the American Heart Association Scientific Session. Vertical integration, which ...

Vertical integration across independent cardiologists has led to higher costs in Medicare over the last 15 years with “minimal evidence” of any increase in quality of care, according to findings ...

On March 5, 2024, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) Antitrust Division, and the Department of Health and Human Services launched a cross-government request for ...

This study found no evidence that hospital employment of physicians resulted in physicians treating sicker patients, undercutting claims that hospital-employed physicians serve a higher-acuity patient ...

Vertical health delivery programmes were highly effective in rapid roll-out of HIV services in high-burden countries in ...

Medicare Advantage, the form of Medicare where insurance companies take the risk of monetary losses while providing the same care as traditional Medicare but at a lower cost to beneficiaries, now ...

“Value-based care” — that familiar, vague phrase that has no real definition but that everyone supports — is firmly entrenched in Wall Street vernacular. The phrase “value-based care” began ...