Health care policy and business face consequential times ahead, with Election Day Nov. 3 and a challenge to the Affordable Care Act (ACA) being heard before the Supreme Court on Nov. 10. In February 2018, two months after...more
Since the Affordable Care Act (the “ACA”) was enacted in 2010, the health care industry has been on the edge of its proverbial seat waiting to see which care delivery models are best suited to sustain all the changes: to...more
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With almost 18 percent of U.S. GDP spent on health care, experts see consolidation as fundamental to reducing costs—by integrating care coordination and delivery, and by increasing scale to drive efficiencies, including with...more