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  • 6 - Vertical Integration of Physicians and Hospitals
  • Mark Pauly, University of Pennsylvania, Flaura Winston, Mary Naylor, Kevin Volpp, Lawton Robert Burns, University of Pennsylvania, Ralph Muller, David Asch, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Rachel Werner, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Bimal Desai, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Krisda Chaiyachati, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Benjamin Chartock, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
  • Book: Seemed Like a Good Idea
  • Published online: 14 July 2022
  • Print publication: 28 July 2022, pp 161-245
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    Summary

    There has been growing interest in the vertical integration of physicians and hospitals during the past decade, as evidenced by multiple literature reviews and research investigations.1 Historically, physicians operated small firms that provided “physicians’ services” to patients who sometimes used facilities provided by separate hospital firms at which many physicians would have “privileges.” This interest in combining the two types of organizations culminated in a December 2020 issue of Health Services Research devoted to the topic that expressed surprise (and disappointment) that integration is not “a miracle cure”.2 Just months earlier, two of the major proponents of vertical integration published a study in the August issue of Health Affairs that came to a similar, “startling” conclusion: the financial integration of physicians and hospitals (e.g., via employment) had no impact on their clinical integration (and perhaps none on quality).

Seemed Like a Good Idea
  • Seemed Like a Good Idea
  • Alchemy versus Evidence-Based Approaches to Healthcare Management Innovation
  • Mark Pauly, Flaura Winston, Mary Naylor, Kevin Volpp, Lawton Robert Burns, Ralph Muller, David Asch, Rachel Werner, Bimal Desai, Krisda Chaiyachati, Benjamin Chartock
  • Published online: 14 July 2022
  • Print publication: 28 July 2022
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    Consumers, public officials, and even managers of health care and insurance are unhappy about care quality, access, and costs. This book shows that is because efforts to do something about these problems often rely on hope or conjecture, not rigorous evidence of effectiveness. In this book, experts in the field separate the speculative from the proven with regard to how care is rendered, how patients can be in control, how providers should be paid, and how disparities can be reduced – and they also identify the issues for which evidence is currently missing. It provides an antidote to frustration and a clear-eyed guide for forward progress, helping health care and insurance innovators make better decisions on deciding whether to go ahead now based on current evidence, to seek and wait for additional evidence, or to move on to different ideas. It will be useful to practitioners in hospital systems, medical groups, and insurance organizations and can also be used in executive and MBA teaching.
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