Vertical integration allows health organizations to coordinate care seamlessly. When hospitals, primary care providers, specialists, and pharmacies operate within a unified network, information flows ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

As a former student-athlete and a life-long sports enthusiast, I have always been enamored with competition. Merriam-Webster defines competition as "the effort of two or more parties acting ...

“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 ...

State lawmakers still had many questions Wednesday over the proposed partnership between Hawaii’s largest health insurer and ...