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The Next Iteration of Hospital-Physician Alignment: Making Medicare Profitable

  • Publication: Becker's Hospital Review
  • Release Date: May 14, 2012

The idea of aligning physicians with hospitals and health systems is not new. In fact, it has been experimented with since the 1990s and the rise of managed care. In many cases those relationships crashed and burned, and the idea of physicians as hospital employees faded. Then, several years ago, the idea resurfaced, in part because of observations that systems with closely aligned and integrated physicians provided some of the best care at some of the lowest costs.

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