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

Vertical integration has been a central feature of health care delivery system change for more than two decades. Recent studies have demonstrated that vertically integrated health care systems raise ...

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 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 ...

Many private and public entrepreneurs are busily building large corporate systems to compete in the rapidly evolving world of managed care. By contrast, California, which has a health insurance market ...

Based on the premise of bounded rationality, this study introduces the value function and decision weight function from prospect theory into the framework of evolutionary game theory to analyze the ...

Editor’s Note: The number of healthcare transactions reached a record-smashing 1,738 in 2018. According to a new Capital One poll, mergers and acquisitions are the ...

For decades, vertical integration meant ownership. According to Michael E. Porter's seminal work Competitive Advantage: Creating and Sustaining Superior Performance, companies sought to reduce costs, ...

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 ...