Integration, negotiation, patient costs — What happens when hospitals integrate independent physician practices?

Hospital takeovers of physician practices drive up health care prices, study finds

As hospitals in the United States gobble up private physician practices, patients and insurers pay more for essential care, a new Yale study finds.

Integration, negotiation, patient costs — What happens when hospitals integrate independent physician practices?

A study quantifies effects of less market competition across the nation as hospitals integrated doctors’ offices into their systems.