Skip to main page content
U.S. flag

An official website of the United States government

Dot gov

The .gov means it’s official.
Federal government websites often end in .gov or .mil. Before sharing sensitive information, make sure you’re on a federal government site.

Https

The site is secure.
The https:// ensures that you are connecting to the official website and that any information you provide is encrypted and transmitted securely.

Access keys NCBI Homepage MyNCBI Homepage Main Content Main Navigation
. 2020 Aug;39(8):1321-1325.
doi: 10.1377/hlthaff.2020.00017.

Consolidation Of Providers Into Health Systems Increased Substantially, 2016-18

Michael F Furukawa  1 , Laura Kimmey  2 , David J Jones  3 , Rachel M Machta  4 , Jing Guo  5 , Eugene C Rich  6
Affiliations

Consolidation Of Providers Into Health Systems Increased Substantially, 2016-18

Michael F Furukawa et al. Health Aff (Millwood). 2020 Aug.

Abstract

Provider consolidation into vertically integrated health systems increased from 2016 to 2018. More than half of US physicians and 72 percent of hospitals were affiliated with one of 637 health systems in 2018. For-profit and church-operated systems had the largest increases in system size, driven in part by a large number of system mergers and acquisitions.

Keywords: Acute care hospitals; Consolidation; For profit status; Health are providers; Health policy; Health services; Hospital mergers; Markets; Nonprofit status; Primary care; Safety net hospitals; Systems of care; Vertical integration.

PubMed Disclaimer

Comment in

Publication types

LinkOut - more resources