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Hospital consolidation is a great thing--as long as you happen to run a hospital. For the rest of us, it may not be so great.
That's the message inherent in a study by Allison Cuellar of Columbia University and Paul Gertler of the University of California at Berkeley. Following consolidation, hospital market power increased, but the efficiency of care delivery did not, the researchers write in the January/February issue of Health...
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