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Laura Kimmey is a senior researcher at Mathematica in Raleigh, North Carolina.
Health Aff (Millwood). 2020 Aug;39(8):1321-1325. doi: 10.1377/hlthaff.2020.00017.
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.
医疗服务提供商整合为纵向整合的医疗体系的趋势在 2016 至 2018 年间不断增强。2018 年，超过一半的美国医生和 72%的医院与 637 个医疗体系中的一个有关联。营利性和教会运营的医疗体系在体系规模上的增长最大，这在一定程度上是由大量的体系合并和收购推动的。
