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Michael F. Furukawa is director of the Division of Healthcare Delivery and Systems Research, Center for Evidence and Practice Improvement, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, in Rockville, Maryland.
Health Aff (Millwood). 2021 Jan;40(1):165-169. doi: 10.1377/hlthaff.2020.00812.
Physician consolidation into health systems increased in nearly all metropolitan statistical areas (MSAs) from 2016 to 2018. Of the 382 US MSAs, 113 had more than half of their physicians in health systems in 2018. Consolidation of physicians was most notable in the Midwest and Northeast and in small-to-midsize MSAs.
从 2016 年到 2018 年,医生整合到医疗系统中的情况在几乎所有的都市区(MSAs)都有所增加。在 382 个美国 MSAs 中,有 113 个在 2018 年有超过一半的医生在医疗系统中。中西部和东北部以及中小规模的 MSAs 的医生整合最为显著。