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Time to Consider a New Look at Physician-Owned Hospitals to Increase Competition in Health Care?

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  • Looking to competition as a strategy to help slow spending means understanding the many barriers to competition that currently exist

  • Whether competition effectively achieves these improvements in health care, with respect to hospital services, which remains the largest sector of spending for health care, is open to debate

  • The latest estimates from the Department of Health and Human Services Health Care Payment Learning and Action Network indicate that 35.8% of health care payments are tied to value-based care

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Looking to competition as a strategy to help slow spending means understanding the many barriers to competition that currently exist. Time to Consider a New Look at Physician-Owned Hospitals to Increase Competition in Health Care? In most sectors of the economy, competition is regarded as the way to improve quality and efficiency, lower costs, and increase innovations.

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