Vertical Integration Returns to U.S. Healthcare: What You Need to Know Now

In the 1990s, during the Clinton Administration, the USA saw many attempts to achieve vertical integration in healthcare.  Here we are again! New acronyms were initiated and made popular to describe Independent Practice Associations (IPAs), Physician Hospital Organizations (PHOs), which were managed and administered by entities known as Management Services Organizations (MSOs). Physicians felt the...

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