Research reported in JAMA Internal Medicine examined how the rise of tighter financial integration between doctors and hospitals impacted costs for people enrolled in private health insurance plans from 2008 to 2012.
In communities with the sharpest increase in financial integration between doctors and hospitals over the study period, average annual outpatient costs for each person with private health insurance increased by $75, while the amount of outpatient services they used was little changed.
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