THE ILLUSIVE LOGIC OF INTEGRATION Healthcare Forum Journal (September/October 1994): 26-31 THE PROSPECT OF HEALTH REFORM HAS UNLEASHED A FRENZY OF activity in healthcare: mergers, consolidations, alliances, physician-hospital organization
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THE PROSPECT OF HEALTH REFORM HAS UNLEASHED A FRENZY OF activity in healthcare: mergers, consolidations, alliances, physician-hospital organization development, practice acquisition, and the like. These strategies assume managed care-based reform, in which funding for those who are newly enfranchised will flow not to individual providers, but to systems and networks. This assumption is probably valid. Yet the current, frantic restructuring of health services in search of the illusive "integrated" healthcare organization may actually make it more difficult for hospitals and physicians to function under capitation.
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