Richard Payerchin is editor of Medical Economics.
Health care consolidation pushes up costs, but not quality
Systematic review examines effects of corporatization through mergers and acquisitions since 2000.
Consolidation can lead to work conditions that add to physician burnout
Physicians Foundation examined how doctors feel about business environment in health care.
Burnout and consolidation: We’re expecting too little of AI
The president of The Physicians Foundation discusses consolidation in health care and how it contributes to burnout.
Burnout and consolidation: A new generation of feelings about mental health for physicians
Burnout and consolidation: Making it easier to get mental health aid
Burnout and consolidation: Feelings of frustration may be moderating a bit
Burnout and consolidation: Physician burnout is not abating
Burnout and consolidation: Smaller, independent practices are gone, and so is joy of being a doctor
Burnout and consolidation: Incentives for health systems to grow
Private equity investment can help independent doctors, health care quality, AIMPA says
There are different types of PE involvement in health care, and not all are bad, says group of independent practitioners.
Best of 2024: Physician politicians: Why doctors choose to serve -- and how you can too
Understanding the process of campaigning and why more doctors need to get involved in politics.
Burnout and consolidation: Preserving physician autonomy
Burnout and consolidation: ‘The environment physicians are practicing in has changed dramatically’
Private equity in health care: More ways to strengthen independent practice
The leader of the American Independent Medical Practice Association discusses the state of private equity investment in health care.
Burnout and consolidation: an introduction
Private equity in health care: Fix the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule
Private equity in health care: ‘Don’t regulate us out of existence’
Private equity in health care: Cost, quality and regulation
Private equity in health care: Measuring quality of care
Private equity in health care: Physicians provide the lowest-cost care
Private equity in health care: Picking medical specialties to study
Private equity in health care: Four models of physician employment
Private equity in health care: Developing the base of a study
Private equity in health care: ‘A different animal’
Private equity in health care: an introduction
U.S. health care spending in 2023 – a slideshow
Health care costs money. Here’s how much the nation spent last year.
U.S. health care spending hits $4.9 trillion in 2023
CMS Office of the Actuary publishes annual price tag; physicians got $978 billion of it.
Telehealth, PBM reforms part of House year-end spending plan
Health care organizations respond to ‘mixed bag’ bill.
Majority of Hispanic/Latino adults don’t have adequate health insurance
Commonwealth Fund breaks out data from state of U.S. health insurance survey.
Health care predictions for 2025 – a slideshow
AANP offers five critical health care trends for next year.