The market forces quietly adding thousands to patient bills
Health care integration is occurring at a breakneck pace across the U.S., with endless permutations: Hospitals are buying doctors' practices and surgery and imaging centers. Insurers are buying doctors' practices and specialty pharmacies and sometimes merging with pharmacy chains. Hospitals are buying or creating insurers.
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