Health Care Thoughts: Tenet Buys Vanguard, Wave of the Future?

by Tom aka Rusty Rustbelt

Health Care Thoughts: Tenet Buys Vanguard, Wave of the Future?

The three most frequently used words in health care strategy today are:

Integration – more providers employed by hospitals, networks and corporate providers

Consolidation – networks and corporate providers getting larger
Alignment – trying to develop business models that make sense for front line providers in these behemoth organizations, now and in the future

This was a foreseeable consequence of Obamacare, and may have been an intentional consequence (without the feds taking public credit).

Is this good or bad for the health care system system? We do not know, there are too many “known unknowns” and some “unknown unknowns.”

Is this anti-competitive? Depends on the market. Will this lower costs? Unknown.
Hang on, a wild ride is coming.
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