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Hospitals are being sold for about $45 million, "including working capital" deal is expected to close next year.
Affiliation and coalition have advantages like combining of operations and increased system efficiency; full integration provides the most benefit.
The joint venture combines Texas Health's integrated care teams with Aetna's health plan, care management and analytical expertise.
Partnership will be guided in part by a 10-year strategy, and will also support Vice President Joe Biden's National Cancer Moonshot initiative.
Adding full-time employees doesn't guarantee improvements, professor says.
The new models often require practices to take on downside financial risk, which is a lot to ask of an organization with scant resources.
While physicians are motivated to improve care quality, new frustrations with the complicated law coupled with change fatigue will bog doctors down.
While focus on care coordination and consumerism may likely continue, insiders worry that too much change could hurt them.
Price, a Georgia physician who opposes the Affordable Care Act, abortion and funding for Planned Parenthood, among other things, could have a rapid impact without even a presidential order or an act of Congress
Donald Trump has chosen an orthopedic surgeon who in his congressional career, has loyally promoted the interests of the medical profession.