Compared to Medicare site-based payment policy, oncologists' practice characteristics emerged as more potent factors for integration and should be considered to ensure the intended impacts of ...

Vertical integration allows health organizations to coordinate care seamlessly. When hospitals, primary care providers, specialists, and pharmacies operate within a unified network, information flows ...

For decades, vertical integration meant ownership. According to Michael E. Porter's seminal work Competitive Advantage: Creating and Sustaining Superior Performance, companies sought to reduce costs, ...