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When private practices merge with hospital systems, costs go up

https://insights.som.yale.edu/insights/when-private-practices-merge-with-hospital-systems-costs-go-up
49•hhs•1h ago

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megaloblasto•59m ago
It takes the great minds at yale to figure these things out
ryoshu•50m ago
Data vs. feels
lomase•49m ago
Nobody has ever said private is less wastefull than public?
nzeid•43m ago
Moot. When private equity and conglomerates get involved, operational concerns like waste and quality of service no longer matter. The only thing that matters is making money.
nzeid•46m ago
It's also worth pointing out precisely who owns these hospital systems.
ceejayoz•41m ago
Ah, but deaths…

Go up too. https://hms.harvard.edu/news/deaths-rose-emergency-rooms-aft...

Part of the problem of modern society is that statistical murder of thousands is treated as less of a crime than a normal murder of one person.

cyanydeez•36m ago
I think you mean murder via diffusion of responsibility is good for business. Its like the trolley problem, but instead of one lever thete a chain of them and at least one of them is the final one, any number of them are like tumblers in a lock.
johndhi•28m ago
I hate the US healthcare system but I don't support using the word murder in this context. Murder is very very different from trying to help a person but being greedy while doing it.
ceejayoz•26m ago
But it’s not “a person”. It’s millions of them.
roughly•18m ago
> trying to help a person but being greedy while doing it.

The doctors are trying to help people, the execs are being greedy while doing it. Leadership doesn’t get the benefit of the doubt at this point.

mrosett•26m ago
These are two distinct issues.

The study you linked concerns whether the hospital is owned by a nonprofit or by a private equity group.

The question in this study is whether physicians work for their own practice or for the hospital directly, regardless of the ownership of the hospital.

zdw•30m ago
The primary reason that this happens is that medical billing and patient management systems are so complicated that it's cheaper for private practices to outsource this to a hospital that already has a contract with Epic or similar extractive vendors.

If the US had a simpler billing/insurance system (or these extractive middlemen were removed entirely), this wouldn't be happening to the same extent.

grafmax•19m ago
Everybody needs healthcare. It’s a clear win for society if private actors can’t make it more inefficient by parasitizing a profit. The answer is single payer on the dime of the rentier capitalists. That’s how you reinvest in your society, not crypto and secret police.
nradov•11m ago
Everybody also needs food. Should the government also pay for everyone's food?
cwillu•3m ago
Why not? Flour and rice and potatoes are cheap, why shouldn't a basic level of nutrition be available?
trollbridge•1m ago
Less competition usually means higher prices and inferior service.

Imagine if every restaurant went to being owned by McDonald’s, and the reason we’re told for it is “credit card payment systems are so complicated!”

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