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Across the country, hospitals and whole health systems are merging under the guise of improving quality, fostering efficiencies, and lowering healthcare costs. But, some recent evidence has emerged that suggests these aims are not being achieved with the mergers. Phillip Pantuso, journalist and Managing Editor of The River Newsroom, recently wrote an article about the healthcare mergers that have occurred in the greater Catskill region of New York. The article presents evidence of the various issues that communities face with hospital and health system consolidations; these mergers are not cutting costs (as promised)–instead, they are creating them.
On this podcast, registered nurse and program host Diana Mason, PhD., RN, is joined by Phillip Pantuso for a conversation about his article, and the many costs of health system mergers.
This podcast first aired on HealthCetera in the Catskills on WIOX Radio on December 1st, 2021.
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