CEO SUMMARY: Consolidation and integration of healthcare services will be the dominant trend during the next five years. It happened to commercial laboratories from 1985-95. Widespread hospital consolidation began around 1990 and continues today. Now consolidation is coming to physicians. As physician practices consolidate and come under the management of multi-billion dollar national corporations, both […]
Physician Management Companies Exploding, Will Transform Healthcare
Affecting pathology & clinical laboratories
- By Robert Michel
- > From the Volume IV No. 10 - July 14, 1997 Issue
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