USC Annenberg’s Reporting on Health Presents Supersized: The Rise of the Hospital Giants
SINCE THE PASSAGE of the Affordable Care Act, hospital consolidation has dramatically increased. And the results, critics say, are rising costs and less competition. Hospitals are gobbling up smaller rivals; doctors are selling their practices to hospitals; and mega-hospitals are facing off against insurers with newfound negotiating power. Health reform was supposed to curb runaway health costs, but could it be bringing about just the opposite? Are health care “goliaths” increasingly dictating the prices and premiums we pay? And, are there steps that government and private companies can take to lower prices and improve quality in markets that have undergone consolidation?
Join Schaeffer Center Director of Public Policy Paul Ginsburg, Martin S. Gaynor, the E.J. Barone Professorship of Economics and Health Policy at Carnegie Mellon University, and Margot Sanger-Katz, correspondent for the New York Times on Tuesday, May 19th, at 10:00 AM PST, for a webinar that will give an overview of these trends, clarify what’s at stake for consumers, and give journalists fresh ideas for reporting in new, incisive ways.
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