The CEOs of the nation’s largest health insurers drew the ire of lawmakers on both sides of the aisle during congressional hearings that went for more than nine hours Jan. 22 over industry ...

Leaders of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) across administrations have promoted the policy goal of driving all of Medicare and the majority of Medicaid patients into risk-based ...

"Vertical integration" refers to a strategic business approach where a company assumes control over the entire or select parts of its supply chain and certain phases of production. This approach to ...

The poster session, “Behind the Curtain: How Healthcare Policy Shapes Patient Outcomes,” took place on the final day of the American Heart Association Scientific Session. Vertical integration, which ...

Vertical integration makes sense as a strategy, as it allows a company to reduce costs across various parts of production, ...

There is growing demand from original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) for contract manufacturing partners that are vertically integrated, according to a medical device manufacturer. Sonoco Plastics, a ...

NEW YORK (AP) — While many are skeptical of the business logic behind AT&T's desire to buy Time Warner, a similar deal from earlier this decade, Comcast's marriage with NBCUniversal, foreshadows some ...

Forward integration empowers businesses to control distribution, streamline operations, and eliminate intermediaries. Learn ...

U.S. hospitals have begun responding to health care reform and the Affordable Care Act (ACA) of 2010 by accelerating alignment with physicians. Hospital-physician vertical integration has increased ...