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“Hospital Mergers Kill”: An Economists’ Exercise in Reality Distortion

The Health Care Blog

The data were derived from the Healthcare Cost Institute, a repository of commercial insurance claims information from three of the four largest commercial health insurers, United Healthcare, Humana and Aetna (a subsidiary of struggling pharmacy giant CVS) plus Blue Cross/Blue Shield. This large overage was not explained by the authors.