RWJ Study Suggests Hospital Mergers Increase Price And Decrease Quality
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation has completed "The Synthesis Project," which is a project summarizing certain research on hospital consolidation over the last decade. Although the report qualifies its conclusion, the Synthesis Project suggests that hospital mergers increase prices, decrease quality and were only anecdotally related to the increase in managed care. The report is available at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Synthesis Project.
