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The Adventures of the Purloined Bequest, the Resident Heiress, and the Hidden Hospital System
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8:16 AM
The game is afoot again. A series of recent articles in the media described a series of cases whose mysterious interrelationships Sherlock ...
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accountability
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anechoic effect
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concentration of power
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Continuum Health Partners
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hospital systems
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mergers
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Mismanagement
The Push Back Continues: the Mayor of Pittsburgh Sues UPMC Claiming it is No "Public Charity"
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11:55 AM
There is another indication that push back against the power of large health care organizations is getting more significant. In February, 20...
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concentration of power
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logical fallacies
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non-profit organizations
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oligopoly
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public relations
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UPMC
The Pittsburgh Experiment - II - Another Echo of the Fall of AHERF
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8:50 PM
We recently started a series of posts about the battle for domination of health care in western Pennsylvania. The contenders are the UPMC ...
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AHERF
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anechoic effect
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concentration of power
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Highmark
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UPMC
The Pittsburgh Experiment - I - Caught in the Crossfire
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9:30 AM
In our increasingly dysfunctional health care system, patients, health care professionals and the public are often caught in the crossfire b...
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cross fire
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Highmark
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marketing
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UPMC
"It's All Been Done Before," If We Only Could Remember What it Was - the AHERF Example
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11:25 AM
A big Wall Street Journal article by Anna Wilde Mathews featured the latest wave of mergers affecting large health care organizations. Larg...
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