Here's what motivates executives at provider organizations to integrate and what keeps them up at night:
Drivers:
- Perception that integration is essential to optimize quality, cost and health outcomes.
- Belief that healthcare system should be controlled and managed by providers--not insurance companies.
- Desire to control own destiny.
Fears:
- Employer pressure to reduce healthcare costs.
- Hospital-physician conflicts over system control.
- Threats from outside forces, like large national healthcare chains, physician management companies, insurance companies.
-- Source: Cashel Consulting