Ballad Health, a 20-hospital system in Tennessee and Virginia, benefits from the largest state-sanctioned hospital monopoly in the United States and is the only option for hospital care for a large swath of Appalachia.
Healthcare is so tricky because many of the insurers have near-monopolies. This encourages hospitals to merge to get more negotiating power and then you risk stuff like this happening
Healthcare is so tricky because many of the insurers have near-monopolies. This encourages hospitals to merge to get more negotiating power and then you risk stuff like this happening