What To Make Of The Steward-Optum Deal
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English - April 05, 2024 10:00 - 16 minutes - 11.6 MB - ★★★★ - 3 ratingsHealth & Fitness healthcare healthcare business healthcare policy healthcare news healthcare industry healthcare technology best healthcare podcasts us healthcare Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Steward Health Care is floundering, and its hospitals are in danger of closing. Now Optum has emerged as a buyer for Steward’s physician network, offering a financial lifeline but stirring up concerns by politicians and regulators.
Why is Optum buying physician practices? And is that good or bad news for the healthcare system?
TOPICS
(2:49) Steward Health Care's troubles and political concerns
(3:36) The Antitrust Act and the healthcare market
(6:32) Concerns about the for-profit and non-profit hospitals
(7:35) Redistributing hospital spending
(9:29) Should what happened with the Covid 19 pandemic make the case to keep more hospitals open?
(12:01) Impact of Optum's purchase of Atrius on healthcare services in Massachusetts
(13:55) Will Optum move towards value-based care?
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