How Megaproviders Keep Health Care Costs High

Almost everyone agrees about the urgent need to reform health care in the United States. But authors David Dranove and Wharton health care management professor Lawton R. Burns argue we’re overlooking the most pervasive cause of our costly and underperforming system: megaproviders, the expansive health care organizations they say have become the face of American medicine.

In Big Med: Megaproviders and the High Cost of Health Care in America, Dranove and Burns examine the rise of these megaproviders and their role in the deterioration of health care — as well as its rising costs. They reveal that these megaproviders are ever present: Your local hospital is likely part of one, as are your doctors.

Brett LoGiurato, senior editor at Wharton School Press, sat down with Dranove and Burns to discuss their book.

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