Physician ownership of facilities and joint ventures with major chains also increased substantially from 2005 to 2019.

The hospital associations that lobby to keep this medical monopoly in place like to claim that the data on CONs is mixed. It’s not. Nearly 90% of statistical tests performed on CON laws show ...

Ballad Health was granted the nation’s largest state-sanctioned hospital monopoly in 2018. ... Osborne went to the nearest hospital, Bristol Regional Medical Center.

In large part because of the medical field’s control over reimbursement, nonphysician and nonprofessional care systems and their workers have been chronically underutilized and underpaid.

Washington State University (WSU) is hoping to start a new medical school to help alleviate the problem. But the University of Washington (UW), which until earlier this year had a monopoly on state ...

The Medical Monopoly on Mental Health and the Flexner Report How the 1910 report suppressed holistic and alternative psychiatric care. Posted February 24, 2025 | Reviewed by Michelle Quirk ...

Emergency medical attention provided by trained paramedics began in 1981, which is also when the city began charging for the service. That was when the public utility model still used today was ...