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The National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) Center of Excellence defines a health system as a group of healthcare organizations (e.g., physician practices, hospitals, skilled nursing facilities) that are jointly owned or managed (foundation models are considered a form of joint management).
Healthcare in the United States is largely provided by private sector healthcare facilities, and paid for by a combination of public programs, private insurance, and out-of-pocket payments. The U.S. is the only developed country without a system of universal healthcare, and a significant proportion of its population lacks health insurance.
Overview of the U.S. Healthcare System Infrastructure. The NHQDR tracks care delivered by providers in many types of healthcare settings. The goal is to provide high-quality healthcare that is culturally and linguistically sensitive, patient centered, timely, affordable, well coordinated, and safe.
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The U.S. health system is a mix of public and private, for-profit and nonprofit insurers and health care providers. The federal government provides funding for the national Medicare program for adults 65 and older and some people with disabilities, as well as for various programs for veterans and low-income people, including Medicaid and the ...
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A health system promotes, restores and maintains health. It is a complex whole made up of all the actions, actors, resources, and mechanisms involved in delivering health
Our study (1) enumerates the number of health systems in the United States; (2) characterizes systems by key structural attributes such as size, ownership, system type, and geographic presence; and (3) reports system penetration among hospitals, beds, and physicians.
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Health care in the United States is currently a unique hybrid, multiple-payer system, but with elements of single payer (i.e., Medicare, although beneficiaries also contribute through premiums), publicly subsidized private payers (e.g., employer-sponsored health insurance), socialized medicine (e.g., Department of Veterans Affairs, in which ...
