Month: September 2019

In recent decades, the healthcare industry has been largely consolidated under the management of fewer and larger entities [1]. The rapid rise of health-maintenance organizations (H.M.O.s)—with only three million patients enrolled in 1970 to eighty million represented by 1999—is attributed,…

Officially declared a public health emergency in October 2017, the Opioid Crisis has claimed nearly 100,000 lives from 2017 to 2018, accounting for the vast majority of U.S. drug overdoses in those years. In 2017 alone, an estimated 1.8 million…