Stitching Health Care Together

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Stitching Health Care Together

Dr. Hany Haddad and his partners saw the writing on the wall.

It was getting more costly and more complex to run their sleep therapy practice at the same time payments from public and private insurance programs were at best flat.

So in July, Haddad and his 15 partners sold their practice to Community Health Network - becoming some of the 250 physicians this year that have become employees or else signed "integration" agreements with Commu...

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