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Corporate Ownership, Health System Affiliation, and Market Concentration of Home Health Agencies

JAMA Network Open 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2025.28258

August 21, 2025 at 11:00 AM EDT

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This cross-sectional study examines how growing health system affiliation and corporate ownership models may potentially contribute to home health agency (HHA) market concentration.

Corresponding Author: Yucheng Hou, PhD, MPP, Department of Management, Policy and Community Health, School of Public Health, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, 1200 Pressler St, Houston, TX 77030-3900 (yucheng.hou@uth.tmc.edu).

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