title: Hospital Alignment: What Does It Mean.
authors.affiliation: Department of Mercy Hospital, University of New England, Portland, Maine gpome40@hotmail.com.
authors.forename: Gregory
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Pomeroy
mesh_terms: D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D003363:Cost Control; D003365:Costs and Cost Analysis; D018166:Health Care Reform; D018578:Hospital-Physician Relations; D006801:Humans; D008404:Massachusetts; D009985:Orthopedics / Q000191:economics*; D058991:Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act; D011787:Quality of Health Care; D012051:Reimbursement Mechanisms; D014481:United States