Health system fees doubled at Connecticut hospitals. What do they get in return?

Connecticut Public – Monday, June 23, 2025
By Maysoon Khan, Sujata Srinivasan

Many independent hospitals join health systems to save money on expenses such as malpractice insurance, accounting and legal work. Hospitals can also pool their purchasing power to negotiate better rates for drugs and supplies. Hospitals pay the health system for their share of those costs.

The model is now common across the United States, including in Connecticut, where most acute and general care hospitals are part of a larger system.

As affiliations and mergers bring more hospitals into those systems, however, the fees they pay to parent organizations are also growing.

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