Physician practice acquisitions increased during the COVID-19 pandemic, resulting in nearly three-quarters of physicians being employed by hospitals, health systems, or other corporate entities,...
Medium and large hospitals with low profit margins were more likely to experience ownership changes between 2016 and 2021 compared to their smaller and more profitable counterparts, according to a new...
New Jersey-based Hackensack Meridian Health and Englewood Health have terminated their hospital merger agreement after a federal appeals court blocked the deal from moving forward.
In March 2022, the...
Healthcare merger and acquisition activity hit a record low during the first quarter of 2022, with the industry seeing only 12 transactions totaling $2.95 billion, according to a report from Kaufman...
Intermountain Healthcare and SCL Health have finalized their healthcare merger to create one of the largest nonprofit health systems in the country.
The merged health system consists of 33...
Change Healthcare and UnitedHealth Group’s diversified health services company, Optum, have announced that they will extend their healthcare merger agreement to December 31, 2022.
UnitedHealth...
Hospitals saw higher operating margins, decreases in costs per adjusted discharges, and increased inpatient utilization following private equity acquisitions, according to a Health Affairs study sent...
The American Hospital Association (AHA) has asked the US Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to revise hospital merger guidelines to better account for the benefits...
A federal appeals court has blocked the proposed hospital merger between New Jersey-based Hackensack Meridian Health and Englewood Health, stating that the merger would hurt competition and increase...
Three healthcare providers—Fresenius Health Partners, the value-based care division of Fresenius Medical Care North America, InterWell Health, and Cricket Health—have entered into a...
Receiving care from higher-priced hospitals only led to better health outcomes when the facility was in a relatively unconcentrated market. There was no association between high prices and mortality at...
The Department of Justice (DOJ) has filed a civil lawsuit to block the merger between UnitedHealth Group and Change Healthcare.
The complaint states that the proposed $13 billion transaction in which...
Rhode Island Attorney General Peter Neronha has rejected the application for the proposed healthcare merger between health systems Lifespan and Care New England.
In a 150-page decision, Attorney...
After nearly two years in a global pandemic, the healthcare industry has faced numerous hurdles. But healthcare chief financial officers (CFOs) have high hopes for the upcoming year and plan to improve...
Value-based care platform Signify Health has signed an agreement to acquire Caravan Health and aims to increase participation in value-based payment models and improve patient outcomes.
The merger...
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the Justice Department’s Antitrust Division announced plans to modify current merger guidelines across all industries to prevent anticompetitive...
Hospital mergers and acquisitions were down in 2021 as industry leaders faced another year battling the COVID-19 pandemic, new research from Kaufman Hall shows.
There were 49 transactions announced by...
California-based Providence and Hoag have announced that they will end their affiliation established about a decade ago.
“Although we are formally parting ways, we will have other opportunities...
R1 RCM Inc. has announced that it will acquire the cloud-based healthcare revenue intelligence company Cloudmed in an all-stocks transaction expected to close in the second quarter of 2022.
Cloudmed...
Health outcomes and satisfaction rates at NYU Langone Hospital–Brooklyn, previously known as Lutheran Medical Center, have improved after a hospital merger deal with NYU Langone in 2016,...
