A working paper from researchers at the University of Pennsylvania and New York University is raising questions about the benefits of private equity in healthcare.
The paper recently published in SSRN...
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania issued an administrative complaint last week challenging the proposed hospital merger between two Philadelphia-area hospital...
All states have anti-trust statutes in place to preserve provider competition in the face of rapid consolidation, but more state governments are relying on price transparency, health plan contracting...
Private equity firms acquired 355 physician practices from 2013 to 2016, and the number of acquisitions rose exponentially during the period, according to research published in JAMA.
The research...
According to a new announcement, Harrington Health is currently negotiating a hospital merger deal with UMass Memorial. The Massachusetts-based health system voted to formally enter into a letter of...
Hospital merger and acquisition activity experienced major growth as physician medical groups slowed their activity in 2019, according to a recent report from PricewaterhouseCoopers’ (PwC) Health...
Hospital merger and acquisition (M&A) activity in 2019 remained “strong and steady,” with 92 transactions announced in 2019 compared to 90 the previous year, consulting firm Kaufman...
Beaumont Health and Summa Health signed a definitive hospital merger agreement to make Summa Health a subsidiary of Beaumont Health after the two organizations signed a letter of intent last...
After hitting a record high in 2017, hospital merger and acquisition activity has remained strong. And as a new decade dawns, hospitals and health systems are continuing to make deals in order to...
Many hospitals and health systems tout the quality of care benefits of merger and acquisition deals. But a new study from researchers at Harvard University found that hospital acquisitions had little...
After seven months of discussions, Gundersen Health System and Marshfield Clinic Health System nixed a hospital merger plan to create a rural health system of more than 2,000 clinicians across...
A lot can change in a year. From innovative technologies and value-based care to hospital mergers and acquisitions and new competitors, the healthcare industry has undergone yet another year of immense...
Healthcare venture capital investments continue to drive mergers and acquisitions (M&A) in the industry despite a shortage of common ground between CEOs and investors, a new survey...
UnityPoint Health and Sanford Health called off their hospital merger plans that would have created an $11 billion integrated system across 26 states and nine countries, according to an official...
California’s Department of Justice of Health recently denied the hospital merger request of Adventist Health System/West and St. Joseph Health System over concerns that the transaction would not...
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) issued orders to five health insurance companies and two health systems seeking data to study the effects of state-level regulatory regimes known as certificates of...
OSF HeathCare of Peoria, Illinois, recently announced that it signed a definitive hospital merger agreement with Little Company Mary Hospital and Health Care Centers based in Evergreen Park, Illinois....
Hospital merger and acquisition activity through the third quarter of 2019 is running slightly ahead of 2018 levels, according to a new report from Kaufman Hall.
The consulting firm recently reported...
Healthcare mergers and acquisitions are increasingly popular, but the average health system is leaving approximately $30 million per year on the table following deals, according to a new report from...
Healthcare providers and other industry leaders are still facing significant challenges with value-based care adoption, but provider incentives and market consolidation could help accelerate the...
