Two Chicago area health systems are considering an official hospital merger after four years of engaging in a strategic partnership.
Palos Health and Loyola Medicine jointly announced on Jan. 21, 2019...
The average size in revenue of the sellers in hospital merger and acquisition deals grew at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 13.8 percent since 2008, reaching $409 million in 2018, consulting...
Increasing financial pressures are pushing providers and even non-provider entities to engage in healthcare merger and acquisition (M&A) activity. Value-based reimbursement, shrinking hospital...
Hospital mergers produce even greater efficiencies and savings when the acquired facilities are in close proximity to each other, a new report shows.
The Charles River Associates report prepared for...
The American Hospital Association (AHA) is saying that the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) strategy for evaluating hospital mergers and acquisitions is “is overbroad, does not properly...
California-based Catholic Health Initiatives and Colorado-based Dignity Health recently announced a one-month delay of their hospital merger deal.
The two health systems are moving the expected...
Attorneys General in California and Massachusetts recently approved two separate hospital merger deals. But the approvals came with a set of special conditions the health systems must meet to...
Partners HealthCare, the largest hospital system in Massachusetts, recently halted healthcare merger talks with local insurer Harvard Pilgrim Health Care over concerns the deal would not earn...
“The overwhelming majority of hospitals and health systems are not the drivers in contract negotiations with commercial health insurers,” the American Hospital Association (AHA) recently...
Healthcare merger and acquisition activity was still trending up in the third quarter of 2018, but deal value dipped, the most recent US Health Services Deals Insights report from...
Two major non-profit health systems in Texas recently announced their plans for a hospital merger, which is expected to advance cost-effective patient care in the state.
Baylor Scott & White...
Energy and Commerce Committee leaders are calling on the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) to settle the debate on whether hospital mergers and acquisitions raise prices for patients.
In a...
Mercy Health of Ohio and Maryland-based Bon Secours Health System recently announced the completion of their hospital merger deal establishing one of the largest hospital chains and Catholic health...
Hospitals only save approximately 1.5 percent annually on common expenses in the healthcare supply chain after a hospital merger, new research shows.
The new working paper from the National Bureau of...
The recent uptick in healthcare merger and acquisition (M&A) activity is leading to significant market consolidation, particularly among providers organizations, a recent Commonwealth Fund analysis...
Improving the integration of care across the continuum is the top driver of healthcare mergers and acquisitions, according to a recent Premier Inc. survey.
The survey of 45 healthcare C-suite leaders...
Healthcare stakeholders announced 255 healthcare merger and acquisition (M&A) deals in the second quarter of 2018, a new report from the Health Research Institute at PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC)...
As value-based reimbursement puts financial pressure on providers, healthcare organizations are striving for efficiency, cost control, and sustainability. An increasingly popular strategy to fulfill all these goals is to engage in hospital...
The proposed hospital merger between Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Lahey Health is facing pushback from the Massachusetts Attorney General despite a previous endorsement from a key state...
PwC’s Health Research Institute (HRI) predicts medical costs for employers to grow 6 percent in 2019 as healthcare mergers and more convenient care access options drive up healthcare costs and...
