With more hospitals under financial pressure, healthcare mergers and acquisitions may help to keep doors open and maintain access to care, among other benefits, according to a new analysis.
The...
Healthcare merger and acquisition (M&A) activity is hitting a new stride: fewer, but larger deals.
That is according to the findings from consulting firm Kaufman Hall’s M&A Quarterly...
Jefferson Health and Einstein Healthcare Network have finalized their healthcare merger, creating an 18-hospital system that will provide care to Philadelphia residents.
In addition to serving...
Leading hospital groups have backed a proposed hospital merger deal between two New Jersey-based non-profit systems, arguing that a federal challenge of the proposed merger is based on a flawed...
Intermountain Healthcare and SCL Health have signed a letter of intent to merge their nonprofit organizations, creating a unified health system that aims to improve access to care across six...
Beaumont Health and Spectrum Health have finalized their healthcare merger plan with a formal integration agreement and have committed to providing accessible, affordable, and quality healthcare to...
The American Hospital Association (AHA) reaffirmed its previous findings that hospital mergers and acquisitions result in reduced healthcare costs and improve care quality.
In 2019, the AHA published...
A group of North Carolina residents have filed a healthcare antitrust lawsuit against a local hospital recently acquired by HCA Healthcare.
The lawsuit acquired by Axios alleges that Mission Health,...
In a letter to the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) Antitrust Division, AHA expressed concern over the implications of UnitedHealth Group’s $8 billion acquisition of Change Healthcare, which...
A district court recently granted a preliminary injunction against a proposed hospital merger between New Jersey-based Hackensack Meridian Health and Englewood Health.
The organizations jointly...
Medicare funds are dwindling and revenues are declining. This financial strain could result in closures and acquisitions, paving the way for hospital cost shifting.
A Harvard Medical School research...
Healthcare mergers and acquisitions have promised to bring lower costs, higher quality, and better access to care. But a new executive order is challenging the rapid pace of consolidation in...
“There’s no antitrust impact at all,” Davis continued. Davis told The Augusta Chronicle that the deal will likely be ready for review by the Georgia attorney general’s office by...
Most self-insured employers in the US lack the market power necessary to take part in hospital price negotiations, according to a study published in the American Journal of Managed Care (AJMC)....
An executive order has serious implications for healthcare consolidation, and specifically, hospital mergers and acquisitions.
The President signed the executive order on Friday in an effort to boost...
Healthcare merger and acquisition (M&A) activity was minimal in Q2, but total transacted revenue rose as health systems focused on acquiring smaller hospitals and strengthening regional...
LifePoint Health is seeking to bolster its post-acute care network by acquiring Louisville, Kentucky-based Kindred Healthcare in a health system merger deal slated to close at the end of this...
Michigan-based Beaumont Health and Spectrum Health have announced that they plan to merge to create the largest health system in the state.
The announcement dropped yesterday said the two health...
One Medical has announced its plans to acquire human-centric, value-based primary care group Iora Health in an all-stock transaction valued at approximately $2.1 billion.
The agreement will allow...
Sentara Healthcare and Cone Health have called off a planned healthcare merger after dozens of public comments poured in raising concerns about hospital consolidation and its impact on prices.
The...
