“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...
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...
Providers going through a healthcare merger or acquisition (M&A) are less likely to be willing to stay at their organization and more likely to experience physician burnout, according to...
Hospitals and corporations now own nearly half of physician practices in the US, underscoring a long-standing trend of physician practice acquisitions by hospitals and other corporate entities, reveals...
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...
Vertical integration in healthcare, or direct ownership of physician practices by hospitals and health systems, has become increasingly popular. But this type of merger and acquisition is leading to...
Hospital merger and acquisition activity was significantly down in the first quarter of 2021 despite larger-than-average transaction sizes, according to a new report from Kaufman Hall.
Hospitals and...
A Superior Court of California judge has granted preliminary approval for a $575 million antitrust settlement Sutter Health proposed to resolve a case alleging that it engaged in anticompetitive...
A proposed healthcare merger between Philadelphia, Pennsylvania- based Einstein Healthcare Network and Jefferson Health in Pennsylvania and New Jersey has cleared the “final hurdle” now...
Two of Rhode Island’s predominant health systems are officially joining forces to create a healthier state with the help of Brown University.
In an announcement released yesterday, Lifespan and...
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has announced plans to study the effects physician group mergers and other recent healthcare facility consolidation deals have had on competition.
In the Jan. 14...
Despite delivering an economic blow to provider organizations, the pandemic confirmed the “strategic rationale” for healthcare mergers and acquisitions, according to consulting firm Kaufman...
Seattle, Washington-based Virginia Mason and CHI Franciscan based in Tacoma, Washington have announced that a healthcare merger deal is complete.
The finalization of the merger deal makes Virginia...
The top ten largest health systems now control nearly a quarter market share because of rapid health system consolidation and this trend is likely to continue as care delivery evolves, reveals a new...
A federal district court has thrown out a case brought on by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) alleging a proposed healthcare merger deal between Jefferson Health and Einstein Health Network would...
Just weeks after announcing a potential healthcare merger deal, Utah-based Intermountain Healthcare and Sanford Health based in South Dakota have called off all talks about the deal.
The announcement...
