The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) recently filed a lawsuit in federal court to prevent a $350 million healthcare acquisition deal involving two Memphis, Tennessee-based hospitals owned by Tenet...
For many voters, the 2020 presidential election was less about red and blue and more about white, as in the white coat.
Healthcare was a dominant issue in the race between the incumbent President Donald J. Trump and Democratic runner Vice...
So far, 2020 has been a transformational year in more ways than one. While the COVID-19 pandemic forced the healthcare industry to find new ways to deliver high-quality care to patients during a...
Intermountain Healthcare and Sanford Health have announced a healthcare merger deal to improve access to high value healthcare across the US.
Headquartered in Utah, the combined organizations will...
Atrium Health recently announced the completion of a healthcare merger deal with Wake Forest Baptist Health to create a “next-generation academic health system.”
The health systems agreed...
The pace of healthcare merger and acquisition activity continues to be unhindered by the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the latest M&A Quarterly Activity Report from Kaufman Hall.
The report...
Advocate Aurora Health and Michigan’s Beaumont Health will not move forward with a proposed healthcare merger deal.
The health systems announced late last week that they have agreed to end...
The Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC’s) Bureau of Economics recently unveiled a revamped Merger Retrospective Program that will expand and formalize the Bureau’s retrospective research...
Hospitals acquired by private equity firms are either charging more for common services, such as inpatient stays and emergency department visits, reducing operating costs, or both after acquisition,...
Provider consolidation into vertically integrated health systems increased substantially from 2016 to 2018, according to a recent Datawatch study published in Health Affairs.
More than half of...
While COVID-19 has resulted in substantial revenue losses for healthcare providers, the pandemic has had less of a dramatic impact on hospital merger and acquisition activity. In fact, the crisis has...
Two of the largest health systems in the Midwest – Advocate Aurora Health and Beaumont Health – are exploring a possible healthcare merger deal.
“Following approval last week by the...
Nearly a year ago, Rhode Island’s two largest hospital groups decided to walk away from healthcare merger and acquisition talks. But the recent COVID-19 crisis is prompting health system leaders...
Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian is seeking to cut ties with Providence Health nearly four years after the Renton, Washington-based health system merged with an organization with which Hoag was...
A planned hospital merger deal between Beaumont Health and Summa Health will wait until after the COVID-19 crisis, according to Beaumont’s CEO John Fox.
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Three-quarters of provider executives believe their corporate services spending could decrease without impacting quality of care or efficiency, according to a recent survey of over 100 hospital and...
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...
