Mergers & Acquisitions
The American Hospital Association (AHA) provides resources on hospital and health system mergers and acquisitions and how consolidation impacts the health care field.
There are a number of events this week focused on hospital mergers and acquisitions and financials that could generate national media attention, as well as interest from local media. More details on those events, as well as a number of efforts the AHA has already taken and additional resources to…
More than a year has now elapsed since our country began its battle against COVID-19. And throughout the course of the pandemic, hospitals’ and health systems’ crucial contributions to their respective communities has perhaps never been clearer. At the outset of the outbreak, hospitals and…
The financial health of the hospital field has been shaken during the pandemic. Health systems have demonstrated benefits. Mergers expand the capacity of smaller and rural hospitals. A focus on hospital consolidation ignores larger market trends. The cost of providing care continues to increase.…
Integrated health systems have the critical scale, resources and expertise needed to decrease costs and enhance quality for patients and communities.
This episode of PowerPlay InFocus tackles top questions regarding antitrust in the hospital sector and features a conversation between Melinda Reid Hatton, AHA general counsel; Debbie Feinstein, partner at Arnold & Porter and former head of the Bureau of Competition at the Federal Trade…
Based on empirical tests of their theory, DH&L find price increases of 6% to 10% attributable to certain cross-market hospital mergers. Underlying the theory and empirical results, however, are some questionable assumptions that appear to limit their applicability and validity.
A recent article in American Economic Review provides an “outdated and recycled take” on the effect of hospital consolidation on wages, writes AHA General Counsel Melinda Hatton.
A recent American Economic Review article provides an outdated and recycled take on the effect of hospital consolidation on wages. The article first appeared as a working paper several years ago.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit yesterday affirmed a district court decision rejecting an Albuquerque physician practice’s claims that Presbyterian Healthcare Services engaged in exclusionary or anticompetitive conduct under the Sherman Act.
“Unprecedented” conditions imposed by the California attorney general on Huntington Hospital’s proposed affiliation with Cedars-Sinai would jeopardize the community’s access to critical clinical programs and services and disadvantage Huntington and its patients compared with other hospitals in the…