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.
This report provides key evidence as to why site-neutral payment policies are misguided, highlighting the substantial negative impact these policies and new legislative proposals would have on access to the care that the nation’s hospitals and health systems provide.
Private equity, physician groups and health insurers have acquired the vast majority of physician practices during the last five years. Percentage of acquired physicians by type, 2019-2023. Private equity: 65%; Physician Medical Groups: 14%; Health Insurers: 11%; Hospitals and Health Systems: 6%;…
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Mergers and acquisitions are important tools that some hospitals use to manage financial pressures and increase access to care for patients, AHA told the Senate Finance Committee in a statement submitted for a hearing June 8 on consolidation and corporate ownership in health care.
American Hospital Association (AHA) statement for the record to the Senate Finance Committee to provide the hospital perspective on how hospital mergers and acquisitions can expand and preserve access to quality care.
Policymakers and others have expressed growing concern about the trend of physician practices becoming affiliated with hospitals and health systems.
The Senate Finance Committee will hold a hearing June 8 at 10 a.m. on issues that affect hospitals and health systems.
The AHA, joined by five other hospital associations, urged the Federal Trade Commission to abandon its unprecedented policy to enforce the Hart-Scott-Rodino Act against state-approved mergers and acquisitions, specifically with Louisiana Children’s Medical Center’s state-approved merger with HCA…
Mergers and acquisitions are a vital tool to keep financially struggling hospitals open and allow hospitals and health systems to reduce costs, improve quality and better serve patients where they live, AHA told the House Ways and Means Health Subcommittee May 17 in a statement submitted for a…
AHA statement for the record to the Ways and Means Subcommittee on Health to provide the hospital perspective on how hospital mergers and acquisitions can expand and preserve access to quality care.