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Mergers & Acquisitions
Hospital Merger Benefits: An Econometric Analysis Revisited
In this report we revisit our econometric analysis and include two additional years of data for 2018 and 2019 on cost, quality, and revenue outcomes from hospital transactions. The addition of these data allows us to measure the effects of 144 additional hospital acquisitions and also allows us to measure the effects of the hospital acquisitions we had previously included in our studies over a longer period of time.
Mergers & Acquisitions
Hospital Merger Benefits: An Econometric Analysis Revisited Executive Summary
This is the third analysis by Charles River Associates (CRA) showing that recent hospital acquisitions reduce costs and lead to improved performance on important quality indicators without an increase in revenue that may signal enhanced market power. All three analyses found that hospital acquisitions can generate substantial benefits.