Hospital Field Realignment
After more than a decade of transforming health care for its roughly 1 million workers and huge and loyal customer base, Walmart plans to play an even larger role. Marcus Osborne, vice president of transformation and wellness for the retail giant, made that point clear in a recent talk with the…
CVS Health is rapidly incorporating Aetna into its business and will open the first in a series of concept stores in February in the Houston market to test its consumer-centric retail engagement model that can target Aetna’s members. Renton, Wash.-based Providence St. Joseph Health unveiled a…
Studies Continued
A Research Report: Hospital M&A: When done well, M&A can achieve valuable outcomes: Deloitte Center for Health Solutions and the Healthcare Financial Management Association
The Federal Trade Commission’s approach to reviewing hospital mergers “is overbroad, does not properly credit the many pro-consumer benefits of hospital transactions, and ignores key realities of the marketplace,” according to an analysis submitted to the agency for a series of FTC hearings on…
Hospital mergers result in even greater efficiencies and savings when the acquired hospitals are in close proximity.
Since the release of our study Hospital Merger Benefits: Views from Hospital Leaders and Econometric Analysis, 2 two closely related studies have been released.
A new AHA report highlights some of the significant changes and future challenges that impact hospitals and health systems.
AHA Senior Vice President Melinda Reid Hatton examines why a recent study on hospital consolidation from the Center for American Progress misses the mark.
It took nearly a year to complete the transaction, but CVS Health has closed on its acquisition of Aetna, creating what many analysts believe will be a transformational force in health care.
“When Hospitals Merge, Patients Often Pay More” doesn’t paint a full picture of the root cause of higher health care costs to consumers.