Hospital Field Realignment
The American Hospital Association supports H.R. 5645, the Standard Merger and Acquisition Reviews Through Equal Rules Act of 2018, also known as the SMARTER Act.
“The ‘H’ in the future is going to look different,” Pollack said at the panel, which was part of the University of Miami School of Business Administration’s conference on “The Business of Health Care: What’s Next?."
Filed: March 29, 2018 | People of the State of California Ex Rel. Xavier Becerra, Plaintiff, vs. Sutter Health, Defendant
The hearing today by the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations on the impact of health care consolidation presented a one-sided perspective on the benefits of hospital mergers. The group presenting was untethered from the realities of managing a high-quality hospital system responsive to the…
In an op-ed piece responding to a USA Today editorial critical of hospital mergers, AHA President and CEO Rick Pollack explains how rapid changes in the larger health care field are leading hospitals and health systems to explore new ways to meet patients’ needs. “The decision by CVS to acquire…
Catholic Health Initiatives and Dignity Health today announced that they have signed a definitive agreement to combine ministries and create a new, nonprofit Catholic health system.
This report outlines two distinct analyses of the questions relating to the benefits achieved through hospital combinations and the “merger-specificity”² of those benefits.
Suggestions on Framing the Benefits of Hospital Mergers
Monica Noether, Ph.D. and Sean May, Ph.D.
January 2017