Mergers & Acquisitions

In an AHA Stat Blog post, AHA General Counsel Melinda Hatton and others point out a number of flaws in a study on hospital consolidation and quality, and the way the news media covered it.
Chief among the flaws in the most recent study on hospital consolidation published in the New England Journal of Medicine was that its conclusions were informed by preconceived notions of what the authors thought the data should show, which was then undermined further by the arbitrary choices made…
Centene Corporation has completed its acquisition of WellCare Health Plans.
A study on hospital mergers and quality described in a recent article in The Wall Street Journal uses data that is not sufficiently up to date and therefore of minimal value for assessing the benefits of hospital mergers.
In addition to improving quality, mergers produce important cost savings and do not increase revenues.
A recent Medicare Payment Advisory Committee discussion on consolidation within the health care field “presented a myopic view of the purported dangers of hospital mergers to the exclusion of their many benefits,” AHA said today in a letter to the commission.
The American Hospital Association's comments on the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission’s (MedPAC) discussions on consolidation within the health care field as well as graduate medical education. As the Commission continues its deliberations, the AHA shares observations related to…
The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission yesterday discussed how health care provider consolidation affects prices, costs and Medicare payments, among other areas.
A new study from Georgetown University’s Center on Health Insurance Reforms (CHIR) is another one-sided view of the changing health care landscape that has several key limitations that make it a less than useful view of hospital mergers. 
The Federal Trade Commission has ordered two health systems and five health insurance companies to provide data for a study on the effects of certificates of public advantage on health care prices, quality, access and innovation; and the impact of hospital consolidation on employee wages.