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.
Integrated health systems have the critical scale, resources and expertise needed to decrease costs and enhance quality for patients and communities.
This episode of PowerPlay InFocus tackles top questions regarding antitrust in the hospital sector and features a conversation between Melinda Reid Hatton, AHA general counsel; Debbie Feinstein, partner at Arnold…
Based on empirical tests of their theory, DH&L find price increases of 6% to 10% attributable to certain cross-market hospital mergers. Underlying the theory and empirical results, however, are some questionable assumptions that appear to limit their applicability and validity.
A recent article in American Economic Review provides an “outdated and recycled take” on the effect of hospital consolidation on wages, writes AHA General Counsel Melinda Hatton.
A recent American Economic Review article provides an outdated and recycled take on the effect of hospital consolidation on wages. The article first appeared as a working paper several years ago.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit yesterday affirmed a district court decision rejecting an Albuquerque physician practice’s claims that Presbyterian Healthcare Services engaged in exclusionary or anticompetitive conduct under the Sherman Act.
“Unprecedented” conditions imposed by the California attorney general on Huntington Hospital’s proposed affiliation with Cedars-Sinai would jeopardize the community’s access to critical clinical programs and services and disadvantage Huntington and its patients compared with other hospitals in the…
AHA urged the Department of Justice to investigate thoroughly UnitedHealth Group’s proposed acquisition of Change Healthcare because it threatens to reduce competition for the sale of health care information technology services to hospitals and other health care providers.
AHA letter to the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice, expressing concern with UnitedHealth Group’s proposed acquisition of Change Healthcare.
A recent JAMA article, “recycles old and tired arguments about hospital consolidation without any examination of the impact of consolidation in the commercial health insurance industry or related health care sectors that promise to have a profound impact on the cost, quality and accessibility of…