Mergers & Acquisitions
The 黑料正能量 Association (AHA) provides resources on hospital and health system mergers and acquisitions and how consolidation impacts the health care field.
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 鈥減resented a myopic view of the purported dangers of hospital mergers to the exclusion of their many benefits,鈥 AHA said today in a letter to the commission.
The 黑料正能量 Association's comments on the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission鈥檚 (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鈥
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鈥檚 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.
In this edition of Hacking Healthcare, we begin by reviewing the troubling news that 10 hospitals were impacted by ransomware last week. Next, we briefly explore why ransomware, despite constant presence in news headlines, is not as well understood as might be hoped. Finally, we examine a survey鈥
On this AHA Advancing Health podcast, Monica Noether and Sean May, both vice presidents at Charles River Associates, talk about a report they authored that found hospital mergers decrease costs, expand care and improve the ability to address social determinants of health.