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8 trends in healthcare mergers & acquisitions for 2017
8 trends in healthcare mergers & acquisitions for 2017
How Do Healthcare Mergers and Acquisitions Impact Patients?
Healthcare merger and acquisition deals impact patient care access, care quality, and cost, but the jury is still out on whether those are positive or negative impacts.
How to be Prepared for Mergers and Acquisitions in Healthcare
With mergers and acquisitions in healthcare, health system investments can be spread across the enterprise system after the transaction. Do M&A deals actually achieve this outcome? With thorough planning and execution, they can.
3 tips for successful hospital alliances, mergers
Healthcare mergers--and even non-merger alliances--are picking up steam, but to pull off a successful integration, there are a few key steps hospital leaders must follow.
Healthcare Mega-Mergers Will Drive Prices: Tips for Benefits Professionals
Healthcare mega-mergers have created several conflicts of interest, making it important for benefits professionals to take the caveat emptor or “buyer beware” approach. This is especially true at a time when we’re seeing unprecedented consolidation in the health insurance industry.
How Digital Strategies Are Re-Defining Patient Acquisition Marketing
The patient acquisition process has been at center stage of any healthcare marketing strategy for some time. It's the single biggest revenue factor
Why hospital mergers are destined to fail
Few organizations in any industry find consolidation and downsizing attractive.
Healthcare payer mergers: Pros & cons
Consolidation in the insurance industry could allow insurers to bargain with providers on more equal terms.
Why vertical mergers will continue to dominate health care
Insurers are busy merging with retailers and providers in vertical integration deals after attempts at horizontal combinations hit antitrust roadblocks.
What merger mania means for health care
Cigna's purchase of pharmacy benefits manager Express Scripts is the latest deal in the rapidly changing health care industry.
How merger mania will impact the healthcare industry
There are both advantages and disadvantages to scale, experts note.
Trends in Hospital Acquisition of Physician Practices
As the reimbursement model continues the shift from a volume-based to value-based system, physician participation in meeting quality and cost-saving targets will require a greater nexus to methods of physician compensation. In an increasingly competitive environment, it may be difficult to meet the need for quality care without a carefully selected and motivated physician network.
Do Hospital Mergers Put Patients at Risk?
Docs must manage practice changes, new systems, and new patients
What do carrier mergers mean for the industry?
What impact will Aetna-Humana Centene-Health Net and other recent mergers have on the benefits world?
6 Tips for Healthcare Companies to Handle Acquisitions
When a healthcare company faces an acquisition, topics from employee concerns to policy need to be covered. Find out how to build a plan for the situation.
Healthcare mergers pose a patient safety risk, study finds
Providers may not be fully addressing the patient safety concerns that come with consolidation.
Hospitals employing higher number of doctors as acquisition of practices grows
The healthcare landscape may be experiencing a shift as both the number of doctors employed by hospitals and the acquisition of physician-owned practices by hospitals increases.
Do You Understand Due Diligence In Physician Practice Acquisitions?
Often in the sale of a physician’s practice, the owner of the selling practice (the “Selling Practice”) may desire to structure the transaction as what some refer to as a “handshake deal” – using minimal documentation and providing minimal diligence for review. Although this may be advantageous for the Selling Practice and its owner (depending on …
M&A for Small Hospitals: Trends, Considerations and Challenges to Overcome
What should small hospitals consider if they see a merger and acquisition in their future? An expert shares four tips.
Vital Signs Show Market for Health-Care Deals In the Pink
Deal making among health-care companies continues to improve the well-being of the mergers-and-acquisitions market.
