Insider Intelligence August 19, 2021
The news: The American Hospital Association (AHA) wrote a letter to the Department of Health and Human Services, Department of Justice (DOJ), and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), arguing that hospital mergers don’t negatively affect quality of care or pricing and can actually result in cost savings and improve care quality.
For context, the AHA represents around 5,000 hospitals and health systems in the US.
The bigger picture: Healthcare M&As have been ramping up, especially as organizations look to build out their digital health capabilities—but it’s raising anti-competitive alarms.
Over the last year, there have been more and more mega-mergers in healthcare: e.g., Optum’s $13 billion acquisition of healthcare analytics co Change Healthcare and Teladoc’s $18.5 billion acquisition of...
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