Becker's Healthcare August 17, 2020
Five things to know about consolidation among surgery centers and physicians:
1. Provider consolidation into vertically integrated health systems increased “substantially” from 2016-18, while horizontal consolidation of hospitals and health systems “grew modestly,” according to an August 2020 study published in Health Affairs.
2. The ASC space is ripe for facility-level consolidation, according to VMG Health. The ASC market didn’t see any platform-level transactions in 2019, but consolidation continued in the fractured sector. About 71 percent of ASCs remain independent, leaving room for further facility-level consolidation.
“We are continuing to see themes from 2018 play out in 2019 and into 2020,” VMG Health analysts concluded. “The expectation is that there would be further consolidation within the ASC market with a...
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