HealthLeaders Media April 1, 2018
A surge of large-scale healthcare mergers suggest the calculus and goals may have changed within the healthcare industry.
Today’s mergers are less a play on market domination and negotiating leverage with health plans, and more of a bid for vertical integration and development of a high-value provider network.
Several sizeable healthcare mergers have been announced over the past year. Dignity Health and Catholic Health Initiatives signed a definitive agreement as 2017 closed. Chicago-based Advocate Health Care plans to merge with Milwaukee’s Aurora Health Care.
Even Seattle’s Providence St. Joseph Health, which was created by a major merger announced just 18 months ago, has been rumored to be in talks with Ascension Health about a merger that would dwarf all other...
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