For The Record August, 2019
What happens to master patient indexes when health care organizations meld into one?
For the past decade, hospital mergers and acquisitions have been on a steady incline. In 2017, it was another record-breaking year, continuing a trend that’s been ongoing over the past decade. There were fewer mergers in total in 2018, but the size of those mergers was larger, making it the year of the “megamerger.”
The merger and acquisition (M&A) wave, spurred by rising health care costs, shrinking profit margins, and the drive to participate in value-based reimbursements, seems, at least for the moment, to have calmed a bit. An article on HealthCareFinanceNews.com called the first quarter of 2019 “sluggish.”
However, this may be the lull before the...
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