Healthcare DIVE December 7, 2021
Dive Brief:
- An examination of states’ merger review powers found states that had more robust authority challenged a higher percentage of hospital mergers compared to states with less authority.
- Researchers reviewed a 10-year time period in which 862 hospital mergers were proposed and just 42, or 5%, were challenged by states. A significant chunk of those deals faced challenges in eight states where merger review authority was more robust. Specifically, those eight states challenged 71% of the overall 42 challenges.
- Still, even after the challenges, hospital prices in these eight states continued to rise at similar rates as other states. That’s likely because these select states “allowed mergers to proceed with conditions that did not adequately address competitive concerns,”...
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