RevCycle Intelligence December 6, 2016
Jacqueline Belliveau

A HFMA report stated that value-based care and price transparency will add value to hospital mergers, including lower prices for consumers.

Healthcare system and hospital mergers will likely increase as new value-based care models emerge, according to a recent Healthcare Financial Management Association (HFMA) report. But the rise in value-based reimbursement and price transparency will improve value of the mergers to consumers.

Some healthcare system and hospital mergers have increased prices for consumers because the merged organizations have greater market share. However, the HFMA report indicated that risk-based reimbursement contracts and healthcare consumerism will incentivize merged entities to lower prices.

“Consolidation is a trend that’s here to stay,” Joseph J. Fifer, FHFMA, CPA, HFMA President and CEO, stated in a...

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Topics: ACA (Affordable Care Act), ACO (Accountable Care), ASC, CMS, Employer, Health IT, Health System / Hospital, Healthcare System, HHS, Investments, MACRA, Market Research, Medicaid, Medicare, Medicare Advantage, Mergers & Acquisitions / JV, Patient / Consumer, Payer, Physician, Population Health Mgmt, Pricing / Spending, Primary care, Provider, Radiology, RCM (Revenue Cycle Mgmt), Retail care, Self-insured, Specialist care, Telehealth, Urgent care, Value Based
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