Managed Care Mag January 1, 2019
Insurers are busy merging with retailers and providers in vertical integration deals after attempts at horizontal combinations hit antitrust roadblocks.
While 2019 might not see the mega-mergers of 2018, “I don’t think it will be a slow year,” predicts Stephen Burrill, vice chairman and health care leader at Deloitte LLP.
Much of the action is expected to come from retailers linking up with payers or providers, or from health insurers or health care systems acquiring services such as home health care providers and rehabilitation facilities. Payers and providers have begun to realize “maybe this is a better answer if we work together and think about the patient holistically,” Burrill says. With that type of vertical integration, “you help manage money,”...
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