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NewsHealthcare M&A activity slows down
In keeping with the movement toward coordinated care and consolidation among healthcare organizations comes a report that the healthcare industry saw 217 merger and acquisition deals worth $58.4 Read more...
ACO conundrum: Market consolidation could push prices up
What can be done to prevent accountable care organizations from becoming monopolies that push prices up? That's a question government officials are wrestling with, the Fiscal Times reports. At least Read more...
Merger will create new Michigan healthcare system
After nearly 18 months at the negotiating table, Battle Creek Health System in Michigan announced it will create a new regional healthcare system with Kalamazoo-based Bronson Healthcare Group, which Read more...
New Hampshire hospitals plan to proceed with affiliation despite AG objection
To the surprise of executives at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Health and Catholic Medical Center, New Hampshire Attorney General Michael Delaney did not approve their proposed affiliation, saying that the Read more...
Hospital system's annual revenues could jump past $5B with purchase of nonprofit
Vanguard Health Systems Inc. has signed a letter of intent to buy nonprofit Detroit Medical Center (DMC) in a deal that could push the Nashville, Tenn.-based hospital chain's annual revenues past $5 Read more...
FTC, DoJ consider new merger guidelines
Are you considering a merger? Be advised that the antitrust rules for such deals may be changing right out from under you. The Federal Trade Commission and Department of Justice have decided to hold Read more...
American Hospital Association wants tougher reviews of health-plan mergers
The American Hospital Association--and the AMA, for that matter--isn't too happy with the rate of health plan mergers taking place in the country in recent years. Fighting such mergers hasn't been Read more...
If health plan profits keep falling, selloffs may begin
Health plan profits are falling, and given the trends in the U.S. economy and healthcare costs generally, this trend is likely to linger for a while. And if falling profits remain a fact of life for Read more...
| Press ReleasesDelnor and CDH Sign Definitive AgreementDELNOR HEALTH SYSTEM AND CENTRAL DUPAGE HEALTHSIGN DEFINITIVE MERGER AGREEMENT; SEEK REGULATORY APPROVALS WINFIELD, Ill., and GENEVA, Ill., December 17, 2010 - Delnor Health System (Delnor) and Read more >> |
