Ben Stearns

Economist, Charles River Associates

Ben Stearns is an an economist at Charles River Associates (CRA). CRA consultants are experts in the area of hospital antitrust analysis and health care policy, having been retained by federal and state agencies and hospital systems to evaluate the effects of hospital transactions.

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Mergers & Acquisitions

Hospital Merger Benefits: An Econometric Analysis Revisited

By Sean May, Monica Noether, Ben Stearns

In this report we revisit our econometric analysis and include two additional years of data for 2018 and 2019 on cost, quality, and revenue outcomes from hospital transactions. The addition of these data allows us to measure the effects of 144 additional hospital acquisitions and also allows us to measure the effects of the hospital acquisitions we had previously included in our studies over a longer period of time.