Mergers & Acquisitions
The American Hospital Association (AHA) provides resources on hospital and health system mergers and acquisitions and how consolidation impacts the health care field.
The Department of Justice March 27 announced it is launching an Anticompetitive Regulations Task Force to advocate for “the elimination of anticompetitive state and federal laws and regulations that undermine free market competition.
The undersigned organizations write to express our support for the use of the Congressional Review Act (CRA) to overturn the Federal Trade Commission's (FTC) recent premerger notification rules ("Rules").
A report released Jan. 9 by Kaufman Hall highlights hospital and health system merger and acquisition activity from last year.
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce Jan. 13 filed a lawsuit against the Federal Trade Commission, saying changes made by the FTC to premerger notification rules under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Act are “unnecessary and unlawful.”
The Federal Trade Commission Oct. 10 finalized changes to the premerger notification rules, form and instructions under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act. The final rule, while less burdensome than the proposed rule, increases the reporting requirements on the current HSR form,…
The AHA statement before the House Budget Committee on the ways hospital mergers and acquisitions can expand and preserve access to quality care.
AHA Statement to House Ways and Means Subcommittee on the financial and regulatory burdens facing physician practices.
The top three large-group insurers control an average of 82.2% of the market share in each state, nearly twice the combined average market share of each state’s largest health systems, according to a study about consolidation in health care released May 1 by the Association of American Medical…
Health insurers have gone through dramatic vertical consolidation since ERISA was signed into law. Over the last decade, the major corporate insurers have spent billions of dollars acquiring not only other plans, but also providers, pharmacy service companies, and health technology and claims…
The huge venture capital firm General Catalyst (GC) said it planned to buy a health system and use it as a transformation proving ground for technologies developed by its portfolio companies. GC’s recently formed business venture Health Assurance Transformation Corporation (HATCo) says that it has…