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 AHA, joined by five other hospital associations, urged the Federal Trade Commission to abandon its unprecedented policy to enforce the Hart-Scott-Rodino Act against state-approved mergers and acquisitions, specifically with Louisiana Children’s Medical Center’s state-approved merger with HCA…
Mergers and acquisitions are a vital tool to keep financially struggling hospitals open and allow hospitals and health systems to reduce costs, improve quality and better serve patients where they live, AHA told the House Ways and Means Health Subcommittee May 17 in a statement submitted for a…
AHA statement for the record to the Ways and Means Subcommittee on Health to provide the hospital perspective on how hospital mergers and acquisitions can expand and preserve access to quality care.
AHA expresses serious concerns about the Federal Trade Commission’s unprecedented attempt to enforce the Hart-Scott-Rodino Act (HSR) against a Louisiana hospital’s acquisition of three hospitals in the New Orleans area.
Several House and Senate committees will hold hearings this week on a variety of issues that affect hospitals and health systems.
The AHA and its members are committed to promoting affordability and value to advance the health of our patients. Given the hearing’s focus of reducing health care costs, we provide comments on a number of policies aimed at increasing access to quality care at reduced costs.
One of the most important tools that hospitals can use to increase access and quality of care and manage risk and financial pressures are mergers and acquisitions. A range of partnerships, mergers and acquisitions enable hospitals to expand service offerings, broaden networks and access to…
The Department of Justice in February abruptly withdrew three policy statements on health care antitrust enforcement.
In early February 2023, a senior U.S. Department of Justice Antitrust Division (DOJ) official
abruptly announced that DOJ had withdrawn three longstanding statements of antitrust
enforcement policy in health care (Policy Statements).
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