Although hospital consolidation within markets has become a common practice, consolidation across markets is on the rise, with research in Health Affairs suggesting this may harm competition. Economic ...

You’ve probably seen the word “death cross” a lot in the financial media lately. While the name itself sounds ominous enough, it’s important to understand what it is exactly, why people care about ...

Ontario, Calif.-based Prime Healthcare is redefining its cross-market merger and acquisition strategy with its largest acquisition to date — eight hospitals in Illinois, a new market for the health ...

Most recently, a research article published in the November 2022 issue of Health Affairs titled “The Rise of Cross-Market Hospital Systems and their Market Power in the US” presents the results of a ...

Some of the largest healthcare mergers and acquisitions over the last year were cross-market transactions, a trend that is expected to pick up steam despite the Federal Trade Commission taking a ...