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Learn why healthcare strategic partnerships falter and how to improve outcomes with credible business cases, aligned incentives, durable structures, rigorous due diligence, and simpler, effective agreements from real-world deal insights.

In healthcare today, organizations can face opportunities across geographies and sectors, each with their own unique benefits and risks. But like a fruit tree at harvest time, these opportunities can be time sensitive.

Sustained momentum in lab transactions is being driven by national lab operators’ desire to build scale and health systems’ recognition that divestiture of their lab business could free up capital to fund other core operations. This article provides key considerations in evaluating a potential lab transaction.

Partnerships with imaging companies can offer a unique value proposition for health systems looking to blend their imaging offering between hospital outpatient department and independent diagnostic testing facility settings.

As ambulatory services grow, so does competition in the area of ambulatory surgery center (ASC) management services. Health systems have an ever-expanding range of potential partners that are offering increasingly flexible alignment structures.

Evolving industry dynamics will prompt further consolidation among not-for-profit life plan communities, especially as organizations look to add scale to their platforms. This activity will have strategic implications for LPC organizations of all sizes.

To successfully reduce length of stay, health system management will need to combine performance improvement efforts with efforts to successfully align themselves more closely with skilled nursing providers.

In a time of increasing resource constraints for hospitals and health systems, what might happen or could happen in a patient’s home is of increasing interest to health plans, hospitals, and health systems.

The DOJ and FTC recently released proposed updated merger guidelines that, if finalized in similar form, will increase the degree of difficulty associated with mergers and acquisitions. Learn more about the legal and strategic implications for healthcare organizations.

At a transformational moment for not-for-profit healthcare, recent trends in partnerships, mergers, and acquisitions indicate that hospitals and health systems are exploring increasingly bold strategies to meet new challenges.

Various industry pressures have accelerated an evolution of laboratory businesses in recent years, with particular impacts on labs owned by health systems. As a result, many systems are...

As the Baby Boom generation completes its transition into senior status—the entire generation is expected to reach retirement age by 2030—operators of senior living facilities will need...