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Following this week’s news of Kaiser Permanente’s Risant Health subsidiary closing its acquisition of Geisinger, the graphic below provides a framework for thinking about health system scale.

Kaiser Permanente’s Risant Health closes its Geisinger acquisition, and Optum plans to purchase Steward Health’s physician network.

Change Healthcare is bringing some systems back online after its cyberattack, and Kroger is selling its specialty pharmacy business to Elevance.

Data sharing platform Health Gorilla surveyed more than 1,200 consumers to gauge their opinion about the privacy of their health data and which companies should be allowed to access it. It found a vast majority of respondents expressed concerns about data breaches affecting their medical records.

In the second of a two-part series, Anu Singh, Managing Director and Leader of the Partnerships, Mergers & Acquisitions Practice, joins the podcast to discuss how more financially stable health systems are considering less traditional, strategic M&A deals and what kinds of conversations are happening right now in C-suites.

In the first of a two-part series, Anu Singh, Managing Director and Leader of the Partnerships, Mergers & Acquisitions Practice, joins the podcast to talk more about how financial distress was a driving factor in smaller deals, as well as how other systems looked for more strategic partnerships.

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.

Transaction momentum continued to build in 2023. Here are our thoughts on the five most interesting hospital and health system transactions from the past year.

Financial distress emerged as a key factor in hospital and health system M&A in 2023, with 28% of announced transactions involving a financially distressed partner. This is almost double the percentage of transactions in which financial distress was cited as a factor in 2022.

With 18 announced transactions, Q3 2023 continued the momentum in activity we have seen throughout the year. A high percentage of financially distressed organizations in this quarter’s transactions reflected the impact of challenging operational and financial headwinds.

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.