Hospital and health system M&A activity continued with momentum in the first quarter of 2026, with 22 hospital and health system transactions announced—the highest first-quarter activity since 2020, according to the Kaufman Hall Mergers and Acquisitions Q1 Report.

Explore how rising ACA Marketplace premiums—driven by higher healthcare costs and expiring subsidies—are reducing affordability and leading to declining coverage rates nationwide.

Explore Kaufman Hall’s infographic on declining tobacco use, highlighting recent trends, key data points, and what falling single-digit usage means for public health and healthcare systems.

Explore Kaufman Hall’s infographic on physicians’ evolving views of AI, highlighting growing optimism, increased adoption, and remaining concerns about implementation and trust in healthcare.

Healthcare bankruptcies declined again in 2025, but ongoing financial pressures, policy uncertainty, and rising costs continue to challenge providers, signaling that underlying market stress remains.

The latest Vizient Research Institute study, The access imperative: Reimagining care delivery for a more complex patient population, concludes that the bulk of hospitalizations in the United States are due to chronic illness.

The latest Vizient Spend Management Outlook projects a 2.78% overall increase in healthcare supply chain prices for July 2026 to June 2027.

Explore cardiologists’ perspectives on AI-assisted clinical decision support — how AI impacts time savings, diagnostic efficiency, errors, and clinician confidence in care delivery in this Kaufman Hall infographic.

The most recent National Hospital Flash Report highlights stabilizing hospital margins at the end of 2025.

This week’s graphic highlights data from Kaufman Hall’s recently published 2025 Hospital and Health System M&A in Review on the dynamics in health system merger and acquisition (M&A) activity.

Life expectancy is rising, according to the latest Centers for Disease Control and Prevention release of U.S. mortality data.

A recent study published in Obstetrics & Gynecology projects a worsening mismatch between obstetrician-gynecologist (OB-GYN) supply and patient demand over the next decade.