Transactions & Valuation Issues

Decatur (Ill.) Memorial Hospital has entered into an agreement to join Memorial Health System, a four-hospital system based in Springfield, Ill.

Parkview Medical Center, one of the largest hospitals in southern Colorado, may soon be considered out of network for Cigna members, according to local TV station KRDO.

Most mergers and acquisitions professionals believe the M&A market is headed in a positive direction, even as political uncertainty could upend transactions, according to a recent Merrill Insight poll.

Franklin, Tenn.-based Community Health Systems has signed definitive agreements to sell two Florida hospitals to Altamonte Springs, Fla.-based Adventist Health System Sunbelt Healthcare.

A contract between Kettering Health Network and Cigna is set to expire in June as negotiations between the parties stall, according to the Dayton Business Journal.

A federal judge should give final approval to CVS Health and Aetna to close their $69 billion deal, urged five states where the companies have substantial operations, according to Bloomberg Law.  

CVS Health and Aetna must testify during a hearing next month, a federal judge ordered May 13.

Anne Arundel Medical Center in Annapolis, Md., and Doctors Community Health System, a single-hospital system based in Lanham, Md., have announced merger plans.

While the early years of the ACA exchanges featured volatile price and offering changes, by 2017, the individual market had begun to stabilize, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation.

Louisville-based KentuckyOne Health may be nearing a sale of Jewish Hospital after about two years.