Transactions & Valuation Issues

Becker's Hospital Review reported these 17 contract resolutions and dissolutions between payers and providers in October, beginning with the most recent. 

Virginia State Health Commissioner Marissa Levine, MD, conditionally approved Kingsport, Tenn.-based Wellmont Health System and Johnson City, Tenn.-based Mountain States Health Alliance's cooperative agreement for their proposed merger Oct. 30.

 The following healthcare mergers, acquisitions, partnerships and general transactions took place or were announced during the past week.

Analysts predict CVS Health is in talks to buy Aetna to stay ahead of another behemoth — Amazon, according to CNBC.

Boston-based Steward Health Care completed the integration of two Arizona hospitals this month, according to the East Valley Tribune.

  The following were among the most-viewed transactions and valuations stories published by Becker's Hospital Review the week of Oct. 27.

  Columbus (Ga.) Regional Health, a two-hospital system, and Piedmont Healthcare, an eight-hospital system in Atlanta, have reportedly finalized their proposed partnership agreement and intend to forward it to the Georgia attorney general's office next month, according to the Ledger-Inquirer.

Cambridge, Neb.-based Tri Valley Health System's board of directors approved a management affiliation agreement with Sioux Falls, S.D.-based Avera Health Oct. 18, according to the McCook Gazette.

ThedaCare, a seven-hospital system in Appleton, Wis., will not pursue plans to consolidate two of its hospitals in Appleton and Neenah, Wis., according to the Post-Crescent.

Two health systems and three medical service companies submitted bids this week for all or part of Eden, N.C.-based Morehead Memorial Hospital's assets, according to the Greensboro News & Record.