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Transactions & Valuation Issues

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Ownership of Bakersfield, Calif.-based Kern Medical Center transferred to the Kern County Hospital Authority Monday, a newly created and independent governing body, according to The Bakersfield Californian.

Despite efforts to better coordinate care through accountable care organizations and integrated delivery systems, studies indicate keeping distance between physicians and hospitals may actually be much more cost efficient, according to New York Times columnist Austin Frakt, PhD, a health…

The language used to describe the coming together of organizations through mergers and acquisitions is often similar to that used to describe marriage. In many ways, combining two companies does resemble matrimony. Unfortunately, like marriage, an incompatible match can lead…

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