Elliot Health System in Manchester, N.H., will explore an affiliation with Lebanon, N.H.-based Dartmouth-Hitchcock, according to a Valley News report.
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Voters will decide on a proposed affiliation between Tehachapi (Calif.) Valley Healthcare District and Roseville, Calif.-based Adventist Health, according to a Tehachapi News report.
Certain insurers — like UnitedHealth and Humana — are dropping from the Affordable Care Act exchanges due to financial losses, and Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina's CEO feels no differently, according to the Charlotte Business Journal.
Kedrick Adkins Jr. CFO of Mayo Clinic (Rochester, Minn.). Mr. Adkins has headed up finances at Mayo Clinic since 2014. Previously he was with Livonia, Mich.-based Trinity Health, serving as president of integrated services from 2007 until 2013. He helped…
The following healthcare mergers, acquisitions and general partnerships took place or were announced in the past week.
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Health insurers have been making it big in the news as of late. From premium hikes to departures from state Affordable Care Act exchanges, announcements from payers have been plentiful.
The Campaign for Consumer Choice vehemently opposes the health insurance industry's mega-mergers. But its funding comes from an unlikely source: the hospital industry, according to STAT.
Antitrust approvals for the $48 billion proposed merger between Anthem and Cigna could be delayed or derailed by squabbles between the two insurers, according to a series of letters reviewed by The Wall Street Journal.
The New York State Department of Health has tabled a request by Pittsburgh-based UPMC to take over WCA Hospital in Jamestown, N.Y.
Jennie Stuart Medical Center in Hopkinsville, Ky., is now an affiliated partner of Nashville, Tenn.-based Vanderbilt Health Affiliated Networks and Vanderbilt University Medical Center, according to The Leaf-Chronicle.