Transactions & Valuation Issues

The accelerating rate of consolidation among hospitals and health systems has spurred concern among healthcare economists, antitrust lawyers, employers and consumers over possible price increases for medical services. For decades, evidence substantiating these qualms has been largely anecdotal, but findings…

Franklin, Tenn.-based Capella Healthcare and Brentwood, Tenn.-based RegionalCare Hospital Partners have announced plans to merge, creating a combined company with 18 hospital campuses in 12 states.

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

Minnesota Attorney General Lori Swanson has launched an antitrust review of St. Cloud (Minn.) Medical Group's proposed merger with St. Cloud-based CentraCare, according to the Star Tribune.

A New Jersey Superior Court judge has approved Morristown, N.J.-based Atlantic Health System's acquisition of Hackettstown (N.J.) Regional Medical Center, according to the Morristown Patch.

The West Virginia Health Care Authority has approved the proposed merger of Cabell Huntington (W.Va.) Hospital and Huntington-based St. Mary's Medical Center.

Toledo, Ohio-based Mercy Health and Napoleon, Ohio-based Henry Country Hospital have entered into an affiliation agreement, according Fox 19 Now.

Here are six findings on healthcare sector mergers and acquisitions in 2014, according to a report from Irving Levin Associates.

A recent study commissioned by Conway MacKenzie, a leading business and financial advisory firm, reveals that merger and acquisition (M&A) transactions in the U.S. healthcare sector that significantly increased in volume in 2011 have continued to be sustained well into…

Liu Dian Bo, chairman of China's Luye Group, is looking to acquire more healthcare businesses overseas, according to a Bloomberg report.