by Katherine Cwiek, Manager & Laura Zacchigna, Senior Associate
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Industry transformation requires major adaptations from healthcare organizations – to increase scale, enhance scope, and achieve differentiation, among others. Partnerships can be a key vehicle to facilitate and pursue these adaptations. Partnerships between academic and community hospitals/health systems are a unique sub-set of healthcare provider partnerships. Academic providers aligning with their community counterparts is, of […]
by Mark Dubow, Director
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Your selection of post-acute care (“PAC”) partners can make or break your value-based payment programs and care management initiatives. Even where fee-for-service is still dominant, having the right post-acute care partners can improve economic performance by reducing length of stay and minimizing acute care readmissions. Most health systems and hospitals do not own PAC facilities, […]
by John Harris, Director & Stu Schaff, Manager
HFM Blog
December 2014
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It’s easy to get swept up in merger mania. Many industry observers see rapid consolidation with no end in sight. In fact, a recent report by one major consulting firm posited that only about half of the current health systems will be left standing in 10 years. This conclusion was supported by analyses from […]
by Dan Grauman, Director & CEO & Katherine Cwiek, Manager
HFM Blog
July 2015
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Consolidation in the healthcare industry is well-established and moving full-steam ahead. There were an average of 100 hospital transactions per year between 2011 and 2014, compared with 60 per year in the preceding four-year period.a More than 60 percent of U.S. hospitals are now part of a health system.b In most major metropolitan areas, the […]
by Robert Hill
Hospitals are merging in greater numbers than they have in years. While the number of consolidations is not yet as high as the last merger wave in the late 1990s, further consolidation is expected. The number of deals doubled to 105 in 2012 from 50 in 2009, according to Irving Levin Associates. The industry is […]