How Consolidation Is Reshaping Health Care
Ongoing trends have challenged healthcare stakeholders to improve care delivery by reducing clinical variation, while also increasing their access to capital. As a result, consolidation has become a defining factor in business models.With national healthcare expenditures increasing from 12.5 percent
Partnering with Other Providers to Develop Community Needs Assessments
Four Milwaukee-area health systems are working together to complete federally mandated community needs assessments more efficiently. They partner with 18 local health departments to collect and analyze data that informs their local health improvement strategies.
Valuing an Acquisition: Don’t Stop at FMV
Daniel M. Grauman, Danielle Bangs, and Sean Looby share insights on fair market value and investment value of acquired healthcare organizations.
Why Independence Assessments Still Matter
Daniel M. Grauman discusses the importance of an independence assessment amongst merger activity.
Grant Thornton: Providing Robust Due Diligence to Facilitate Successful Health System Mergers and Acquisitions
Scott Davis and Stephen Thome of Grant Thornton LLP Health Care Advisory Services discuss the importance of comprehensive due diligence and offer strategies for ensuring a process that supports smooth mergers and acquisitions.
How All Parties in Health Care Can Support Each Other
Health systems, health plans, physicians, and patients should all be willing to work together, rather than individually, to find ways to help bend the cost curve of the nation’s healthcare system.
Diverse M&A Activity Showcases New Partnership Rationale
Healthcare organizations are merging or partnering for different reasons than they did in the past, highlighting the move toward value-based care and population health management.
Video: What Provider Organizations Need to Start Successful Health Plans
Paul Keckley, managing editor of The Keckley Report, explores what provider organizations need to start successful health plans.
Acquisition Financing Vehicles
Partnerships between hospitals and skilled nursing facilities are proving helpful as healthcare organizations seek success in a value-based system.
Tying Together Acute and Post-Acute Care—Formally Versus Informally
Partnerships between hospitals and skilled nursing facilities are proving helpful as healthcare organizations seek success in a value-based system.