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  • January 2, 2020
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Changes in Quality of Care After Hospital Mergers and Acquisitions

By: Nancy Dean Beaulieu, Leemore S. Dafny, B. E. Landon, Jesse Dalton, Ifedayo Kuye and J. Michael McWilliams
Background: The hospital industry has consolidated substantially during the past two decades and at an accelerated pace since 2010. Multiple studies have shown that hospital mergers have led to higher prices for commercially insured patients, but research about effects... View Details
Keywords: Hospitals; Mergers and Acquisitions; Health Care and Treatment; Quality
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Beaulieu, Nancy Dean, Leemore S. Dafny, B. E. Landon, Jesse Dalton, Ifedayo Kuye, and J. Michael McWilliams. "Changes in Quality of Care After Hospital Mergers and Acquisitions." New England Journal of Medicine 382, no. 1 (January 2, 2020): 51–59.
  • 18 Mar 2014
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Massachusetts' Hard Look at Hospital Mergers

  • November 2020 (Revised February 2022)
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CommonSpirit Health: Integrating a Merger of Equals

By: Robert S. Huckman, Hise Gibson and Nicole Gilmore
Soon after closing the 2019 merger of Catholic Health Initiatives (CHI) and Dignity Health to create CommonSpirit Health, Lloyd Dean and Kevin Lofton-–jointly appointed to the role of CEO—must make several operational and strategic decisions related to the integration... View Details
Keywords: Health Care Delivery; Hospital; Merger; Merger Integration; Hospital Mergers; Health Information Technology; CEOs; Health Care and Treatment; Mergers and Acquisitions; Integration; Leadership; Customer Value and Value Chain; Decision Choices and Conditions; Governance; Information Technology; Health Industry; United States
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Huckman, Robert S., Hise Gibson, and Nicole Gilmore. "CommonSpirit Health: Integrating a Merger of Equals." Harvard Business School Case 621-034, November 2020. (Revised February 2022.)
  • 21 Feb 2018
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Bon Secours and Mercy Health Merger Creates Regional Hospital Giant

    Changes in Quality of Care After Hospital Mergers and Acquisitions

    The hospital industry has consolidated substantially during the past two decades and at an accelerated pace since 2010. Multiple studies have shown that hospital mergers have led to higher prices for commercially insured patients, but research about effects on... View Details

    • 01 Jan 2020
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    Changes in Quality of Care after Hospital Mergers and Acquisitions

    • 27 Oct 2020
    • News

    Hospital Merger Seeks to Create Regional Giant in the West

    • 23 Nov 2016
    • News

    Opposition builds in Mountain States, Wellmont Health hospital merger

    • 06 Mar 2015
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    Halting hospital mergers not the same as boosting competition

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    Estimation and Identification of Merger Effects: An Application to Hospital Mergers

    By: Leemore S. Dafny
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    Dafny, Leemore S. "Estimation and Identification of Merger Effects: An Application to Hospital Mergers." Journal of Law & Economics 52, no. 3 (August 2009): 523–550.
    • 06 Oct 2023
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    Proposed Merger Guidelines May Limit Cross-Market Hospital Deals

    • October 1996 (Revised January 1997)
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    Mt. Auburn Hospital

    By: F. Warren McFarlan and Jaan Elias
    In December of 1993, two of Boston's largest and best known hospitals, Massachusetts General and Brigham and Women's, announced that they were setting aside their historic rivalry to form an alliance and build a regional health network. The announcement set off a wave... View Details
    Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Negotiation Offer; Alliances; Networks; Social Enterprise; Horizontal Integration; Health Industry; Boston
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    McFarlan, F. Warren, and Jaan Elias. "Mt. Auburn Hospital." Harvard Business School Case 397-083, October 1996. (Revised January 1997.)
    • 11 Dec 2014
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    Boston Medical Center, Tufts in merger talks

    • 03 Sep 2015
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    Lahey, Beth Israel Deaconess in merger talk

    • 10 Jul 2021
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    Biden Competition Order Targets Hospital Mergers, Surprise Medical Bills

    • Summer 2019
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    The Price Effects of Cross-Market Mergers: Theory and Evidence from the Hospital Industry

    By: Leemore S. Dafny, Katherine Ho and Robin S. Lee
    We consider the effect of mergers between firms whose products are not viewed as direct substitutes for the same good or service but are bundled by a common intermediary. Focusing on hospital mergers across distinct geographic markets, we show that such combinations... View Details
    Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Markets; Geographic Scope; Price; Outcome or Result; Insurance; Health Industry
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    Dafny, Leemore S., Katherine Ho, and Robin S. Lee. "The Price Effects of Cross-Market Mergers: Theory and Evidence from the Hospital Industry." RAND Journal of Economics 50, no. 2 (Summer 2019): 286–325.

      The Price Effects of Cross-Market Mergers: Theory and Evidence from the Hospital Industry

      We consider the effect of mergers between firms whose products are not viewed as direct substitutes for the same good or service but are bundled by a common intermediary. Focusing on hospital mergers across distinct geographic markets, we show that such... View Details
      • December 2024
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      Is There Too Little Antitrust Enforcement in the U.S. Hospital Sector?

      By: Zarek Brot-Goldberg, Zack Cooper, Stuart Craig and Lev Klarnet
      From 2002 to 2020, there were over 1,000 mergers of U.S. hospitals. During this period, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) took enforcement actions against 13 transactions. However, using the FTC’s standard screening tools, we find that 20% of these mergers could have... View Details
      Keywords: Monopoly; Mergers and Acquisitions; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Competition; Health Industry
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      Brot-Goldberg, Zarek, Zack Cooper, Stuart Craig, and Lev Klarnet. "Is There Too Little Antitrust Enforcement in the U.S. Hospital Sector?" American Economic Review: Insights 6, no. 4 (December 2024): 526–542.
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      The Anatomy of a Hospital System Merger: The Patient Did Not Respond Well to Treatment

      By: Raffaella Sadun, Martin Gaynor, Adam Sacarny, Chad Syverson and Shruthi Venkatesh
      Despite the continuing US hospital merger wave, it remains unclear how mergers change, or fail to change, hospital behavior and performance. We open the “black box” of hospital practices through a mega-merger between two for-profit chains. Benchmarking the merger's... View Details
      Keywords: Performance Improvement; Mergers and Acquisitions; Health Industry
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      Sadun, Raffaella, Martin Gaynor, Adam Sacarny, Chad Syverson, and Shruthi Venkatesh. "The Anatomy of a Hospital System Merger: The Patient Did Not Respond Well to Treatment." Review of Economics and Statistics (forthcoming). (Pre-published online October 23, 2023.)
      • October 2007 (Revised May 2009)
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      Offering the Right Service in the Right Place: Growing Orthopedics at the Brigham and Women's/Faulkner (BW/F) Hospitals

      By: V.G. Narayanan, Michael G. Wilson and Rachel Gordon
      After the merger of two local hospitals, hospital leaders much decide how to reorganize services to take advantage of newly created efficiencies. Focuses on the Orthopedics department at one of the hospitals. View Details
      Keywords: Cost Accounting; Mergers and Acquisitions; Cost vs Benefits; Service Operations; Organizational Structure; Performance Efficiency; Competitive Advantage; Health Industry
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      Narayanan, V.G., Michael G. Wilson, and Rachel Gordon. "Offering the Right Service in the Right Place: Growing Orthopedics at the Brigham and Women's/Faulkner (BW/F) Hospitals." Harvard Business School Case 108-016, October 2007. (Revised May 2009.)
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