As health care reform continues its rollout in the US, restructuring the delivery system is a growing focus. With a surge in demand for care as a result of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA), declining reimbursement rates from Medicare and Medicaid, and pressure for greater transparency in cost and quality, many health care organizations are assessing the potential rewards and...

Traditional merger analysis in the U.S. focuses on a single dimension, namely the combination of two or more firms that supply substitutable products. As such, merger analysis misses the fact that there are various types of mergers – e.g., hostile takeovers, friendly acquisitions, and mergers of equals – and that the differences among these types affect outcomes. Similarly missing is explicit c...

The passage of federal healthcare reform legislation, in combination with other factors, makes it likely that the next few years will be a major period of consolidation for healthcare organizations. This article examines the seven key forces reshaping healthcare delivery--from insurance industry consolidation to cost inflation to the increasing gap between financially strong and struggling prov...

• List several different methods of business combination. • State the difference between a hostile versus friendly acquisition. • List the two Federal Government agencies responsible for regulating antitrust issues in acquisitions. • Explain why growth alone is not sufficient reason to undertake an acquisition. • List and briefly describe the two methods of accounting for an acquisition. • List...

The chief benefits of acquiring or merging with another CG company are to create or expand new lines of service or enter new geographical markets and enhance the product portfolio. In economic times where organic growth is hard to come by, these are powerful considerations. Acquiring a smaller player can offer a large CG company greater flexibility and quicker time to market -a key advantage no...