Source: Succeeding in Hospital & Health Systems M&A: Why So Many Deals Have Failed, and How to Succeed in the Future, Booz & Company, March 20, 2013 Mergers and acquisitions (M&A) among hospitals and healthcare organizations have been on the rise for several years now. Deals between hospitals, physician medical groups, long-term care facilities, and home health providers abound, with activity l...

OBJECTIVES (1) To determine the proportion of hospitals with and without implementation of electronic health records (EHRs). (2) To examine characteristics of hospitals that report implementation of EHRs partially or completely versus those that report no implementation. (3) To identify hospital characteristics associated with nonimplementation to help devise future policy initiatives. METHOD...

Do for profit hospitals (FPs) perform better than non profit hospitals (NPs) and will continued growth of FPs help contain the alarming increases in U.S. health care costs? Three hospital performance dimensions that need to be considered to address these questions are identified: quality of care, cost of care, and pricing. Existing studies provide ambiguous and conflicting evidence about relati...

Nonprofit hospitals receive favorable tax treatment in exchange for providing socially beneficial activities. Extending this rationale suggests that nonprofit hospital mergers should be evaluated differently than mergers of for-profit hospitals because suppression of competition may also allow nonprofits to cross-subsidize care for the poor. Using detailed California data, we find no evidence t...

introduction. despite the implementation of hospital autonomy in many developed (france, denmark) and developing countries(ghana, zimbabwe, kenya and indonesia) since the early 1980s , relatively little research has been directed towards evaluating the experiences of these hospitals .efficiency, equity, accountability and quality of care can be considered as four main evaluative criteria in ass...

We examine competition in the hospital industry, in particular the effect of ownership type (for-profit, not-for-profit, government). We estimate a structural model of demand and pricing in the hospital industry in California, then use the estimates to simulate the effect of a merger. California hospitals in 1995 face an average price elasticity of demand of -4.85. Not-for-profit hospitals face...