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Atrium Health Pursues $1.5 Billion Innovation District
Atrium Health officials recently shared early details with Mecklenburg County Board about a planned $1.5 billion innovation district in uptown Charlotte, N.C. The nonprofit health system is seeking a public-private partnership for the 40-acre district that would be built near a planned Wake Forest School of Medicine campus due to begin construction in 2022.
Walmart Hires Ochsner Exec to Lead Health Care Push
Continuing its push to expand its retail clinic offerings, Walmart Health has hired Ochsner Health System’s David Carmouche, M.D., as senior vice president of Omnichannel Care Solutions. Carmouche, who will begin his new role at the end of the month, had been executive vice president of Ochsner Health’s value-based care and network operations.
AWS Taps 10 Health Care Startups for Inaugural Accelerator Program
Amazon Web Services has had relationships with thousands of health care startups. On Oct. 28, however, the culmination of AWS’ Healthcare Accelerator launch will give 10 recently selected startups an unprecedented experience.
Partnerships, Mergers, and Acquisitions Can Provide Benefits to Certain Hospitals and Communities
Hospitals and health systems face many pressures to increase the scale of their operations. To help mitigate these challenges, hospitals are considering a range of partnership, merger, and acquisition possibilities to gain new capabilities, realize new efficiencies, and spread costs over a larger organization.
Mayo Clinic, Verily Work to Build Better Decision-Support Tools
Already in the early stages of a partnership with Google Cloud to develop electrocardiogram algorithms, Mayo Clinic has launched a separate two-year partnership with Google subsidiary Verily to build decision-support tools for cardiology and diabetes.
Blue Shield of California, Walgreens to Partner on Wellness Services
In one of its largest partnerships with a payer to date, Walgreens is collaborating with Blue Shield of California to offer health care services to the insurer’s members.
Hospital Merger Benefits: An Econometric Analysis Revisited
In this report we revisit our econometric analysis and include two additional years of data for 2018 and 2019 on cost, quality, and revenue outcomes from hospital transactions. The addition of these data allows us to measure the effects of 144 additional hospital acquisitions and also allows us to measure the effects of the hospital acquisitions we had previously included in our studies over a longer period of time.
Hospital Merger Benefits: An Econometric Analysis Revisited Executive Summary
This is the third analysis by Charles River Associates (CRA) showing that recent hospital acquisitions reduce costs and lead to improved performance on important quality indicators without an increase in revenue that may signal enhanced market power. All three analyses found that hospital acquisitions can generate substantial benefits.
Anticompetitive Conduct by Commercial Health Insurance Companies
Passage of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and, most recently, the repeal of the industry’s McCarran-Ferguson antitrust protection should be a catalyst for a more scrutiny by the federal antitrust and other federal agencies. And, as strongly suggested by the American Medical Association’s report that more than 74% of commercial health insurance markets are concentrated, scrutiny should include a retrospective investigation into the industry’s consolidation.
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