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Monthly Archives: July 2015
California’s ACA insurance rates to rise an average of 4%
How merger mania will impact the healthcare industry
What’s the Value of Medicaid? Who Really Benefits?
Contemplating health care with a focus on research, an eye on reform.
FTC’s antitrust strategy: Unwind completed mergers and acquisitions
Hospital bond issuance up 215%
Hospitals and other parts of the healthcare sector are putting their toes back into the borrowing waters once again, and like what they are feeling. The healthcare sector sold $18.9 billion in bonds during the first half of 2015, up 76 percent from $10.8 billion sold during the first half of 2014, according to HFA Partners.
Housing Is A Prescription For Better Health
Healthcare lobbies push to include housing as a hospital community benefit
Potential supply sensitive care in NICUs is a growing problem
Potential supply sensitive care in NICUs is a growing problem
Contemplating health care with a focus on research, an eye on reform.
What’s driving the big health insurance mergers?
http://www.healthcaredive.com/news/whats-driving-the-big-health-insurance-mergers/402945/
As with the recent flurry of hospital mergers and acquisitions, the biggest driving force for the current insurance industry mergers is likely the Affordable Care Act (ACA). The New York Times says that although the ACA is bringing insurers more revenue by way of additional customers, greater pricing transparency and government funding cuts have also put more pressure on their profit margins.
HENRY KOTULA 