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Mega Health Insurance Mergers: Is Bigger Really Better?
Jefferson, Aria Health make spring merger plans official
Aria will be designated as a regional referral site and will be an epicenter for new program development, officials say.
States may hold final sway in proposed megamergers
FTC Rejects Another Health System M&A
http://healthleadersmedia.com/content.cfm?topic=HEP&content_id=323594
The Federal Trade Commission’s administrative complaint says the merger would create a dominant provider of general acute care inpatient services sold to commercial health plans in a four-county region of south-central Pennsylvania.
We’re Still Not Talking About Health Care’s ‘Elephant in the Room’
Critics seek hard look at Yale–L+M deal, hospital market power
Hershey-PinnacleHealth: Will they fight or back down from the FTC?
http://www.pennlive.com/news/2015/12/hershey_pinnacle_penn_state_me.html
The FTC typically takes such actions when it concludes a merger will hurt competition in a market and is likely to result in higher prices for consumers. A wave of consolidation has been sweeping the health care industry, and the FTC has shown increasing concern.
HENRY KOTULA 