Mega Insurance deals could have big effect on credit ratings, S&P says

http://www.healthcarefinancenews.com/news/mega-insurance-deals-could-have-big-effect-credit-ratings-sp-says?mkt_tok=3RkMMJWWfF9wsRonuq3MdO%2FhmjTEU5z16ukvX6%2B%2Fh4kz2EFye%2BLIHETpodcMTcBjNLDYDBceEJhqyQJxPr3MLtINwNlqRhPrCg%3D%3D

Anthem, Cigna and Aetna face possible rate cuts if mergers hit too many regulatory, lending hurdles.

Cain Brothers’ 2016 Healthcare Industry Outlook

https://gallery.mailchimp.com/d610d4deb64a452522c5c8e05/files/Vol_79_2016_Outlook_02.pdf?utm_source=Website+Registrants&utm_campaign=2144f72c2b-Strategies_79_2016_Healthcare_Outlook_1_6_2016&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_a68ce3feac-2144f72c2b-161042609

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Huge hospital deal goes through: Daughters of Charity system closes controversial deal

http://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/blog/2015/12/daughers-charity-blue-mountain-kamala-harris.html?ana=e_sfbt_bn_breakingnews&u=FAuoHGaGEPdmk4X6khnaiw045b16af&t=1450122554

Robert Issai, president and CEO of the Daughters of Charity Health System, which is no longer in the hospital business now that the transfer of its assets to Blue Mountain Capital Management is now complete.

 

FTC Rejects Another Health System M&A

http://healthleadersmedia.com/content.cfm?topic=HEP&content_id=323594

Antitrust

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’

http://www.californiahealthline.org/road-to-reform/2015/were-still-not-talking-about-health-cares-elephant-in-the-room

Provider Consolidation

The three trends that will carry into next year

http://managedhealthcareexecutive.modernmedicine.com/managed-healthcare-executive/news/three-trends-will-carry-next-year

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