Mergers & Acquisitions

What makes an investment bank and a conglomerate real estate company interested in the healthcare space, and what do they have to offer there? JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon shed some light on that question, not to mention the question of what exactly this venture will do, in a letter to shareholders published last week as part of the bank's annual report.

Mergers and acquisitions can result in economy of scale and other financial benefits -- but it can also be easy for patient access and services issues to go unaddressed.

The insurer is actively creating a network of high-performing, senior-focused primary care physicians.

Deal is latest example of UnitedHealth Group divisions blurring the lines of healthcare delivery.

Two systems cited focuses on other areas of operations that muddied the waters for the merger, making it a no-go.

Deal has been long speculated since the announced $69 billion merger between CVS Health and Aetna.

So far this year, roughly $156 billion in deals are already done thanks to pharma giants like Sanofi, GlaxoSmithKline and Celgene, according to Bloomberg.

Transaction follows layoffs at Ascension Health Michigan.

The platform gives providers patient data to earn incentives from risk-based contracts.

Since hospital-employed doctors tend to perform services in an outpatient setting, the trend increases costs for Medicare and patients.