Mergers & Acquisitions

If finalized, the affiliation would create an organization with 181 locations in Florida, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky and Tennessee, employing more than 4,500 people and serving an estimated 150,000 patients.

Healthcare payment solution company SwervePay has acquired StatPayMD, a cost transparency group, in order to provide information and price transparency tools to consumers, the companies announced.

Rite Aid earned nearly $166 million and opened 23 health clinics in 2015, the company announced in what may be its last full-year earnings report before its scheduled takeover by Walgreens.

Advocate Health Care and the NorthShore University Health System will square off against the Federal Trade Commission in federal court in Chicago in Monday as regulators move to block their pending merger.

Northwestern Memorial HealthCare and Centegra Health System are considering a possible affiliation, the companies said Wednesday.

It also needs green light from 23 other states.

Physicians Realty Trust, a healthcare properties REIT, will buy 52 medical office facilities in a deal worth $724.9 million, the Trust said.

Facing new measures by the U.S. Treasury to thwart tax-evading deals, drugmaker Pfizer has officially jettisoned its $160 billion agreement to buy Allergan, according to published reports.

The sale of Tenet Healthcare Corporation's five Atlanta-area hospitals and related operations to WellStar Health System in exchange for $575 million in cash is complete, the company announced Friday. The sale is effective as of March 31, 2016.

A Community Health Systems subsidiary has gained 80 percent ownership interest in Physicians' Specialty Hospital, a 20-bed facility in Fayetteville, Arkansas, CHS announced Friday.