Mergers & Acquisitions
Real estate investment trust National Health Investors has acquired a 98-unit independent living community in Chehalis, Washington for $9.8 million, the company announced Tuesday.
Analytics firm Sentry Data Systems on Tuesday said it will buy Nashville-based Agilum Healthcare Intelligence, which focuses on similar financial analytics, for an undisclosed sum.
With the addition of La Porte and Starke hospitals, Community Health Systems of Franklin, Tennessee will operate 11 hospitals in Indiana.
Four hospitals in northern New Hampshire are affiliating administrative, finance, purchasing and other services in a new health system called North Country Healthcare.
New Board Chairman Mark Kelley said the affiliation may represent a first for the nation.
UnitedHealth Group subsidiary Optum will buy the administrative support services for ProHealth Physicians, one of Connecticut's largest independent physician groups.
The Federal Trade Commission has moved to block a proposed merger of Advocate Health Care Network and NorthShore University HealthSystem, a decision the Chicago providers said they would fight.
The prices hospitals negotiate with private insurers vary considerably across geographies, according to a new study by the Health Care Pricing Project, driving huge variations in health care spending for the privately insured.
The Federal Trade Commission announced it is joining forces with the Pennsylvania Attorney General's Office to block the merger of Penn State Hershey Medical Center with the PinnacleHealth System.
Healthcare juggernaut Kaiser Permanente announced Friday they have inked a deal to acquire the Seattle-based Group Health Cooperative in a deal that will expand Kaiser's reach by roughly 509,000 members and add an entirely new region of coverage.
The struggling Daughters of Charity Health System will finally change hands after California Attorney General Kamala D. Harris on Thursday granted conditional approval for its $250 million bailout by Integrity Healthcare and BlueMountain Capital Management.