Brushing aside the health care industry’s pleas for delay, the Oregon Health Authority launched its groundbreaking program to control large mergers and acquisitions among hospitals and other health care entities, according to The Lund Report.
The agency doesn’t expect much more than a half-dozen proposed mergers and acquisitions will need to go through the approval process each year — although the number is hard to predict.
But that hasn’t stopped Oregon’s hospital systems from objecting strongly to the program. Because the program focuses exclusively on big transactions, hospital deals would likely be most affected, although the rules also apply to large insurance companies and health care provider groups. Read more.
