Health systems are looking to combine their resources through mergers and acquisitions as financial challenges plague the industry. Now, state lawmakers want a hand in the deal. A flurry of merger oversight bills are on legislators’ tables in states nationwide, although they are not the first of their kind, Becker’s reports. Read more.
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