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AHA blog rebuts ‘outdated and recycled’ article on hospital consolidation
A recent article in American Economic Review provides an “outdated and recycled take” on the effect of hospital consolidation on wages, writes AHA General Counsel Melinda Hatton.
AHA Rebuttal to “Employer Consolidation and Wages: Evidence from Hospitals”
A recent American Economic Review article provides an outdated and recycled take on the effect of hospital consolidation on wages. The article first appeared as a working paper several years ago.
AHA collaborates with Health-ISAC to prepare health care leaders for SolarWinds-type cyber threats
AHA and the Health Information Sharing and Analysis Center (Health-ISAC), a non-profit member organization for sharing cyber threat intelligence and best practices, released a joint white paper to help senior health care leaders understand and respond to certain cyber risks to their enterprise networks.
Appeals court sides with New Mexico health system in antitrust case
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit yesterday affirmed a district court decision rejecting an Albuquerque physician practice’s claims that Presbyterian Healthcare Services engaged in exclusionary or anticompetitive conduct under the Sherman Act.
California hospital, health system challenge conditions placed on affiliation
“Unprecedented” conditions imposed by the California attorney general on Huntington Hospital’s proposed affiliation with Cedars-Sinai would jeopardize the community’s access to critical clinical programs and services and disadvantage Huntington and its patients compared with other hospitals in the region, the hospital and health system said in a lawsuit filed in Los Angeles County Superior Court.
AHA to DOJ: Acquisition would increase insurer’s ‘massive market power’
AHA urged the Department of Justice to investigate thoroughly UnitedHealth Group’s proposed acquisition of Change Healthcare because it threatens to reduce competition for the sale of health care information technology services to hospitals and other health care providers.
AHA rebuts commentary on hospital consolidation
A recent JAMA article, “recycles old and tired arguments about hospital consolidation without any examination of the impact of consolidation in the commercial health insurance industry or related health care sectors that promise to have a profound impact on the cost, quality and accessibility of health care for consumers,” AHA President and CEO Rick Pollack writes in a new blog post.
Pennsylvania drops legal challenge to health system merger
Pennsylvania has dropped its legal challenge to the proposed merger of Philadelphia-based Jefferson Health and Einstein Healthcare Network.
CMS: National health spending up 4.6% in 2019
U.S. spending on health care grew 4.6% in 2019, similar to 2018 but slightly more than overall growth in the economy, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services reported in Health Affairs.
AHASTAT: Paper 'throws cold water' on cross-market theory of hospital merger effects
A new paper by two respected economists “throws cold water” on an untested theory that claims competition