The Most Influential Healthcare Deals So Far In 2024
Dead Or Not Quite: Hospitals Weigh Shared Definition Of DOA
Sanford-Marshfield Tie-Up Portends More Cross-Market Deals
The Most Influential Healthcare Deals So Far In 2024
The healthcare industry has already seen a handful of multibillion-dollar deals in 2024, including a $16.5 billion acquisition by Novo Holdings. But big doesn't necessarily equate to influential. Law360 Healthcare Authority breaks down the significance of five deals that have shaped the healthcare industry this year.
Dead Or Not Quite: Hospitals Weigh Shared Definition Of DOA
What does it mean to be dead on arrival? Standardizing the definition is vital to the nation's hospital emergency departments, which are partly evaluated on patient mortality rates. In New York, the push to define DOA ignited a debate touching on how hospitals are reimbursed, risk-adjusted mortality figures, and the use of emergency procedures intended to save patients without a pulse.
Sanford-Marshfield Tie-Up Portends More Cross-Market Deals
A merger between two Midwest health systems is evidence of hospitals' desire to strike deals with players in other markets, according to experts in the space, who say the trend may be influenced by a tough antitrust environment and larger industry shift to value-based care.
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While each deal is unique, transactions don't occur in a vacuum. Here, Law360 Healthcare Authority reviews five trends that helped shape some of those deals and the wider healthcare industry so far this year.
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