Mergers & Acquisitions

The healthcare industry sees a lot of consolidation between both vendors and healthcare providers this channel tracks mergers and acquisitions between large healthcare systems, community hospitals, private practices, vendors and private equity investors. Health systems have been growing in size substantially in the past decade with mergers with smaller healthcare systems and hospitals. This is largely due to the need to be more efficient amid lower reimbursements and rising costs by building an economy of scale in a larger health system. On the vendor side, mergers have become a common way to reduce research and development costs by purchasing intellectual rights for new technologies, or to purchased companies with new technologies that already have regulatory market clearance. 

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The Marketing Imperative: Effectively Promoting the Hospital-based Practice

Marketing plays a critical role in hospital-practice alignment and recognition of value-added services.

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Building Lasting Partnerships: A Review of Hospital–Radiology Alignment Models

Advisory Board Co. research reveals that there are multiple avenues through which to pursue hospital–radiologist alignment.

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Striking a Match: A Perspective on Evaluating Benefit Structures When Considering a Merger

Zotec

To achieve success in consolidating two radiology practices, it’s important that they are a “good fit.” But what determines a good fit?  While practices may be similar in size and may even have some structural similarities, no two practices are exactly alike.

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Medtronic-Covidien merger a match made in tax heaven

The high U.S. corporate tax rate was matchmaker in the deal announced Sunday in which medical-device maker Medtronic agreed to purchase Covidien PLC for $42.9 billion, according to an article in the Wall Street Journal.

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SDI–EVDI Merger Blankets Phoenix with Mega-Practice

Southwest Diagnostic Imaging (SDI) leap-frogged into the upper ranks of the nation’s largest practices this week by merging with East Valley Diagnostic Imaging in Mesa, Arizona, folding 100 radiologists into a mega-practice that covers the entire Phoenix metropolitan area.

Imaging’s 2014 Merger/Acquisition Outlook: Responding to Reform

VMG

Marked by plenty of merger/acquisition activity, 2013 was a more tumultuous year in the imaging industry than anticipated, according to Todd Sorensen, CVA, a partner with health-care valuation and advisory company VMG Health.

Merger Mania’s Implications for Imaging IT

Ask any health–IT executive for a synonym for change, and a probable response is merger/acquisition. The rapid pace of consolidation among physician practices, individual hospitals, hospital enterprises, and hospital-chain corporations has generated an unprecedented level of organizational, operational, and technological change.

Merger Mania: Radiology Seeks a Foothold in a Consolidating World

It’s not a figment of your imagination: Radiology practices are getting larger via mergers/acquisitions. Hospitals are broadening their reach, using the same tactics, in their efforts to maintain regional influence.

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