This past January, Modern Healthcare published Healthcare executives expect M&A to boost business in 2019. “Nearly three-quarters of 291 senior executives polled said they expect better business performance in 2019 than last year, fueled primarily by mergers and acquisitions.”
Executives have good reason to be optimistic. Hospital and physician office mergers and acquisitions aren’t new. Mergers and acquisitions have been going up and up for the last several years.
Some notable mergers and acquisitions already in 2019 include:
Why do hospitals merge?
Hospitals and physician offices merge for many reasons ranging from financial and reimbursement pressures to sharing a mission and desire to be competitive in providing services through combined resources. Whatever the reason, mergers and acquisitions can be a risky undertaking with distant organizations trying to unify their operations.
Standardizing electronic health records, combining/merging Charge Description Masters, and aligning corporate and medical staff cultures can be a tall order. MedCom Solutions is here to help. Using our patented software and technology, MedCom’s clinical consultants can seamlessly unify organizational operations.
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