Opening the black box of hospital mergers | VOX, CEPR Policy Portal
Despite the current wave of US hospital mergers, it is unclear how they change behaviour and performance. This column ‘opens the black box’ of hospital practices by analysing a mega-merger between two for-profit chains. Benchmarking the merger’s actual effects against the acquirer’s stated aims, its shows that while the merger achieved some goals – harmonising electronic
Source: voxeu.org