Merger Mania Redux: the Case of the Carilion Health Care System

Courtesy Health Care Renewal  Thu, 08/28/2008 - 11:30

The Wall Street Journal published an article on how one not-for-profit hospital system came to dominate its market, and the effects of that domination on local health care.

How the System Became Dominant

The WSJ article documented how a hospital merger created a vertically-integrated health care system.

Note that in the old days of "merger mania," there was a lot of buzz in the health care research and policy circles about how creating such...


 

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