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Mergers & Acquisitions

Feb. 6, 2014

Health insurers, providers combine amid raft of deals

Hyper-consolidation within the health care industry is making strange bedfellows of hospital groups and insurance providers.


By Dominic Fracassa


Daily Journal Staff Writer


President Obama's landmark Affordable Care Act has touched off an unprecedented rush of dealmaking in the health care industry that's created some decidedly atypical relationships between care providers and insurance companies. Spurred by tremendous market and regulatory incentives aimed at reining in costs while enhancing the quality of patient care, the wave of consolidation is blurring the lines ...

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