Vertically challenged
An artist's rendering of the proposed St Luke’s Health System and Saltzer Medical Group complex -- before their merger was blocked (Credit: Saltzer Medical)
The hurdles to horizontal consolidation in US healthcare – hospitals buying hospitals, insurers buying insurers – have become clear over the course of several antitrust agency enforcement actions in the past decade. The possibilities for vertical healthcare mergers, however, appear less bounded. Pallavi Guniganti reports
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