• David Burik
• 30 Dec, 2018

Healthcare continues to see record-high numbers of hospital mergers and acquisitions intended to achieve such benefits as gaining economies of scale. Scale-up, and you’ll bring down costs. Yet, such consolidation doesn’t always mean costs come down Wharton School study found the average estimated supply chain savings for target hospitals in a merger of equals to be a fraction of what was expected. In some cases, acquiring hospitals experienced supply-chain cost increases in certain areas.
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