review the large empirical literature on the strategic determination of hospital prices through the lens of this model …

Despite the continuing US hospital merger wave, it remains unclear how mergers change, or fail to change, hospital … behavior and performance. We open the "black box" of hospital practices through a mega-merger between two for-profit chains … electronic medical records and sending managers to target hospitals. Post-acquisition managerial processes were similar across …

There is an ongoing merger wave in the US hospital industry, but it remains an open question how hospital mergers … change, or fail to change, hospital behavior, performance, and outcomes. In this research, we open the “black box” of … practices within hospitals in the context of a mega-merger between two large for-profit chains. Benchmarking the effects of the …