The Anatomy of a Hospital System Merger: The Patient Did Not Respond Well to Treatment

Raffaella Sadun, Martin Gaynor, Adam Sacarny, Chad Syverson and Shruthi Venkatesh

No 16787, CEPR Discussion Papers from Centre for Economic Policy Research

Abstract: 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. Benchmarking the merger’s effects against the acquirer’s stated aims, we show they achieved some of their goals, harmonizing electronic medical records and sending managers to target hospitals. Post-acquisition managerial processes were similar across the merged chain. However, these interventions failed to drive detectable gains in performance. Our findings demonstrate the importance of organizations for merger research in health care and the economy more generally.

Date: 2021-12
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Working Paper: The anatomy of a hospital system merger: the patient did not respond well to treatment (2022)
Working Paper: The Anatomy of a Hospital System Merger: The Patient Did Not Respond Well to Treatment (2021)
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