Available at: Hoogendoorn WE, van Poppel MN, Bongers PM, et al. These studies use similar methodology: Both analyze the difference in quality measures before and after a merger as compared to those for non-merging hospitals. They rarely improve access to health care or its. The 16 articles, included in the narrative synthesis, reported inconsistent findings and few statistically significant results. After a decade of "merger mania," many organizations now are taking a step back and looking to unwind past partnerships or call off deals before they are finalized. [15] Xu, supra. Director of the Federal Trade Commissions bureau of economics Martin S. Gaynor said, Hospitals that face less competition charge substantially higher prices. He noted that the price increases could be as high as 40 percent to 50 percent.[21], Associate professor of economics at Clemson University Matthew S. Lewis stated, Acquisitions of hospitals by large national chainsmay not increase hospital concentration in the affected local markets, but could nevertheless generate higher prices.[22], An article in Forbes noted that concentrated hospital markets can increase prices by as much as 44 percent. For perception in staff outcome: in Holm-Peterson et al.,35 satisfaction, leadership tasks, delegation, reflections on size of hospital wards are explored; Cost-reduction benefits, improvement of clinical quality, ability to assume payment risk dimensions are analyzed in Noether et al.32. Additional high-quality and well-designed studies with adequate follow-up are needed ascertaining mergers do not reduce the quality of care. Noether M, May S. Report: Hospital Merger Benefits: Views from Hospital Leaders and Econometric Analysis, January 2017, reported by American Hospital Association (AHA). Background Despite mergers have increasingly affected hospitals in the recent decades, literature on the impact of hospitals mergers on healthcare quality measures (HQM) is still lacking. Loss of revenue for local businesses if there are extensive employee layoffs or closures. Regarding process indicators, three studies2,4,5 showed a statistically significant decrease in inpatient admission (0.11 in logarithmic scale; 743,47; 6289.35) (table2). Sapienza Universit di Roma, Roma, Italia, 5 Outcome measures were reported in five studies2,16,26,28,31 and the mostly represented measures were related to: overall hospital mortality rate (40%), acute myocardial infarction (AMI) mortality (60%) and stroke mortality (60%). Millions in investments. UPMC's rollup entailed ruthless downsizing measures to cut costs, including closing down four hospitals entirely and stripping out services in rural areas, such as maternity wards. HPAE has issued apress release on the merger, including the following comment from Local 5030 President Michele, From The Record HackensackUMC Palisades, as it will now be known, will become a fully owned part of the system that includes the flagship Hackensack University Medical Center, two jointly owned hospitals in Westwood and Montclair, and the affiliated Englewood, At a public hearing before the Office of the NJ Attorney General, held on December 3, Local 5030 VP Zahia Zhort spoke in support, with conditions, of the proposed affiliation agreement between Hackensack University Health Network (HUHN) and Palisades. [20] Marsha Mercer. The statehas approved the sale of Meadowlands Hospital Medical Center, the Secaucus hospital where admissions have plummeted under private ownership, to a multimillionaire real-estate developer who owns a Bergen County surgical center. Outcomes were considered as promising, in presence of at least two significance in outcomes and >75% of consistent findings. The environment in which you live and work. Deloitte's Center for Health Solutions collaborated with the Healthcare Financial Management Association (HFMA) in 2017 to analyze how M&A impacts a hospital's performanceand to learn why some transactions have more favorable results than others. The risk of bias (RoB) and the methodological quality of the included studies were assessed using the National Institutes od Health (NIH) Study Quality Assessment tools for beforeafter and casecontrol studies, and The Joanna Briggs Institute Systematic Reviews Checklist for qualitative researches.22,23 NIH Study Quality Assessment tools include items regarding study objective and population, sample size, inclusionexclusion criteria, blinding of outcome assessor, and appropriate statistical analysis. The literature suggests that hospital mergers, particularly facility-level mergers, are capable of attaining substantial cost savings (Connor et al. [19] Lisa Schencker. Some 300 new employees. official website and that any information you provide is encrypted This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (, GUID:505E7969-EBEC-46AF-A501-22F7CE1AC871. Despite this, to date, literature on the impact of hospitals mergers appears to have mainly focused on economic aspects.17 On the other hand, to the best of our knowledge, literature summarizing the impact of merger on HQM is still lacking. Furthermore, NIH tools encompass control group selection criteria and exposure factor items for casecontrol studies, and attrition rate and outcome measures items for beforeafter studies.22 According to The Joanna Briggs Institute Systematic Reviews Checklist,23 congruity among philosophical perspective, research methodology, objectives, methods used to collect and analyze data, interpretation of results and researcher influence on the study were described and assessed for qualitative research. Inspira Health announced the addition of Salem Medical Center to its system Dec. 16, acquiring its hospital building, ambulatory surgery center and physician offices, effective immediately. Statement by Debbie White, RN and President regarding the announcement by Englewood Health on the merger into the Hackensack Meridian Health System, A partnership between Hackensack Meridian Health and St. Joseph's Health announced Wednesday will focus on cancer careAlexis Shanes, North Jersey Record. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is releasing data publicly -- for the first time -- on mergers, acquisitions, consolidations, and changes of ownership from 2016-2022 for hospitals and nursing homes enrolled in Medicare. Impact of Hospital Mergers [Part of Merger Monitor] While hospital mergers have been on the rise in recent years, they are not new to the landscape of health care. HHS Vulnerability Disclosure, Help Sezione di Igiene, Dipartimento Universitario Scienze della Vita e Sanit Pubblica, Universit Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Roma, Italia, 2 Nevertheless, some studies argued that less concentrated and high competitive markets report better clinical outcomes in hospitalized patients, i.e. No follow-up, not being seen, role overload, but they also report more development possibilities and greater flexibility, Saving in fixed costs especially associated with supply chain, IT, administration, billings, pharmacy and laboratory and physical plant management. Policymakers and hospital managers who are going to start a merger process must early adopt an evaluation framework that helps to perform an overall periodic assessment of HQM during the whole process. Accessibility The majority (56.3%) were developed in the USA, followed by Northern Europe (Norway, Denmark, Sweden) accounting for 31.3% of all studies. [12], Most of the leading quality and safety successes in medicine occur in collaboratives formed by competing hospitals, rather than collaboratives within one hospital system. [2] Pear, supra. [8] The Synthesis Project. High heterogeneity in the studies methodology was found, e.g. The studies that the FTC's Bureau of Economics (BE) will conduct . The reasoning is that more providers make for greater competition and therefore lower prices. the contents by NLM or the National Institutes of Health. While these cases are quite prominent in healthcare news of late and make it appear an FTC challenge is a common occurrence, Edith Ramirez, then chairwoman of the commission in 2014, said the FTC had challenged less than 1 percent of hospital deals. April 14, 2021. Main statistically significant results of single studies, For Romano et al.,28 EH is the acquiring hospital, HPH the acquired hospital. Studies included showed methodological heterogeneity, particularly regarding study design and outcomes reporting. A federal judge this week temporarily blocked Hackensack Meridian Health, one of the states largest health care systems, from acquiring Englewood Health. Taken from NJ.com BySusan K. Livio March 21, 2019 Trinitas Regional Medical Center in Elizabeth is in confidential negotiations to join one of the states largest hospital systems, continuing a decade-long frenzy of mergers in New Jerseys fierce healthcare market. The Risks of Hospital Mergers. The New York Times, 6 July 2014, http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/07/opinion/the-risks-of-hospital-mergers.html Results: The primary specification results indicate that merger completion is associated with a 3.7 percent increase in the utilization of bypass surgery and angioplasty and a 1.7 percent increase in inpatient mortality above averages in 2000 for the average zip code. 1. CRICO's Risk Assessment Unit has access to a rich body of work to help articulate identified factors and by which to frame improvement recommendations. In particular, quasi-experimental studies with interrupted time series design can evaluate intervention effect estimating causal effects using observational approaches when, as in this case, randomized controlled trials (the ideal approach to evaluate effects of interventions) cannot be performed.3739 This robust design can be employed to understand the effects of policies and the improvement in the health system quality also thanks to the ability of controlling for the secular trends present in many health system outcomes38,39 (available in the Supplementary data). If the merger goes through, HMH will own 15 hospitals in the state of New Jersey. Hospitals seeking to understand patient safety strengths and vulnerabilities in the context of mergers/acquisitions benefit more from a third-party perspective than from a limited internal process. Trinitas Regional Medical Center and its affiliates will become part of RWJBarnabas Health under a definitive merger agreement the systems entered into on Nov. 11. By Elsa Pearson Reprints Adobe C ontrary to what health care executives advertise, hospital mergers and acquisitions aren't good for patients. Then president and CEO of Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital Hamilton foresaw five or six systems dominating healthcare in NJ by 2023. [11], Hospital re-admissions may increase for heart attack patients and newborns may experience early discharge with hospital mergers. They rarely improve access to health care or its quality, and they dont reduce prices. Years of publication of the studies ranged from 1997 of Alexander et al.4 to 2020 of Beaulieu et al.26 A total of 62.5% of the included articles were longitudinal retrospective beforeafter studies, of which 40% were controlled studies and the other 50% cross-sectional studies, only one study included both a cross-sectional (survey) and a beforeafter design. [25] Ka Keat Lim. At a 2013 annual conference, NJ healthcare leaders met to discuss the future state of healthcare in NJ post-ACA before actual implementation. To examine the impact of hospital mergers on quality of care, researchers from HMS and Harvard Business School examined patient outcomes from nearly 250 hospital mergers that took place between 2009 and 2013. THE IMPACT OF THE INSURER PERSPECTIVE ON STANDARD MARKET DEFINITION IN HOSPITAL MERGERS Economists and antitrust practitioners generally use a two-stage model to examine competition between. TRENTON . Hospital mergers between similarly-sized organizations are driving the recent increase in healthcare mergers and acquisitions. Hospital Mergers May Be Good for Business, But Patients dont Always Benefit. AARP Bulletin, June 2013,http://www.aarp.org/health/medicare-insurance/info-06-2013/hospital-mergers.html Hospital mergers led to an increase in HMO premiums for those HMOs that operated in the most competitive markets. Healthcare Leaders Envision a Shared Future. NJSpotlight, 9 May 2013,http://www.njspotlight.com/stories/13/05/08/healthcare-leaders-envision-a-shared-future/ Two studies evaluated changes in the number of outpatient visits, one with a non-significant increase30 (2750, t-value 0.07) while the other5 showed a statistically significant negative value in the difference-in-differences analysis (28231.28). Why arent they being stopped? Researchers should work to produce high-quality, well-designed studies with adequate follow-up, in order to evaluate all healthcare quality dimensions (including cost-efficacy and equity) of hospital mergers. The Federal Trade Commissionannounced Tuesdaythat two hospital systems in New Jersey that were planning to merge have canceled those plans, following an FTC complaint that a merger would be anticompetitive. Major renovations. 8600 Rockville Pike Nonetheless, several limitations could be identified. This data is a powerful new tool for researchers, state and federal enforcement agencies, and the public to . Impact of hospital mergers on staff job satisfaction: a quantitative study. Human Resources for Health, 2014, 12:70,http://www.human-resources-health.com/content/12/1/70 A systematic review on the effectiveness of group versus single-handed practice, Changes in quality of care after hospital mergers and acquisitions. HCA Healthcare to buy 41 Texas urgent care centers from FastMed. When available, the use of MeSH terms allowed us to retrieve more comprehensive information. Corrado De Vito and Gianfranco Damiani contributed equally to this work. A service area monopoly puts a community at risk of no health care or limited access to care if the health system fails. [13], Large hospital systems may fail to improve outcomes and also encourage greater utilization of services; more treatment may lead to sub-optimal care, over-treatment, and can account for higher mortality rates.[14]. In: Can governments do it better? Ward Sanders, president of the New Jersey Association of Health Plans stated, Provider and hospital consolidation are often sold as measures to increase efficiency, but ironically they often result in higher prices for employers and individuals as efficiencies can be overshadowed by higher charges that larger healthcare systems often leverage in negotiations [with insurers].[16], A 2012 Robert Wood Johnson Foundation study updating its previous 2006 study found that increases in hospital market concentration lead to increases in the price of hospital care. The study noted that these increases get passed along to consumers in the form of higher premiums, lower benefits, and lower wages. sharing sensitive information, make sure youre on a federal In literature, the main potential benefits of mergers declared by hospital leaders usually refer to economic and financial availability, but also clinical quality improvements due to increased investments, higher volumes of specialized procedures and standardization of clinical protocols.32. Article Published Aug 26, 2021 by AHIP Every American deserves high-quality, affordable health care. Continuous staff support and management of staff. Furthermore, we sought to increase the value and the validity and reliability of findings performing strength of evidence analysis. reviews, editorials) and with intervention represented by vertical merger or by non-homogeneous mergers such as those between hospital and non-hospital facilities. The effects of restructuring and mergers on patient care, however, are more difficult to understand because the evidence varies over time, by hospital or unit, and by unit type. [17], A 2014 New York Times editorial board opinion noted the increasing prices for services after Massachusetts General and Brigham and Womens Hospitals merged, as well as purchasing domination of doctors practices; Massachusetts AG attempted to rein in costs and bargaining power through a negotiated deal. Over the last three decades, a growing number of healthcare organizations of different countries, especially in the USA and in Europe, underwent mergers.13 Referring to hospitals, the merger is defined as a combination of previously independent hospitals, formed by either the dissolution of one hospital and its absorption by another, or the creation of a new hospital from the dissolution of all participating hospitals.4 Hospitals mergers might have been encouraged by some national policies such as the introduction of the Medicare Prospective Payment System and the growth of the managed care in the 1980s in the USA5,6 and the promotion of competition inside the health system market promoted by the Conservative Government since 1991 in the UK.2 These merger processes have determined substantial changes in healthcare markets.2 In the USA, in 1994, more than 10% of the hospitals resulted as involved in some form of mergers6 reaching a peak of 2,497 mergers in 2003.6 Similarly, in the UK, between 1997 and 2006 more than 100 mergers were started; in the early 2000s, there were 180 acute National Health Service (NHS) trusts while, by 2015, the number of acute foundation trusts and NHS trusts had dropped to 150 (17% reduction).2,7 In Italy, in recent years, the merger policy led to a 30% reduction in the number of hospitals: from 142 hospitals in 2011 to 99 in 20188 and also in Northern Europe, countries as Norway and Denmark undertook similar processes.9,10, Drivers for mergers are different and depend on countries and health system features: in Italy and in the UK, mergers were primarily driven by political decisions, while in USA, where federal or state government has less power to set the policy agenda, they were mainly entrepreneurial and market-driven.2,11 In literature, political and economic issues are reported as the main merger drivers. hospital mergers, again due to standardization of clinical protocols as well as from investments made to upgrade services at acquired hospitals, deployment or recruitment of additional medical staff to the acquired hospitals, and concentrating provision of complex services at a limited number of system hospitals to benefit from increased volume. Available at. We preferred to synthesize data through a narrative synthesis of the study findings focusing on outcomes of interest reporting statistically significant results. A number of forces, not least Obamacare, are prompting hospitals to consolidate. All of these factors affect a community, either through lost jobs, lost revenue to local stores and businesses, travel for services that were once offered nearby, higher out-of-pocket costs, and possibly lower quality care. At the moment, few studies indicate that the benefits related to mergers could be met counteracting the potential unintended consequences as decreased competition, higher prices for patients and reduced geographic coverage of services that mergers could cause. The quality assessment showed variability in the overall RoB, from moderate to low. The American Hospital Association (AHA) recently updated its 2016 quantitative and qualitative analysis of the impact of hospital mergers and acquisitions (M&As) on the cost and quality of care delivered at merged hospitals. Hospital mergers have a small, transient positive impact on staff job satisfaction in the year immediately before and after merger approval. 17 On the other hand, to the best of our knowledge, literature summarizing the impact of merger on HQM is still lacking. Modern medicine. Need to long-term commitment, organizational change and consolidation of hospital services and cultural change, Goal uncertainty and distance between decision makers and employees, strong differences in culture of the two hospitals and fear to be ruled by the other hospital, individual insecurity of professional positions reached, Increase: AMI mortality (AHRQ): EH (+4.96); Pneumonia mortality: EH (+3.14); Stroke mortality: EH (+4.94); Post-operative hip fracture: EH (+0.09); Birth trauma: HPH (+0.33%) EH (+ 0.74%); Neonatal mortality EH (+0.32); Decrease: Obstetric trauma HPH (1.14%) EH (1.08%); Decubitis ulcers HPH (0.76%) EH (0.56%), Selected infections due to medical care: EH (0.05%), Cultural differences between hospital merged. Nonetheless, a tendency towards a worsening includes also other clinical outcomes such as stroke mortality and readmissions. [17] The Synthesis Project, supra. Hospital mergers and acquisitions are a bad deal for patients. BJC, Saint Luke's announce plans to form $10 billion system. The strength of the evidence rating system resulted as insufficient for all considered indicators. Studies included in our analysis do not show strong evidence that hospital mergers impact HQM by bringing net improvements. Any disagreement in RoB evaluation was solved by discussion and, if necessary, a third reviewer was involved. To facilitate the synthesis of significant findings, table2 provides the studies main statistical significant results of healthcare quality measures classified into structure, process and clinical outcomes indicators. National Library of Medicine March 09, 2021. The database research resulted in 4,709 records while 4 articles were retrieved through hand search. One analysis found that prices at hospitals acquired by outofmarket hospital systems increase by about 17% more than unacquired, standalone hospitals. Many of the purported benefits of hospital mergersincluding coordination of patient care, sharing information through electronic medical records, population health management, risk-based contracting, standardizing care, and joint purchasingcan often be achieved through alternative means that do not impair competition. The driving force behind this is the ACA promulgated-need for data collection that requires sophisticated IT programs to capture the data the federal government requires. Hackensack Meridian Health Wednesday announced it now owns JFK Medical Center in Edison, a deal that creates the largest hospital chain in New Jersey. [3] Andrew Kitchenman. After checking for duplicates, 3,662 articles were analyzed for eligibility and 3,636 were excluded after the screening of titles and abstracts. Below are some common concerns and/or outcomes when hospitals or hospital systems merge: [1] Robert Pear. [21] Pear, supra. There is ample evidence that greater concentration in hospital markets leads to higher negotiated rates with insurers.[6], A 2011 Congressional Budget Office working paper found that mergers increase treatment intensity while additionally increasing inpatient mortality among heart disease patients. Regarding structural and process indicators, the reduction in the number of beds and in inpatients admissions (table3) could be related to a structural and functional remodelling of the merged hospitals that seek to pursue economies of scale setting the number of beds at 200300 and keeping the annual discharges at less than 10,000.1,17 Nonetheless, the tendency towards an operational reduction could depend on the pre-merger phase, especially for hospitals that merge due to financial constraints. The claim was that larger organizations would be able to harness economies of scale and offer better care. Preferred reporting items for systematic reviews and meta-analyses: the PRISMA statement. JFK Health in Edison, one of the last few remaining independent hospitals in New Jersey, will merge with one of the largest health provider chains in the state, according to an announcement by top officials at both nonprofit entities on. Many hospital . Cooper University Health Care said Friday it "will no longer pursue the acquisition" of Our Lady of Lourdes Medical Center and other assets of a Catholic-run health system. Federal government websites often end in .gov or .mil. This involvement could limit the disadvantages of the organizational change that could undermine clinical outcomes, especially in the short time.31. Kontopantelis E, Doran T, Springate DA, et al. Hospitals say that the cost of these data collection programs along with the maintenance makes it unaffordable to smaller community hospitals or hospitals that are in financial difficulty; therefore, it is more cost efficient to merge hospitals and maintain one large data system for many hospitals. On January 14, 2020, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) ordered six insurance companies to provide information that will allow the agency to study the effects of consummated physician group and healthcare facility mergers that occurred from 2015 through 2020. Two south Jersey hospital chains announced Thursday they are exploring a merger, a deal that would make them one of the most formidable health care networks in the outer-Philadelphia region. The new health care merger wave: does the Vertical, Good maxim apply? The strengths of this review include an a priori methodology with an accurate search strategy involving different electronic databases supplemented by hand searching, forward citation searching, study identification, appraisal, data extraction and description. Engstrm AKU, Rosengren K, Hallberg LRM.. CABG: coronary artery bypass grafting; CHF: chronic heart failure; ER: emergency room; FPF: fractured proximal femur; FTE: full time equivalent; FTR: failure to rescue (death among surgical patients with potentially serious but treatable in-hospital complications); IHD: ischaemic heart disease; IT: information technology; PCI: percutaneous coronary intervention; SNF: skilled nursing facilities. Genetics. Holm-Petersen C, stergaard S, Andersen P.. Our estimates indicate that the aggregate impact of hospital mergers is modest but not trivial. Getting exact numbers is difficult, he said, as staff often overlap between the university, MCG and AU Health. While traditional hospital mergers and acquisitions will continue, an uptick in non-traditional alliances will also occur in 2020. St. Francis Medical Center in Trenton, N.J., would close and many of its services would be shifted to another hospital if a proposed transaction between Capital Health and Trinity Health is approved, according to the Philadelphia Business Journal. New Jersey Superior Court Judge Joseph Quinn has accepted New Jersey Acting Attorney General Andrew Brucks approval of CentraState Healthcare System and Atlantic Health Systems plans to expand their successful partnership. and transmitted securely. Last night a dozen HPAE members and staff attended a public hearing on the affiliation of JFK Medical Center with Hackensack Meridian Health (HMH). in terms of mortality.14,15 Conversely, clinical outcomes seem to remain unchanged or rather worsened among acquired or merged hospitals.16. Studies included in our systematic review resulted to be heterogeneous in HQM analyzed and methodology adopted mainly providing only descriptive statistics and showing moderate to low risk of bias, few statistically significant results and inconsistent findings across them. Hospital mergers may create financial gains both through achieving economies of scale and negotiating higher prices. [9] The Synthesis Project, supra. increasing or decreasing of the same indicator in different studies), we performed a strength of evidence analysis according to literature.24,25. Checklist for Qualitative Research. A planned merger of Saint Luke's Health System with BJC HealthCare of St. Louis isn't about market share, but dealing with economic pressures in the business, local health execs say. First, our research has included only publicly available English-written articles; therefore, a language bias cannot be excluded. Despite this, to date, literature on the impact of hospitals mergers appears to have mainly focused on economic aspects. In our study, there is no strong evidence of improvement or worsening of HQM in hospital mergers. Characteristics of the studies included in the analysis are reported in table1. giving either their attorney general or state health department the ability to seek to block mergers that will negatively impact access to care, but the one included in HF 402 is one of the most robust, and . HQMs were analyzed through a narrative synthesis and a strength of the evidence analysis based on the quality of the studies and the consistency of the findings. Taken from the TapInto Camden, June 5, 2018 Camden, NJVirtuaHealth has signed an agreement to acquire Lourdes Health System from Trinity Health, including Our Lady of Lourdes Medical Center in Camden. Istituto Nazionale per la promozione della salute delle popolazioni migranti ed il contrasto delle malattie della Povert (INMP), Roma, Italia, 3 Most of the included studies provided only descriptive statistics and some outcomes (benefits or drawbacks) achieved after merging hospitals had been evaluated only in single studies consequently providing little inferential and generalizable information. The company reached its kingmaker status in the state through an aggressive merger and acquisition strategy, purchasing 28 competing hospitals from 1999 to 2019. Evidence Shows the Opposite. Studies have shown there is the potential for both positive and negative affects to patients/consumers, communities, and employees. Published May 21, 2021 Updated Oct. 22, 2021 Billions of dollars in Covid aid cushioned financial losses caused by the pandemic at some of the nation's largest hospital chains. While supporting the pending merger of Hackensack and Meridian, they urged the New Jersey Attorney General, On May 4, public hearings will be held in Hackensack, NJ and Neptune, NJ to review the Hackensack-Meridian merger. FTC challenges NorthShore, Advocate mega-merger in Illinois. Modern Healthcare, 18 December 2015,http://www.modernhealthcare.com/article/20151218/NEWS/151219865 Restructuring and Mergers. In: Hughes, R.G., editor. While hospital mergers have been on the rise in recent years, they are not new to the landscape of health care. Since a limited amount of studies currently exists, additional studies are needed. Marco Mariani and Leuconoe Grazia Sisti contributed equally to this work. Job losses within the community for hospital staff living in same locale. The short-term effects of merger on hospital operations, Hospital consolidation and costs: another look at the evidence, Ministero della Salute. Hackensack, Meridian merger may lead to new health insurance forays. 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