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标题：The anatomy of a hospital system merger: the patient did not respond well to treatment
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作者：Martin Gaynor ; Adam Sacarny ; Raffaella Sadun 等
期刊名称：CEP Discussion Paper
出版年度：2022
卷号：2022
语种：English
出版社：Centre for Economic Performance
摘要：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.