Hospital-system mergers reduce competition, elevating the importance of cost-containment measures for workers’ comp payers.
Eliminating unnecessary emergency-room visits and other known cost containment measures is increasingly critical, with a record number of hospital mergers expected to squeeze workers’ compensation payers.
Health-system mergers set a record during 2017, with 115 announced deals. The trend continues in 2018, NCCI Holdings Inc. reported in a July 2018 Quarterly Economic…
