Nashville's Booming Healthcare Industry Reaches Nearly $40B in Economic Impact

Nashville's Booming Healthcare Industry Reaches Nearly $40B in Economic Impact

By 2022, one in six new jobs will be in healthcare across the country. In Tennessee, healthcare will account for one in every 11 new jobs with Nashville home to hundreds of companies that have a national and even global impact. Last year, healthcare contributed $38.8 billion and 249,345 jobs to Nashville’s regional economy.

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Complex Reasons Why Healthcare M&A is Booming

Complex Reasons Why Healthcare M&A is Booming

Some experts see the frantic healthcare M&A activity as a pure response to healthcare reform. However, all of this deal-making indicates a long-overdue restructuring of the industry among other highly complex factors. Health systems are trying to solve for equally powerful forces: a more precise payment setting and increasingly savvy consumers. Cohesion of business models and technologies is another major factor behind the M&A boom.

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Strategy is Key to Surviving Insurance Consolidation

Strategy is Key to Surviving Insurance Consolidation

Hospitals must rethink their mission and strategy due to escalating health costs, insurer consolidation, ACA implementation and increased price sensitivity by employers and consumers. Operating margins are diminishing and pressure to keep premiums down is increasing. Therefore, increased enrollment is simply necessary stay in business and consequently the commercial insurance market is shrinking.

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