Dr. Rita Numerof spoke with Healthcare Finance News on hospital mergers and acquisitions, and the challenges to make mega-mergers successful.

The reality is that around 40 percent of M&A in general, across industries, fail to deliver on the financial performance that the parents coming together in the first place wanted to achieve. The fact that there is so much evidence against the likelihood of success should be a data point the Department of Justice takes into account.

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