Hospital Mergers and Acquisitions From 2010 to 2019: Creating a Valid Public Use Database.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To create, analyze, and distribute the Strategic Hospital Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A) Database, a detailed resource of hospital M&As from 2010 to 2019.

Study setting and design

We conducted more than 2000 Internet searches to supplement, verify, and correct M&A identifications of American Hospital Association (AHA) survey data. We assessed the accuracy of the AHA survey and performed staggered difference-in-differences analyses to estimate the impact of measurement error on treatment effects capturing shifts in our measure of hospital market power.

Data sources and analytic sample

We analyzed 1537 M&A-related ownership changes from 2010 to 2019 from our analytic sample of 4896 unique acute care general hospitals or critical access hospitals derived from the

SUBMITTER: Oh H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12461126 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature