The Merger Of Retail With Health Plans—Strategy, Please

Not all mergers are the same. We've seen the mergers of health systems like Advocate Health Care and Aurora Health Care, and Ascension Health and Providence St. Joseph Health (see Ascension & Providence St. Joseph In Talks To Form Largest Hospital Operator In The U.S. and Aurora Health Care And Advocate Health Care To Merge), And, we've seen the mergers of specialty provider organizations like Uspiritus and Centerstone of Kentucky, and Meridian Behavioral Health and New Beginnings (see Centerstone & Uspiritus To Merge and Meridian Behavioral Health Acquires New Beginnings Minnesota). These are mergers of scale—bigger . . .