Unlikely Bedfellows

The mergers, affiliations, and collaborations have taken a new turn, but it's not the traditional mergers of health plans with other health plans and provider organizations with other provider organizations. Rather, we're seeing the "value chain" of health and human services start to morph with unusual combinations in both mergers and collaborations (see The Shifting Health & Human Service Value Chain - The Strategic Earthquake and The Shifting Health & Human Service Value Chain: Strategies & Options To Address The Current Market Challenges for more on the value chain).

The start of this wave was the interesting (and almost . . .