Jun
25
With Obamacare Intact, Path to Health-Care Deals Gets Clearer
ByWith Thursday’s Supreme Court ruling on President Barack Obama’s health-care overhaul out of the way, health insurers and hospitals can get back to making deals.
The court’s 6-3 ruling in the King v. Burwell case keeps U.S. subsidies flowing to more than 6 million people to help them afford health insurance. That means more paying customers for hospitals and insurers and lifts a cloud hanging over the health-care sector.
Uncertainty over the case “was the biggest obstacle to M&A that existed in the health-care industry,” said Bill Bithoney, a managing director in the consulting firm BDO USA’s health-care advisory practice. “People didn’t know what was going to happen.”…
With Obamacare Intact, Path to Health-Care Deals Gets Clearer
