The push in health care to get bigger and more efficient could be pushing Detroit-based Henry Ford Health System into the arms of a player that’s reinventing health care and has national ambitions.
Crain’s reported in October that the health system has held talks with Oakland, Calif.-basedKaiser Permanente, the nation’s largest nonprofit group health plan, which also owns hospitals and employs its own doctors.
Henry Ford officials have acknowledged they have been seeking a partner since a proposed merger with Beaumont Health System collapsed in 2013.
It’s not known what kind of talks Henry Ford Health has had with Kaiser. Possibilities range from the relatively small, such as a sharing of expertise or technology, to a full acquisition.
Kaiser showed earlier this month that it is in acquisition mode, buying the Seattle-based Group Health Cooperative in a $1.8 billion deal. Health care consolidation is a national trend driven in part by the Affordable Care Act. For the full article click here
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