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FastFinance: M&A outlook; 2026 prep for cuts

Published 5 hours ago

HFMA’s FastFinance newsletter is now a podcast. Host Rich Daly discusses the most current and relevant healthcare news, delivered in an easily digestible format.

Health systems are expected to ramp up their dealmaking activity next year but deep divides have emerged between for-profit and not-for-profit approaches.

Also, this week’s Weird Number: $172 billion. That the amount of projected federal 10-year savings from site-neutral payment requirements on hospital billing in Medicaid included in a proposed Republican reconciliation package.

One More Thing: Five approaches health systems are using to get ready for the 2027 start of federal Medicaid cuts.

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