BJC and St. Luke's hospital merger could create $10 billion giant

• The most recent example was California-based Kaiser reaching into Pennsylvania for Geisinger, although that merger has not yet closed.

More, per Fierce Biotech: "Larger, cross-market deals like BJC and Saint Luke’s have become more common in the past year ... Multiple health policy researchers have warned that these deals are relatively understudied and, according to some prior analyses, very rarely translate to the quality and consumer cost savings often touted by health systems."