Merge & Acquisition in the healthcare sector

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Merge & Acquisition in the healthcare sector
As most organizations in the heath care are struggling with various issues of costs of compliance and technology and reimbursements, the idea of mergers and acquisitions have become common. The mergers and acquisitions are being used to generate revenue and also increase market share which is often small in size for most organizations. The drive behind mergers and acquisitions is currently driven by the inevitably high costs of operations, the idea of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and the favorable conditions of credit markets.
Most manufactures of drugs are currently buying while selling other business units to ensure the surplus in their accounts and also to control their overall costs in an economy that is dynamic. Most mergers are also happening because of different tax strategies, the stock market that is coming up rapidly and the interest rates that are low. The idea of cost pressure has however been cited as the main fuelling factor of mergers and acquisitions, while others follow after the desire to energies their different portfolios in hot segments like in the provision of drugs for hepatitis C and cancer. For example, Merck & Co. recently signed a deal of $4 billion with Idenix Pharmaceuticals Inc. to take up their hepatitis C segment and join it with their operations.

The idea of taxes has also fuelled most M & A, as most big pharmaceutical companies, medical equipment and …