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What’s next for Risant?
Kaiser Permanente grabbed everyone’s attention last year when it said it was creating Risant Health, a new and vague entity that acquired Geisinger and had plans to scoop up at least four more health systems that are focused on “value-based care.”
Well, nothing has happened since then, at least publicly. Instead, everyone has been playing the parlor game of guessing who those next systems could be. There are some rumblings that the next deal could be announced in the near future. After reading some recent hospital financial reports, it’s clear there are a handful of systems that mirror Geisinger’s shaky trajectory and could find themselves in Kaiser’s crosshairs.
