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Mergers and Acquisitions An alliance or joining of two corporations or business entities will
often be structured as either an acquisition or a merger. An acquisition
can be an asset purchase, in which the buyer purchases the seller's assets
without any of its liabilities, or a stock purchase, in which the buyer
purchases the business's stock and takes over the whole business (including
any liabilities). In a health care entity, the type of transaction is
extremely important because of unique state and federal laws on such issues
as ownership of patient medical records, liabilities of Medicare and Medicaid
providers to the government, special licensing requirements, medical malpractice
liability, and other similar matters. A merger, or the joinder of two
business, shares many characteristics of both the asset purchase and the
stock purchase, but at the end of the transaction there is only one business
entity remaining. |
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