Five deals between two health systems have been recently announced or completed in the last couple months.
Transactions & Valuation Issues
Birmingham, Ala.-based Encompass Health will make its home health and hospice business into an independent, publicly traded company, named Enhabit Home Health & Hospice.
The Association of American Medical Colleges and the Association of Academic Health Centers have approved a merger agreement.
Pennington, N.J.-based Capital Health and Trenton, N.J.-based St. Francis Medical Center have signed a definitive agreement to move forward with Capital Health's plan to acquire the Trinity Health hospital.
Twelve transactions involving health systems and hospitals have been announced, finalized or called off since Jan. 1:
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The proposed merger among Lifespan, Care New England and Brown University — all based in Providence, R.I. — would increase the economic impact of the academic medicine sector from $8.2 billion in 2020 to $11.5 billion by 2035, an independent…
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Dakota was selected by the state's Department of Human Services to provide coverage to residents under the state's Medicaid Expansion program.
Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian in Newport Beach, Calif., and Providence, a Catholic health system based in Renton, Wash., will end their affiliation by Jan. 31.
Although 2021 saw fewer healthcare transactions than in 2020, the sizes of the transactions were larger, with 16.3 percent being megamergers, according to a recent Kaufman Hall report.
New Hampshire's Justice Department announced a $21 million settlement with Centene and two of its subsidiaries — Granite State Health Plan and NH Healthy Families — over the payer's pharmacy benefit services.