Over the past 20 years, private equity involvement in healthcare has steadily grown and private equity investors now play an extremely important role in the healthcare ecosystem.
Transactions & Valuation Issues
Healthcare deals in the first quarter of this year were 16.1 percent higher than the $26.1 billion quarterly average recorded from 2014-18, according to PwC.
While Minnesota has allowed only nonprofit health insurers to sell health plans in the state since 1973, a new law will upend that rule and possibly the market, according to Citypages.
Providence, R.I.-based Lifespan has launched a public campaign opposing Partners HealthCare's proposed acquisition of Care New England Health System, a deal that has been in the works for two years.
Pensacola, Fla.-based Emergency Care Partners, a regional provider of emergency medicine and outsourced emergency department management services, is merging with Gonzales, La.-based Ascension Emergency Physicians.
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Mergers and acquisitions for hospitals and health systems were down year over year in the first quarter of 2019, but activity was generally consistent with levels seen in recent years, according to the latest analysis by Kaufman Hall, a provider of enterprise…
UnitedHealth Group and Anthem are rumored to be late-round picks to takeover health plan and pharmacy benefit manager Magellan Health, according to Forbes contributor Bruce Japsen.
Greenberg Advisors, a Rockville, Md.-based mergers and acquisitions adviser to the healthcare industry, celebrated its 10-year anniversary in March.
Brentwood, Tenn.-based Duke LifePoint Healthcare and UnitedHealthcare reached an agreement for the health system's employed physicians after a four-month lapse, according to ABC 13 WLOS.
U.S. Bankruptcy Court Judge Ernest Robles has given the OK for Santa Ana Calif.-based KPC Group to acquire four hospitals from nonprofit hospital chain Verity Health, KPC Group announced.