Transactions & Valuation Issues

Columbus, Ohio-based Nationwide Children's Hospital and Cambridge, Mass.-based RNA-targeted therapeutics provider Sarepta Therapeutics entered into a research and option agreement on the hospital's microdystrophin gene therapy program.

Healthcare industry leaders cite merger and acquisition activity as the industry's preferred growth strategy for 2017.

Dallas-based Tenet Healthcare is seeking to further refine its hospital operations portfolio by selling hospitals in noncore markets.

Three New Hampshire hospitals ─ Manchester-based Catholic Medical Center, Wolfeboro-based Huggins Hospital and Peterborough-based Monadnock Community Hospital ─ completed their affiliation agreement to form GraniteOne Health.

Most BlueCross BlueShield of South Carolina Blue Essentials policyholders will no longer be able to access out-of-state healthcare services at in-network rates effective Jan. 1, reports The Post and Courier.

With one week left before the Tennessee Commissioner of Health is slated to decide on the proposed merger between Kingsport, Tenn.-based Wellmont Health and Johnson City, Tenn.-based Mountain States Health Alliance, the Federal Trade Commission once again voiced its opposition…

The following healthcare mergers, acquisitions and general partnerships took place or were announced in the past week.

Deerfield, Ill.-based Surgical Care Affiliates is merging with Optum, a health services company and part of UnitedHealth Group.

Minnetonka, Minn.-based UnitedHealthcare and Hartford, Conn.-based Aetna are protesting their bid losses to manage Pennsylvania Medicaid benefits that cover 2.2 million beneficiaries, The Philadelphia Inquirer reports.

Quick Med Claims, a medical billing service, has acquired the Holdsworth Group's Emergency Medical Billing Division in Cromwell, Conn.