Transactions & Valuation Issues

Denver-based DaVita Kidney Care, a division of DaVita HealthCare Partners, will join Inspira Health Network in southern New Jersey.

Prospect Medical Holdings, a for-profit hospital operator based in Los Angeles, will pay $300 million to acquire Springfield, Pa.-based Crozer-Keystone Health System, according to The Philadelphia Inquirer.

National and Missouri-based advocacy groups are asking Director of the Missouri Department of Insurance John Huff to publicly complete the final review of the Aetna-Humana merger, according to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.

Cuba (N.Y.) Memorial Hospital and Buffalo, N.Y.-based Kaleida Health entered into partnership Tuesday.

The Visiting Nurse and Hospice for Vermont and New Hampshire has approved an affiliation agreement with Lebanon, N.H.-based Dartmouth-Hitchcock.

National medical group MEDNAX has acquired Northwest Anesthesia, a private physician group practice based in Minneapolis.

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

San Diego-based AMN Healthcare will acquire medical coding and consulting company Peak Health Solutions, based in Franklin, Tenn.

Hartford, Conn.-based Aetna sold $13 billion of new bonds Thursday to fund its acquisition of Louisville, Ky.-based Humana.

Southern Winds Hospital in Hialeah, Fla., has been sold to 4225, an affiliate of Millennium Management in Miami, according to the South Florida Business Journal.