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Behavioral Health
Behavioral Health
Behavioral health has quickly become the most sought after sector in health care M&A, with broad-based interest in residential and community based addictions and substance abuse, mental health, intellectual and developmental disabilities, and autism services providers.Read More >
Digital Health
Digital Health
Digital Health will be the bridge from fee-for-service to value-based care. With the stakes so high, the demand for – and valuation of – companies with technology-enabled tools to provide the right care, to the right patient, in the right setting, at the right time is extraordinary – and growing.
Home Health & Hospice
Home Health & Hospice
For the first time, every segment in home health and hospice – Medicare, Medicaid, and private duty – are pinging at the same time as buyers seek to build diversified post-acute continuums that address emerging alternative payment models.
Pharmacy
Pharmacy
While Specialty Rx captures the M&A headlines, the demand for traditional Home Infusion Therapy – and its substantially higher margins – far outstrips supply.
Urgent Care
Urgent Care
Although the M&A market for urgent care has softened a little since 2014 and 2015, the breadth of buyers interested in the space – notably hospitals, physician groups, and insurers that see urgent care as a critical gatekeeping mechanism – remains impressive.
Health Care Staffing
Health Care Staffing
As a result of the ACA, more covered beneficiaries have accessed the health care system, stimulating both demand for, and M&A interest in, health care staffing. The looming question? Whether reform initiatives will drive down hospital occupancy rates and blunt the conditions that gave rise to this renaissance of activity.
Home Medical Equipment
Home Medical Equipment
Now that competitive bid-like pricing has been rolled out nationally, the home medical equipment sector may well be entering a period of sustained stability – a period that may provide buyers with just enough go-forward confidence to begin selectively investing in the space again.
Ancillary Services
Ancillary Services
Given our extensive knowledge of the market forces driving health care M&A, we have been entrusted by providers adjacent to our core to lead their divestiture efforts.Recent News
Home Health Industry Likely Headed for M&A Rollercoaster
With the unknown changes in reimbursement starting in 2020 from the Patient-Driven Groupings Model, buyers are showing caution when it comes to home health acquisitions.
marketWATCH: Pharmacy Services M&A Struggles to Find its Footing
Pharmacy services mergers and acquisitions – an M&A market that continues to garner interest from a broad base of strategic and financial buyers, yet struggles to find any measure of consistency.
Crowded Urgent Care Market Suffers Growing Pains
Due to a saturated market and struggles with payment pressures, private equity companies are seeking to sell their urgent care platforms, which may be difficult with the number of buyers decreasing.
The Braff Group exhibiting at inaugural NICA meeting
Join us June 21-June 22 for the inaugural National Infusion Center Association meeting in Austin Texas. Managing Director Pat Clifford is attending and is eager to discuss the dynamics of the market and how