20-YEARS OF INTELLIGENT DEALMAKING
IN HEALTH CARE MERGERS & ACQUISTIONS
THE BRAFF GROUP DIFFERENCE IS OUR MARKET IMMERSION STRATEGY
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 >
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.
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.Read More >
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 IT
Health Care IT
Health Information Technology 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.
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.
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
Recent Transaction: Beacon Health System acquired
The home health and private duty operations of Beacon Health Ventures have been acquired. The health system, located in Indiana, sought to divest its two Medicare Certified Home Health Agencies and one Private Duty Agency. The
The Braff Group Welcomes Brett Mankey as Health Care Information Technology Managing Director
Brett has an extensive background in mergers and acquisitions, business development, and strategy. In his career, he has been an international transactional lawyer and CEO and Board Member of several investor-backed technology companies.
Optimism greets investors’ sudden interest in autism therapy
Thanks to changes in insurance reimbursements from federal and state laws, Autism service providers are a very attractive acquisition to investors. But according to President Dexter Braff, this wasn't always the case. He spoke with
Recent Transaction: Encompass RX
Encompass RX, an Atlanta Georgia based specialty pharmacy, was acquired by CVS Health, Inc. The transaction enhances the existing specialty pharmacy service capabilities of CVS in the southeastern United States. The Braff Group provided exclusive