What makes the urgent care sector unique is we are seeing hospitals, physician groups, and insurers get in the action – not just for the revenues urgent care can generate, but also for the role it can play as an entry-point into the system that can be leveraged to direct patients to the most effective venues of care.
A large number of hospitals and health systems are expanding their home health businesses through partnering or acquiring home health agencies. From 2016 to 2018, 177 of these hospitals or health systems acquired home health care companies.
In what will likely go down as a landmark decision that will ripple throughout the insurance and behavioral health industry, "a federal judge in Northern California ruled that a unit of UnitedHealth Group, the giant health insurer, had created internal policies aimed at effectively discriminating against patients with mental health and substance abuse disorders to save money.”
The market for Substance Use Disorder treatment facilities still remains very active, but buyers are starting to explore other options. In a report published by Vista Research Group, Dexter Braff explores market trends in behavioral health, noting that buyers are pivoting in other directions like non-residential counseling programs and medication-assisted treatment programs.
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The temporary ban on the Medicare Provider Enrollment Moratoria became effective last month. It's expected that this move by CMS will allow agencies to improve patient access to home-based care. Managing Director Mark Kulik spoke with Home Health Care News regarding the positive impact this will have in the industry. “I think competition is what’s
It was a busy fourth quarter in 2018 for home medical equipment mergers and acquisitions. Due to substantive changes in CMS’s decision to pause competitive bidding for two years, buyers are showing interest in the sector again. HME Managing Director Pat Clifford also commented to HME News that interest is strong not only in
In an interview with The DealRoom, Director of Finance Steve Garbon shared some intriguing insight on future M&A activity, deal disasters, and unrealistic valuation expectations. If we have to address those concerns before going to market, our nicheness allows us to have a comprehensive database of transactions for each of our sectors…so we have cold hard
Two mega healthcare and pharmacy deals are in the works, which shows that bigger companies continue to get bigger. The CVS-Aetna merger and the Cigna-Express Scripts merger further consolidate the market, a trend Reg Blackburn notes has been happening for a long time. He explains more in an interview with Drug Topics. “I think it’s part
Autism, Mergers and Acquisitions, and You Dexter Braff Speaking: Monday, January 14 | 2:15 PM Perhaps the worst kept secret in health care mergers and acquisitions is that the market for autism service providers is positively scalding. But why? What market forces have converged to push market valuations to levels typically reserved for the
