Shortly after COVID-19 entered our collective lexicon, investments began pouring into the health care industry. The warts on the U.S. health care system that COVID-19 exposed were enough for lenders, backers and buyers to continue to throw money at the companies – or even ideas – that could cover up or eradicate those warts. Home-based […]
UnitedHealth Group (NYSE: UNH) – and its subsidiary Optum – completed the $5.4 billion acquisition of LHC Group on Wednesday. Now, the real work starts. We had to wait nearly a year for the deal to close, and we’ll have to wait longer to see the companies’ desired strategy come to fruition. But we can […]
This article is sponsored by the Braff Group. This article is based on a Home Health Care News discussion with Mark Kulik, Senior Managing Director of the Braff Group. The discussion took place on September 15, 2022 during the Home Health Care News FUTURE Conference in New York City. The article below has been edited […]
The home health market is made up of about 9,900 agencies, with businesses ranging in size, service mix and structure. The publicly traded home health companies, in particular, offer a snapshot of the industry in the present – and often a sneak peek at what’s to come. While the names of the publicly traded home […]
The COVID-19 crisis has raised a complicated question for home-based care executives as they plan for the year ahead: Is the cost of having a brick-and-mortar office location still worth it? Traditionally, home health and home care operators have maintained a corporate headquarters or local office as a place where administrative staff can come into […]
Transformative mergers and acquisitions took place in health care last year, and the types of deals suggest that a more diverse set of buyers could be on the hunt for home health and hospice acquisitions in 2018. In 2017, there were 115 M&A transactions involving hospitals and health systems, marking the highest level of activity […]
The family-owned business, passed on from generation to generation, is an archetype of American commerce. In practice, however, most “mom-and-pop” home care and home health agencies are content to take the money and run when it comes time to pass the business into new hands. “It’s rare to have a child to take over, rare […]
The strong role hospice plays in the post-acute care continuum is being realized more and more by consumers, driving a surge in mergers and acquisitions (M&A) activity and overall interest in the space by home health providers. In fact, during Amedisys, Inc.’s (Nasdaq: AMED) third-quarter earnings call, CEO Paul Kusserow declared the company’s focus on […]
Private equity investment in the home care and hospice sectors hit a new high in 2016. As of the third quarter of 2016, more than 50 home care and hospice transactions involved private equity buyers, compared with fewer than 30 of these transactions in all of 2015, according to proprietary data from M&A advisory firm […]
Home health agencies face a challenging Medicare reimbursement environment, but that has not slowed down merger and acquisition activity. Transactions in fact have increased significantly after a sluggish start to the year, and the high volume is expected to continue in 2016, industry professionals said during a recent webinar. “Several years ago, we predicted that home […]
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