It’s been a busy few months for respiratory therapy giant Lincare Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ: LNCR). The Clearwater, Florida-based subsidiary of German gases, engineering and health care company The Linde Group acquired home care company American HomePatient from Highland Capital Management in late 2015. Then, in early 2016, Lincare was ordered to pay $238,900 in civil monetary penalties […]
American HomePatient
Lincare, a major provider of in-home respiratory care and other services, will pay $238,900 in civil monetary penalties for violating the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), federal authorities announced Wednesday. This marks only the second time that the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) has imposed civil monetary penalties for a HIPAA violation. The […]
A German gases, engineering and health care company has moved to purchase one of the largest in-home respiratory care providers in the United States. Lincare Holdings Inc., a subsidiary of German corporation The Linde Group, has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Brentwood, Tennessee-based American HomePatient from Highland Capital Management. Lincare, based in Clearwater, […]
The market for home health care and hospice providers is heating up from a mergers and acquisitions standpoint, counting “unusually large” deals among the most recent transactions in the space. Mergers and acquisitions topped $1.4 billion total in 2010, marking it a record year due in large part to two milestone transactions, says a report […]