The Two Factors Impacting Home Health M&A In 2023

Two factors are having a substantial impact on home health care M&A right now — one affecting the seller and one affecting the buyer. Each is largely out of home health providers’ hands. The first is interest rates and general market conditions, and the other is the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) […]

Why 2021’s Record-Breaking M&A Was Over A Decade In The Making

As the value of home care services has become increasingly more apparent within the health care sector, it should come as no surprise that dealmaking in the space began to heat up last year. Despite this previous rise in M&A activity, a number of economic and sector-specific factors have opened the door to headwinds that […]

How A Valuation Gap Between Buyers, Sellers In Home-Based Care Is Affecting M&A

Rising staffing costs and unfavorable reimbursement dynamics in the home-based care space have created a seller-buyer pricing misalignment that has had ill effects on mergers and acquisitions. After a record-breaking 2021 for M&A in home-based care, the space has seen a sharp decline in deal activity. Although many experts are mostly optimistic about the long-term […]

HHCN FUTURE Conference: Topics that have Impacted Home Health M&A

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 Business Case For Expanding Into Behavioral Health Care

Home health providers have delved into different service lines during COVID-19. Among those are high-acuity care, such as hospital-at-home and SNF-at-home programs, palliative care and respite care. But one set of services, in particular, is beginning to make more sense for home health providers to offer: behavioral health. Strategically, expanding into behavioral health makes sense […]

Despite Home Health’s Proposed Rule, M&A Action Within 10% Of 2021 Already

Until the final home health payment rule comes down from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), M&A is expected to stay relatively quiet. However, some experts believe that if cuts are avoided through legislation or other means, M&A should see a massive boon. “If we’re successful as an industry and it’s pushed off […]

VOICES: Dexter Braff, President, The Braff Group

This article is sponsored by The Braff Group. In this Voices interview, Home Health Care News sits down with Dexter Braff, President, The Braff Group, to learn about today’s market for mergers and acquisitions in the home-based care environment. Dexter also shares his outlook for the near term for M&A, as well as insight for […]