Schweiger Dermatology Group Acquires United Skin Specialists 

Schweiger Dermatology Group Acquires United Skin Specialists 

Brown Gibbons Lang & Company announced that it acted as an advisor to Schweiger Dermatology Group (SDG) in the acquisition of United Skin Specialists LLC. Tonka Bay Equity Partners LLC, a venture capital and private equity firm based in Minnetonka, Minnesota, was the seller.  United Skin Specialists is a healthcare practice management group providing services to dermatology offices in the Midwest. The company has been providing patient-centric medical and cosmetic dermatology care in Illinois, Minnesota and Missouri for more than 50 years. It has 10 office locations.  Founded in 2010, SDG is one of the largest group dermatology practices in the Northeast, with 110 offices and... Read More »
Schweiger Dermatology Group Acquires Two New Jersey Practices 

Schweiger Dermatology Group Acquires Two New Jersey Practices 

NavaDerm Partners, LLC, a portfolio company of BelHealth Investment Partners, LLC announced that it was selling two of its New Jersey practices to Schweiger Dermatology Group (SDG).   The practices are Millburn Laser Center and Scherl Dermatology.   Millburn Laser Center provides dermatology care out of one location in New Jersey. According to its website, the practice has five providers on staff.  Scherl Dermatology is a four-physician practice that operates out of one location in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey.   Founded in 2010, SDG is the largest group dermatology practice in the Northeast, with more than 90 offices and more than 300 healthcare providers in its... Read More »
RealTime Software Solutions Acquires Devana Solutions

RealTime Software Solutions Acquires Devana Solutions

RealTime Software Solutions, LLC, backed by Philadelphia-based private equity firm LLR Partners, has announced its acquisition of Devana Solutions, LLC for an undisclosed price. This strategic move delivers the most comprehensive and advanced end-to-end site platform available to the market. Devana Solutions’ cloud platform provides clinical trial data analytics for central research operations (CRO) professionals. The platform supports real-time collaboration between central research operations professionals and decentralized clinicians serving patients in diverse communities. RealTime Software Solutions provides software products for clinical trial research sites, site networks,... Read More »
Managed Care Company GoHealth Acquired by Centerbridge Partners

Managed Care Company GoHealth Acquired by Centerbridge Partners

Medicare Advantage programs and ancillaries are bringing in big bucks and new buyers. On August 19, Centerbridge Partners, L.P. announced its acquisition of GoHealth, LLC for a reported $1.4 billion from Norwest Equity Partners, the second-largest managed care deal in 2019, so far. The company is a leading provider of Medical Advantage products in the direct-to-consumer channel. Its platform combines technology, data science, and proprietary algorithms to match consumers with the best healthcare policy and carriers in the Medicare, Individual & Family and Small Group markets. Centerbridge and GoHealth broke off negotiations earlier in August over price, according to reports in... Read More »
Autism Therapy Provider Hopebridge Changes Hands Again

Autism Therapy Provider Hopebridge Changes Hands Again

Autism treatment companies are still hot targets in 2019. Eight transactions have been announced so far this year, compared with 20 in all of 2018. (That was an outsized year for every healthcare sector. There were nine deals for autism targets in 2017.) Private equity firms are trading platforms in this sub-sector. Just this year, Gryphon Investors bought Learn Behavioral from LLR Partners for an undisclosed amount. Now there’s the deal between Baird Capital and Arsenal Capital Partners for Hopebridge LLC. Hopebridge LLC was launched in 2005 in Indianapolis, Indiana to serve the growing need for autism treatment services. The clinic-based autism therapy business provides Applied... Read More »