North Carolina-based VIA Health Partners announced that it has expanded into home-based primary care with the acquisition of Equity Health. Financial terms were undisclosed.
Equity Health offers a full spectrum of primary care services in the home, with the goals of reducing burden on caregivers, reducing hospitalizations and improving chronic disease management. The company also offers patients and families 24/7 access to a nurse practitioner.
Operating since 1978, VIA Health Partners is an independent, community-based not-for-profit provider of hospice and serious illness care, serving more than 5,000 patients and families daily across 38 counties across North and South Carolina.
Part of the impetus for the acquisition was to better position VIA for participation in the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ Accountable Care Organization Realizing Equity, Access and Community Health (ACO REACH) payment model. The organization is currently enrolled in ACO REACH, but felt that home-based primary care could boost patient attributions and better coordinate services for patients aligned with the program.
In addition to ACO REACH, offering home-based primary care in time may give VIA Health Partners access to additional payment models and revenue streams that are focused on chronic disease management. Home-based primary care will also allow for greater continuity of care and smoother transitions into hospice or other specialty services when appropriate.
According to data captured in the LevinPro HC database, this marks the 72nd Home Health & Hospice (HH&H) transaction announced in 2025. There were 96 HH&H deals announced during full year (FY) 2024, 100 announced during FY 2023 and 116 announced during FY 2022.
