About Lisa Phillips
Lisa Phillips is an experienced Healthcare M&A Expert, B2B writer, research analyst, and journalist. She joined Irving Levin Associates in December 2012 as Editor of The Health Care Information Source and all its companion products, the weekly Health Care Deal News, the monthly Health Care M&A News, the quarterly Health Care M&A Report and annual Health Care Services Acquisition Report.
Lisa has more than 25 years of reporting, writing and researching content for trade publications such as Advertising Age, American Demographics, The American Lawyer and Folio:. She helped to launch a new line of business research at Gartner, Inc., as Editorial Director of GartnerG2. Her previous position was as a Senior Analyst at eMarketer, Inc.
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by Lisa Phillips | Feb 11, 2020 3:48 pm | Behavioral Health Care, eHealth, Home Health & Hospice, Hospitals, Long-Term Care, Managed Care, Medical Devices, Physician Medical Groups
Every year, starting in November, the crystal balls come out and the prognostications begin. What will the new year bring? Who or what will make out better and who or what will not? We talked with Gary Herschman, a member of Epstein Becker Green’s Healthcare and Life... Read More »
by Lisa Phillips | Feb 7, 2020 3:18 pm | Hospitals, Long-Term Care
For the past two years, the volume of healthcare deals has soared to new heights. Much of the growth has been powered by financial buyers, private equity firms in particular, piling into the healthcare services sectors. In 2018, a new record for annual deal volume was... Read More »
by Lisa Phillips | Feb 7, 2020 2:56 pm | eHealth
The eHealth sector had a record 2019, with 222 deals now on the books, a roughly 9% increase over 2018’s volume, and $18.3 billion in spending. That momentum has carried over to the first month of 2020, with 19 eHealth deals in January and $1.8 billion in announced... Read More »
by Lisa Phillips | Feb 7, 2020 2:00 pm | Healthcare Market Updates
It’s a new year, a new decade, and not much has changed in healthcare mergers and acquisitions. January was a strong month for deal flow, which isn’t unusual because deals that didn’t close in December often spill over into the following month, which just happens to... Read More »
by Lisa Phillips | Feb 3, 2020 12:11 pm | Home Health & Hospice
The Federal Trade Commission has done it again. The agency closed its investigation into the merger of Aveanna Healthcare with Maxim Healthcare’s home health division, announced in February 2019. We’re accustomed to seeing headlines every few months saying... Read More »