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 | Dec 19, 2019 3:51 pm | Behavioral Health Care, Private Equity
A good number of behavioral health care deals have been announced in Decmeber 2019 and the majority of those target companies providing therapy services to individuals with autism and intellectual and developmental disabilities (I/DD). Seven deals in the Behavioral... Read More »
by Lisa Phillips | Dec 19, 2019 2:54 pm | Healthcare Market Updates
What a decade it’s been for health care! The Affordable Care Act, enacted in 2010, unleased a tidal wave of change on the U.S. healthcare landscape that continues today. Even on the services side, pharmaceuticals figured into several transactions, from acquiring... Read More »
by Lisa Phillips | Dec 19, 2019 2:40 pm | Home Health & Hospice, Managed Care
Humana Inc. (NYSE: HUM) is moving more deeply into hospice care with its recent announcement that it will acquire Philadelphia-based Enclara Healthcare from Consonance Capital Partners and Enclara management. Enclara is one of the largest hospice and pharmacy benefit... Read More »
by Lisa Phillips | Dec 16, 2019 12:12 pm | Hospitals
In its first sale of 2019, Tenet Healthcare Corporation (NYSE: THC) is divesting two of its Memphis-area hospitals to Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare, which operates six acute-care and one children’s hospital in and around Memphis. The not-for-profit health... Read More »
by Lisa Phillips | Dec 12, 2019 4:36 pm | Biotechnology, Pharmaceuticals
It’s been a busy year for mergers and acquisitions in the Biotechnology and Pharmaceutical industries. Combined spending on M&A is close to $268 billion mid-way through December, with 229 transactions reported. Although the number of deals is 34% lower than... Read More »