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 | Nov 4, 2019 2:10 pm | Healthcare Market Updates
October is typically a flighty month in the annual investing cycle. Spooky things can happen as the month winds down to Halloween. With the now-hot/now-not sentiments swirling around the equity markets, it was a relief not to witness a meltdown after all ended the... Read More »
by Lisa Phillips | Nov 4, 2019 10:27 am | Medical Devices
It’s a deal that will likely spawn more deals. Medical device giant Stryker Corporation (NYSE: SYK), with a market cap of $76.4 billion, is acquiring its smaller rival, Wright Medical Group N.V. (NASDAQ: WMGI), with a market cap of $2.8 billion. Stryker will pay... Read More »
by Lisa Phillips | Oct 28, 2019 2:12 pm | Private Equity, Rehabilitation
It’s been a quiet year in the Rehabilitation M&A market, at least through October. There have been 27 deals announced that targeted rehabilitation facilities only, a decline of 37% compared with the 43 deals announced in the full year of 2018. True,... Read More »
by Lisa Phillips | Oct 25, 2019 12:16 pm | Hospitals
It took almost 10 years and a lot of changes, but Dartmouth-Hitchcock and the owner of Catholic Medical Center are merging. Nine months after signing a letter of intent in January 2019, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Health and GraniteOne Health made it to the definitive... Read More »
by Lisa Phillips | Oct 21, 2019 2:25 pm | Managed Care
Molina Healthcare (NYSE: MOH) has been off the acquisitions circuit for some time, as management issues were being worked out. The insurer’s last completed deal was announced in April 2016, in fact. That transaction targeted Universal American’s (NYSE:... Read More »