Acquisition of Civitas Tops 2018 Behavioral Health Care Deals
The biggest deal in the Behavioral Health Care sector featured a growing trend in healthcare M&A: a publicly traded company taken private. In this case, it was Centerbridge Partners buying Civitas Solutions, Inc. (NYSE: CIVI) for approximately $1.4 billion. Founded in 1980, Civitas Solutions provides home- and community-based health and human services to must-serve individuals with intellectual, developmental, physical or behavioral disabilities and other special needs. The Boston-based company markets its services nationally as The Mentor Network and provides behavioral health care in 36 states. Under the terms of the agreement, Centerbridge will acquire all outstanding shares of... Read More »
2018’s Biggest Healthcare Deals by Sector
2018 isn’t quite in the rearview mirror yet. We’re still scouring the news feeds for straggling deal announcements, and that never stops, honestly. With approximately 1,850 deals reported so far for 2018, healthcare deal volume is 14% more than 2017. Before we nail the numbers down, it’s easy to spot the biggest deals (by disclosed price) in each of the 13 healthcare sectors we follow. Most should be familiar names, but you can’t follow every sector. That’s why we’re here. Enjoy. Read More »
How Moved My Turkey? November Deals Drop 26%
Calm down. So deal volume plummetted 26%, to a mere 136 deals compared with October’s 183 (that’s a monthly record, by the way). November is typically a slower month for deal making, what with a four-day Thanksgiving holiday diverting attention away from healthcare transactions. This November’s deal volume bested last year’s results by 24% (110 deals), at least. This is still the fourth quarter, after all, and December 31st is looming on the horizon. We expect to see some late-in-the-month action move the quarter’s goal posts toward higher ground. Last year’s fourth quarter ended with 396 transactions, virtually dead even with Q4:16’s 397 deals. We’ll likely beat those totals in 2018.... Read More »
BayMark Health Adds Two More Treatment Programs
BayMark Health Services, the opioid treatment platform formed by Webster Capital, added two more organizations to its roster in November. The deals bring its 2018 acquisition total to five. In all of 2017, the company made six deals public, so we’re expecting at least one more by the end of this year. St. Louis-based SpecialCare Hospital Management was the first target acquired in November. The comapny works with 46 acute care hospitals in 13 states to provide specialized inpatient stabilization and withdrawal management services for patients with opioid addiction. The company will retain its name and much of its staff. BayMark’s second deal took it into new territory.... Read More »
BHC Sector Booms as Acadia Healthcare Explores a Sale
Mergers and acquisitions in the Behavioral Health Care sector are booming in 2018, with 68 transactions made public through mid-October, 21% higher than the total in 2017. Now comes the report that one of the sector’s largest publicly traded companies, Acadia Healthcare Company (NASDAQ: ACHC), is in talks with a few interested parties to sell itself, and most likely go private. On October 18, Reuters reported the Franklin, Tennessee-based company was fielding interest from the private sector, naming KKR & Co. (NYSE: KKR) and TPG Global as two firms that have approached Acadia. With a market cap of $3.4 billion and debt of $3.14 billion (less $79.5 million cash), Acadia... Read More »Schedule a demo
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