LevinPro HC Stat of the Week: Private Equity Investments in the Behavioral Health Care Market
Source: LevinPro HC February 2026 In another preview of our 2026 Healthcare Services Acquisition Report, we’re highlighting private equity (PE) investment activity in the Behavioral Healthcare (BHC) market. Despite deal volume rising for the first time in three years (a 44% increase), PE’s involvement in the BHC space has steadily declined since the high of 61% in 2022 to 32% in 2025. The decline of PE investment in the BHC market has given room for strategic and not-for-profit buyers to make an impact on the industry. Read More »LevinPro HC Stat of the Year: Healthcare Services M&A Stabilize
Source: LevinPro HC, December 2025 Despite challenging macroeconomic conditions and market uncertainty, healthcare services M&A remained stable, with preliminary numbers showing a modest 3% increase in deal volume. The chart above shows the year-over-year change based on transaction data captured in our LevinPro HC platform. At the time of writing, deal volume for healthcare services in 2025 stands at 1,477, compared with 1,434 in 2024. And we expect more deals to surface in the upcoming barrage of quarterly and annual reports. Activity in the Behavioral Health Care sector surged in 2025, with a 42% increase in deal volume year over year. The sector benefited from a variety of... Read More »LevinPro HC Stat of the Week, November 7, 2025
Source: LevinPro HC, November 2025 Following the launch of General Atlantic and Hospital for Special Surgery’s new platform focused on ambulatory surgery centers, we examined where health systems have been directing their attention in the M&A market. The chart above shows how, from Q3:24 to Q3:25, health systems were much more aggressive in their push into alternative healthcare sectors outside of Hospitals, with 58% of their acquisitions in Q3 focused on non-hospital healthcare entities. The data doesn’t weigh the impact of the outpatient networks usually involved in health system mergers, but we thought this chart gives a clear visual to show the direction health systems are going in... Read More »
Healthcare M&A Activity Increases 7% in Q3:25
Healthcare merger and acquisition activity increased in the third quarter of 2025, with 532 deals announced, according to new acquisition data from LevinPro HC. Activity in Q3:25 was 7% higher than the 495 deals announced in the second quarter, and 3% higher than the 512 deals announced in Q3:24. The most active sector for M&A during the quarter was Physician Medical Groups (PMG), which had 130 deal announcements, making up nearly a quarter of all Q3 healthcare transactions. The dental specialty alone had 66 deal announcements, accounting for more than 50% of all PMG deal announcements during the quarter. The eHealth sector was the second most active with 83 deal announcements. Within... Read More »
