Recent Health Care Deals, week ending 02.19.2016

AcquirerTargetPrice IBM Watson Health Truven Health Analytics$2.6 billion HCA North Texas Forest Park Medical Center at Frisco$96.25 million National owner/operatorAssisted living/memory care community$13.6 million Welltower Inc.Aston Gardens portfolio$555 million Stryker CorporationPhysio-Control International, Inc.$1.28... Read More »

Q4:15 Health Care M&A Results Are In

It’s hard to see a total of 370 deals in one quarter as a disappointment, but it may be, for some. That’s the current total of health care transactions we have for the last three months of 2015. Compared with the third quarter, however, the fourth quarter deal volume dropped almost 10%. Deal volume in Q3:15 has reached 409 deals, topping the 400-transaction mark for the first time ever. Healthcare services made up a robust 67% of the deal volume in Q4:15, the segment’s strongest showing in the previous four quarters. Thanks to the mega-deals in the Pharmaceutical segment, spending for the fourth quarter was $202.0 billion, up 1% compared with the third quarter’s... Read More »