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Recent Health Care Deals, week ending 12.04.15

AcquirerTargetPrice Acadia Healthcare CompanyMMO Behavioral Health Inc.N/A WellStar Health System5 Tenet hospitals in Atlanta$661 million Prime Healthcare ServicesMemorial Hospital of Salem CountyN/A Molina HealthcareMedicaid business of Better Health NetworkN/A Kaiser PermanenteGroup Health Cooperative$1.8... Read More »

November Health Care Deal Volume Slows Further

  The fourth quarter of 2015 isn’t building the M&A momentum we saw a year ago. Preliminary deal volume for November 2015 sits at 107 deals, which bests the previous month’s 99 deals by 8%, but is a solid 28% behind the same month in 2014. This is how health care M&A is playing out in 2015. The burst of activity that carried over from December 2014 into the first quarter has been petering out ever since. Even as 2015’s total deal volume will surpass last year’s record of 1,312 transactions (see story, page 1), this year was front-loaded with deals. A new record for first-quarter deal volume was set this year, with 366 transactions now on the books. By contrast, 2014 deal... Read More »

Update: Billion-Dollar Health Care Deals, 2015

A recent post here noted there were more billion-dollar deals than in years past, and the amount was higher than any other year. Along comes the Pfizer-Allergan deal at $160 billion, and we have revised the numbers upward. The key takeaways: 51 billion-dollar-plus deals in 2015 (4% of the 1,282 total), with $549.4 billion spent on those deals (90% of the current $549.4 billion). We’ll have more in the December issue of Health Care M&A News. Read More »