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BioScrip and Option Care Merge
BioScrip (NASDAQ: BIOS) and Option Care announced they are merging in perhaps the biggest home health deal of 2019 so far. Option Care provides home and alternate treatment site infusion services and is owned by Madison Dearborn Partners, LLC (MDP) and Walgreens Boots Alliance, Inc. (NASDAQ: WBA). BioScrip offers infusion and home care management solutions, and as one of the largest nationwide providers, it services nearly 70 service locations nationwide. It partners with physicians, hospital systems, and skilled nursing facilities to provide patients access to post-acute care services. BioScrip has made a few significant acquisitions itself over the past few years worth noting. It... Read More »
ResMed Moves into South Korea
Sleep apnea doesn’t discriminate. The condition occurs everywhere, and that’s where ResMed, Inc. (NYSE: RMD) is going. On March 8, the medical device maker bought HB Healthcare in Seoul, South Korea, for an undisclosed amount. HB provides home medical equipment provider and serves both reimbursed and cash-pay customers to assist with sleep apnea, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and other respiratory conditions. The move comes after the Korean government’s July 2018 decision to begin National Health Insurance Service reimbursement for sleep apnea diagnosis and CPAP treatment devices. One in five Korean adults could have sleep apnea, according to a study by Ansan... Read More »
Home Health & Hospice Is Primed for Consolidation
The Home Health & Hospice sector is far less fragmented than it was just five years ago. The sector has seen a lot of activity, thanks to the push by payors to move patients towards lower-cost post-acute care settings. That has attracted a lot of investor interest in recent years, and 2018 proved to be a watershed moment as the large-market private equity firms moved in to acquire or build national platforms. Deals by publicly traded companies have changed the sector in significant ways, too. Some merged, such as LHC Group (NASDAQ: LHCG) and Almost Family, Inc. have morphed to focus more on home health than other services, such as Encompass Health Corp. (NYSE: EHC), formerly known as... Read More »
HealthDrive Acquires New England Geriatrics
Bain Capital Double Impact and HealthDrive are wasting no time to expand. Although the private equity firm just acquired Healthdrive back in January, the portfolio company announced in February that it’s acquired New England Geriatrics. Founded in 1989, HealthDrive provides on-site dentistry, optometry, podiatry and audiology services to residents in long-term care facilities. New England Geriatrics will complement those services with its psychiatric services, currently provided to more than 13,000 patients in over 129 geropsychiatric hospital units, long-term care facilities, rest homes and assisted living facilities throughout Massachusetts and Connecticut. With a new behavioral... Read More »
Home Health & Hospice Deals Kick Off 2019
The Home Health & Hospice sector is predicted to see a great deal more mergers and acquisitions in 2019 than it has in recent years. Bullish industry watchers cite the growing momentum behind value-based health care delivered in lower-cost settings as just one tailwind that is expected to boost the sector. This sector closed out 2018 with 82 deals in our database, the best year for M&A since 2014, when 81 deals were made public. Four deals are already on the books, all announced in the first week of the new year. Three are from private equity sponsors or their platform companies. One deal echoed a growing trend of joint ventures between not-for-profit health systems and for-profit... Read More »Schedule a demo
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