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Hospital M&A Keeps Pace with Medicaid Expansion
Hospitals in states that expanded Medicaid coverage under the Affordable Care Act typically are healthier, financially, than those in states that have not expanded that coverage. What about hospital mergers and acquisitions in the expanded states, compared with those that haven’t expanded Medicaid? With only two years of data, it’s too soon to spot a trend, on the surface. Effective in April 2010, the ACA provided states the option to receive federal Medicaid matching funds to cover adults with incomes up to 133% of the Federal Poverty Level to get an early start on the 2014 Medicaid expansion. When the first open enrollment period ended in March 2014, 25 states had expanded... Read More »Recent Health Care Deals, week ending 02.02.2016
AcquirerTargetPrice Abbott LaboratoriesAlere Inc. $5.8 billion TE ConnectivityCreganna Medical Group$895 million Carter Validus Mission Critical REIT IIHeritage Park portfolio$33.9 million Larkin Community HospitalPalm Springs General Hospital$40 million St. Elizabeth HealthcareNew Horizons Medical Center$1.05... Read More »Hospital M&A Revs Up in February
Two days into February 2016 and we’ve recorded four hospital transactions. Considering there were only two in all of January, this action is impressive. One was a straight real estate deal from Carter Validus Mission Critical REIT II, Inc., which paid $33.9 million for Sherman, Texas-based Heritage Park Surgical Hospital and Visionary Medical Imaging. Both facilities were built in 2005. The hospital has 57,576 square feet, and was renovated in 2010 to become a full-service surgical hospital. VMI is an 8,055 square foot facility. The deal actually closed in November 2015, but wasn’t announced until now. Larkin Community Hospital, a for-profit, 146-bed hospital in South Miami,... Read More »2015 Health Care M&A Beats All Records
It’s déjà vu all over again. 2014 was a record-breaker for health care M&A, with 1,317 transactions and spending at an astronomical $387 billion. Then 2015 came and went and, once again, we’re writing about a record-breaking number of transactions, 1,460 currently, and astronomical spending of $563 billion. Read More »
