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FastMed Plus NextCare Equals Urgent Care Giant
Consolidation continues in the urgent care services sector, as consumers and healthcare provider organizations look for lower-cost services outside hospital walls. One of the largest deals in this area in 2018 is FastMed Urgent Care’s acquisition of NextCare Holdings Inc., a portfolio company of Alcentra Capital Corp. since 2016. FastMed, the business name for Urgent Care Holdings of America, LLC, is backed by Abry Partners and BlueMountain Capital Management. The company owns and operates 110 clinics in Arizona, North Carolina and Texas. NextCare operates 141 facilities in Arizona, Colorado, Kansas, Missouri, New Mexico, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Texas, Virginia and Wyoming. The... Read More »
ScribeAmerica Inks Another Medical Scribe Deal
ScribeAmerica, a subsidiary of HealthChannels, announced its acquisition of PhysAssist Medical Scribes on November 1, bringing its total number of scribes close to 19,000. In 2008, PhysAssist had two corporate employees and 35 scribes. A year after TeamHealth Holdings acquired it in October 2014 with minority investors Vesey Street Capital Partners and Chicago Growth Partners, it had 2,500 professionals in 30 states. It now has approximately 3,500 scribes in 36 states. Moody’s Investors Service rated the $160 million debt-financed acquisition as credit negative, because it would increase the company’s financial leverage and elevate integration risk. The transaction, including... Read More »
PE Firms Target Healthcare Staffing Services
Who says good help is hard to find? Just about every healthcare provider in the United States, it seems. The growing shortage of doctors and nurses, together with the recent near-record low U.S. unemployment rates, has brought the healthcare staffing services segment into sharp focus for investors. Through mid-November, 18 deals targeting these companies have been announced in 2018, compared with 16 in 2017 and 10 in all of 2016. Five of this year’s deals had private equity firms as acquirers, and five others were made by PE-sponsored firms. The most recent transaction was announced by HNI Healthcare, a portfolio company of Sante Ventures based in Austin, Texas. HNI recruits,... Read More »
ZT Corporate Scoops up Six Freestanding Emergency Centers
ZT Corporate, a Houston-based private equity firm formerly known as ZT Wealth, won its stalking-horse bid to acquire six freestanding emergency centers in the Houston area, operating under the Neighbors Emergency Center brand. Founded in 1997, the firm owns and manages Altus Health, whose operations include a surgical hospital, cancer centers and three freestanding emergency centers, all in Texas. Neighbors was founded in Pearland, Texas in 2008 and opened its first center in 2009. At its peak, the company operated 33 centers across three states. However, increased competition, too much corporate overhead and “less favorable insurance payor conditions” led to financial... Read More »
Avella Specialty Pharmacy Goes to OptumRx
The auction for Riordan, Lewis & Haden’s portfolio company, Avella Specialty Pharmacy, was well under way back in February, according to industry sources. UnitedHealth Group’s (NYSE: UNH) Optum was reported to be in the lead, and then things went dark. It wasn’t until UnitedHealth Group’s third quarter earnings report was published on October 16 that the story ended. Some time in the third quarter, Optum acquired Avella and tucked it into its OptumRx pharmacy services subsidiary. The price wasn’t disclosed, but PEHub cited two sources saying the deal was valued at around $325 million. That’s pretty low, considering Avella’s previously disclosed... Read More »Schedule a demo
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