May 2015 Health Care M&A vs. May 2014
Health care deals were fairly strong in the early weeks of May 2015, but deal makers seemed to take a vacation around the Memorial Day weekend, and didn’t get back to work until the first week in June. Here’s how May 2015 transactions compare with the same month the year before, when M&A was booming through the second quarter. The difference isn’t dramatic, but so far in Q2:15, we’ve counted approximately 228 transactions, compared with 325 in Q2:14. Stay tuned. Read More »McKesson Sells its Care Management Business
McKesson Corporation (NYSE: MCK) is divesting its Care Management business, which will be renamed AxisPoint Health. Its offerings include complex and chronic case management services to payers and other risk-bearing entities through a network of nurses and clinicians in 24 states. The buyers are Comvest Partners and Mosaic Health. Financial terms were not disclosed. Read More »NextCare Urgent Care Expands in Arizona
NextCare Holdings Inc., already the country’s largest privately held urgent care provider, grew even more last week with the acquisition of three urgent care facilities in its home state of Arizona. The newest additions are two Troyer Urgent Care centers in Flagstaff and Lake Havasu City, and Chino Valley Medical Center in Chino Valley. They bring the company’s total to 35 locations within the state, and extend its services to more than 90% of the state’s population. The Chino Valley center will also provide primary care services. Financial terms were not disclosed. Read More »Fast Start for Persivia
A week after announcing its formation, privately held Persivia made its first acquisition. The Lowell, Massachusetts-based company, which focuses on population health, precision medical and chronic care management solutions, purchased Alere Analytics, which developed its own real-time Clinical Decision Support and Chronic Care management technologies. More acquisitions may be forthcoming, but for now, the Alere Analytics platform is expected to create “groundbreaking advancements” in chronic care management. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Read More »FastMed Urgent Care Goes to ABRY Partners
Yet another major transaction for an urgent care provider was announced last week, as Comvest Partners sold its interest in FastMed Urgent Care to ABRY Partners, for an undisclosed price. FastMed is the second largest independent urgent care organization in the United States, with 52 clinics in North Carolina and 35 in Arizona. In April, UnitedHealth Group’s Optum (NYSE: UNH) paid an undisclosed sum for MedExpress, which operates 141 full-service neighborhood medical centers in 11 states. The month before that, Humana Inc. (NYSE: HUM) sold its urgent care subsidiary Concentra Inc. to a joint venture formed by Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe and Select Medical Corporation (NYSE: SEM)... Read More »Schedule a demo
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