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 »

MEDNAX Moves into New Territory

Last week MEDNAX, Inc. (NYSE: MD), which now brands itself as a national medical company, has kept a steady focus on its Pediatrix Medical Group and American Anesthesiology divisions for years. But last week marked its foray into radiology and telemedicine, with the $500 million acquisition of Virtual Radiologic Corporation (vRad). The deal adds a network of 350 radiologists, more than 75% percent of whom are subspecialty trained. They read and interpret more than five million diagnostic imaging studies annually, which are archived in vRad’s proprietary picture archive and communication system (PACS). MEDNAX gains radiology coverage in more than 2,100 healthcare facilities across all 50... Read More »

American Addiction Centers Keeps Growing

Acadia Healthcare Company (NASDAQ: ACHC), a serial acquirer in the behavioral health care space, is getting some competition. American Addiction Centers, a subsidiary of AAC Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: AAC) announced its sixth acquisition in 2015, following its IPO in October 2014. The most recent acquisition was for The Oxford Centre, Inc., a 76-bed residential facility in Tupelo, Mississippi, for $35 million. According AAC, the center generated revenue of approximately $12.2 million and adjusted EBITDA of approximately $5.6 million for the year ended December 31, 2014. So far this year, Acadia Healthcare has announced just one acquisition, but then, it is still digesting some larger... Read More »

Busy Year for Billion-Dollar Health Care Deals

Last week we noted that April was a slow month for healthcare deals. Then we checked our database, DealSearchOnline.com, and discovered there have been 19 billion-dollar deal announcements already in 2015, through May 8th, with a combined total of $103.6 billion. The total for the entire year is about to top $120 billion, on 487 transactions. That’s not on track to beat 2014, yet. Read More »

Four Deals for Physician Medical Groups

The first full week of May saw a lot of activity, relatively speaking, in the Physician Medical Group sector. Four deals were announced, and not all by the usual acquirers. TeamHealth Holdings (NYSE: TMH), which took on Princeton Emergency Physicians in New Jersey for an undisclosed price, and IPC Healthcare (NASDAQ: IPCM) acquired Atlantic Hospitalist Group in Macon, Georgia. Eisner Pediatric & Family Center, a 95-year-old integrated community clinic in downtown Los Angeles, announced its acquisition of five physician practices in the surrounding area, three pediatric and two OB/GYN. Late in the week came word that South Shore Hospital in South Weymouth, Massachusetts would acquire... Read More »

Nueterra Buys into Benefit Management

Privately held Nueterra is the largest U.S. private-sector organization specializing in the development of joint equity partnerships with health systems, governments, hospitals and physicians’ groups. Recently, however, it has shifted its focus to the consumer population, and last week acquired Benefit Management, Inc., which provides customized health benefits administration programs to partially self-insured companies. The goal is to develop pay-for-value models for the new bundled payment system. Tally-ho. Read More »