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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 »

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 »