KKR’s PharMerica Makes Its First Deal
In late May, specialty pharmacy company PharMerica Corporation announced its first acquisition since being acquired by KKR & Co. (NYSE: KKR), with a minority investment from Walgreens Boots Alliance (NASDAQ: WBA), in August 2017. The company priovides institutional and community-based pharmacy services in the United States. When KKR took it private for $1.3 billion, it had trailing-12 month revenue of approximately $2.4 billion and EBITDA of $138 million. In December 2018, KKR announced a $1.3 billion deal for BrightSpring Health Services, then owned by Onex Corporation (ONEX.TO). BrightSpring, formerly known as ResCare, provides comprehensive home and community-based health services... Read More »
Private Equity Stays Active in Health Care
Nearly halfway into 2019, and PE firms are showing no signs of slowing as they swarm the healthcare industry. So far this year, there have been 71 deals with a private equity firm as the buyer, or roughly 11% of the total deals announced. That’s roughly the same amount as in the same period in 2018. In late May, Golden Gate Capital announced it purchased Ensemble Health Partners for a reported $1.2 billion from Bon Secours Mercy Health. The target company provides outsourced revenue cycle management (RCM) and operation solutions to hospitals across the country. It has more than 3,600 employees and partners with more than 60 hospitals in 30 states. Bon Secours bought the company in... Read More »
Autism Therapy Provider Hopebridge Changes Hands Again
Autism treatment companies are still hot targets in 2019. Eight transactions have been announced so far this year, compared with 20 in all of 2018. (That was an outsized year for every healthcare sector. There were nine deals for autism targets in 2017.) Private equity firms are trading platforms in this sub-sector. Just this year, Gryphon Investors bought Learn Behavioral from LLR Partners for an undisclosed amount. Now there’s the deal between Baird Capital and Arsenal Capital Partners for Hopebridge LLC. Hopebridge LLC was launched in 2005 in Indianapolis, Indiana to serve the growing need for autism treatment services. The clinic-based autism therapy business provides Applied... Read More »
Oak Hill Capital Exits AccentCare
May has been a busy month for deals in the Home Health & Hospice sector with eight transactions announced midway through the month. The latest is Oak Hill Capital Partners’ sale of its post-acute care platform, AccentCare, Inc. to Advent International. Financial terms were not disclosed. Today, AccentCare is the sixth largest home health platform and the third largest personal care platform in the United States. It serves health systems, physician practices and managed care organizations, and includes strategic joint ventures and partnerships. Its range of services includes personal, non-medical care to skilled nursing, rehabilitation, hospice care and care management. Oak Hill... Read More »
Telehealth: Answering the Call
If you’ve attended any healthcare deal-making conference in the last few years, you’ve heard that telehealth is one of the hottest target sectors going, right up there with autism services and physician practices (dermatologists, ophthalmologists, dentists, you name it). It’s caught in something of a perfect storm at the moment, as more states and regions implement laws to facilitate telehealth services. On the federal level, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services on April 5, 2019 finalized policies that increase plan choices and benefits, including allowing Medicare Advantage plans to include additional telehealth benefits. Private health insurers have been offering telehealth... Read More »Schedule a demo
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