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MedEquities Realty Acquires Vibra IRF Assets
Vibra Healthcare LLC has sold the real estate assets of its 60-bed Southern Indiana Rehabilitation Hospital, an inpatient rehabilitiation facility (IRF) it acquired on April 30 this year from KentuckyOne, a subsidiary of Ascension. The hospital is located in New Albany, Indiana, a suburb of Louisville, Kentucky, where KentuckyOne is based. The buyer, MedEquities Realty Trust, Inc. (NYSE: MRT), agreed to pay $23.4 million for the 64,380-square foot facility, with an average price-per-bed of $390,000. The company concurrently executed a 15-year triple-net lease of the IRF with Vibra at an initial lease rate of 9.0% with annual escalators. Vibra will convert the 26 beds currently used as... Read More »
Health Care Weekly Deals, Week Ending 6-22-18
We hope you are enjoying your membership to HealthCareMandA.com. This Health Care M&A Weekly chart below is a selection of transactions announced during the prior week(s). The deals presented here are further elaborated in the monthly newsletter, Health Care M&A News, and in the quarterly report. This information also appears in our online database, Deal Search Online. Visit www.dealsearchonline.com to open a guest account and begin your search. eHealth Acquirer Target Price AlayaCare Canesto Systems, Inc. N/A Quest Analytics BetterDoctor N/A Verscend Technologies Cotiviti Holdings, Inc. $4.9 billion Anju Software MDC Partners N/A Wildflower Health Circle Women’s Health... Read More »
Community Psychiatric Clinic Merges with Navos
Two Seattle-based not-for-profits have teamed up to scale up, essentially. Community Psychiatric Clinic (CPC) and Navos, a wholly owned affiliate of MultiCare Health System, announced their merger on June 14. Navos is the public behavioral health provider for more than 40% of all youth served in the King County community behavioral health system, and is the largest behavioral health provider in Washington state. CPC operates four clinics in Belltown, Lake City, North Gate and Wallingford, and provides mental health, substance abuse disorder treatment programs, as well as supportive housing services. Navos offers a full spectrum of behavioral health services to more than 12,000 low-income... Read More »
Veritas Capital Doubles Down on Digital Health
Veritas Capital Management has made some aggressive moves into the digital health space in recent years. Its investment focus is on companies that provide critical products and services, not just in healthcare, but also in aerospace and defense, communications, energy and education. So its recent activity is interesting, and expensive. In April 2016, Veritas paid $820 million to acquire Verisk Health from its parent, Verisk Analytics, Inc. (NASDAQ: VRSK). Verisk Health provides data services, analytics and advanced technology to support value-based healthcare delivery and payment systems. At the time of the sale, it had 350 clients in the United States. The price consisted of $720 million... Read More »
Roche Builds on its Foundation Medicine Deal
Three years after its first investment, Roche AG (SIX: RO) bought the rest of Foundation Medicine, Inc., a Cambridge, Massachusetts-based molecular information company. In January 2015, Roche plunked down $1.03 billion to acquire approximately 57% of Foundation Medicine from its venture capital backers Google Ventures, Third Rock Ventures and Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers. Roche acquired approximately 15.6 million shares in Foundation at $50 per share. It also invested $250 million by acquiring 5 million newly issued shares at $50 per share. My, how times (and markets) have changed. On June 19, Roche announced it would pay $2.4 billion to buy the shares it didn’t own. The... Read More »
Sperm and Egg Bank Merges with Stem Cell Company
June is thought to be the most popular month for weddings, and new beginnings. That wasn’t what sparked the merger of California Cryobank and Cord Blood Registry (CBR) on June 15, but it certainly put marriage and families front and center. California Cryobank, a portfolio company of Longitude Capital and NovaQuest Capital, is the world’s leading donor sperm and donor egg bank. The private equity firms acquired the company in August 2014 for an undisclosed amount, and less than four years later have sold it to GI Partners in San Francisco. That price was also not disclosed. In a separate transaction, GI Partners acquired CBR, the world’s largest stem cell collection and... Read More »
Health Care M&A Weekly Deals, The Week Ending June 15, 2018
We hope you are enjoying your membership to HealthCareMandA.com. This Health Care M&A Weekly chart below is a selection of transactions announced during the prior week(s). The deals presented here are further elaborated in the monthly newsletter, Health Care M&A News, and in the quarterly report. This information also appears in our online database, Deal Search Online. Visit www.dealsearchonline.com to open a guest account and begin your search. Behavioral Health Care Acquirer Target Price The Riverside Company Certain assets of La Ventana Treatment Programs N/A Biotechnology Acquirer Target Price BridgeBio Pharma ALXN1101 N/A eHealth Acquirer Target Price GPB Capital Holdings, LLC... Read More »
Envision Healthcare Sells to KKR for $9.9 Billion
It’s been a bumpy road for Envision Healthcare (NYSE: EVHC). The company went public in 2013, with revenues of $3.7 million. In 2018, it is going private with KKR & Co. (NYSE: KKR), with revenues of $8.0 billion. In 2014, Envision operated American Medical Response, Inc., an air ambulance company; EmCare Holdings, provider of physician practice management services for emergency departments, inpatient physician services or hospitals; and practice management services company Evolution Health. Since then, it acquired seven physician practices, beginning with Phoenix Physicians, LLC in Fort Lauderdale, Florida ($170 million, June 2014) to Emergency Physicians Medical Group ($12o... Read More »
Cardinal Health Sells Majority Stake in NaviHealth
Cardinal Health (NYSE: CAH) does a lot of business with private equity firms, but usually as an acquirer, not a seller. In August 2015, Cardinal acquired NaviHealth from Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe for $290 million. In June 2018, it sold a 55% stake in NaviHealth to Clayton, Dublier & Rice for an undisclosed amount. Cardinal’s initial stake was just 71% in 2015, but it added another 17% share in 2017 for $103 million. It will retain an approximately 45% interest in the company, and will have a call right to reacquire the business. The company said it would realize proceeds of $650 million after tax. Back in 2015, NaviHealth offered software and analytics products to help... Read More »Schedule a demo
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