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Canon Buys Toshiba Medical Systems

Two companies, two strategic plans. That’s what brought Canon Inc. (NYSE: CAJ) together with Toshiba Corp. (OTCQB: TOSYY) in a deal to acquire Toshiba’s medical device business. Toshiba, which makes laptops, home appliances, nuclear power equipment and more, somehow deemed Toshiba Medical Systems as a non-core asset and decided to sell. For its part, Canon decided earlier this year to diversify beyond cameras and copiers. Canon will pay approximately $5.9 billion for Toshiba Medical Systems, which includes diagnostic imaging systems such as MRI, X-ray and ultrasound equipment. Read More »

Recent Health Care Deals, week ending 3.18.16

AcquirerTargetPrice Canon Inc.Toshiba Medical Systems $5.9 billion Nautic PartnersExactCare® Pharmacy$150 million Envision Healthcare Holdings, Inc.Emergency Physicians Medical Group $120 million RocheCollaboration on cancer immunotherapy drugs$45 million Microlin Bio, Inc.Nucleic acid therapeutic assets$7.7... Read More »

Envision Healthcare Pays Big for Large Doc Group

Five hundred clinical providers constitutes a big physician practice, and Envision Healthcare Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: EVHC) just paid approximately $120 million for one. The target is Emergency Physicians Medical Group of Ann Arbor, Michigan, whose providers staff 37 facilities in Michigan, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Iowa and Delaware. The group is expected to bring in approximately $140 million in annual revenue, which works out to a modest 0.9x revenue and a moderately pricey $240,000 per provider. EPMG clinicians manage nearly 1 million patient encounters annually in emergency and hospital medicine departments as well as urgent care centers across the Midwest. It also operates community... Read More »

Sleep Services Goes to MedBridge Healthcare

Sleep disorders continue to spawn acquisitions. In February, ResMed Inc. (NYSE: RMD) paid $800 million for Brightree, a digital health company focused on post-acute segments that have a high prevalence of sleep-disordered breathing problems. This month, MedBridge Healthcare, a portfolio company of Vicente Capital Partners, paid an undisclosed price for Sleep Services of America, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the John Hopkins Health System. The Glen Burnie, Maryland-based company operates locations in Georgia, Maryland, New York, North Carolina and the District of Columbia, providing diagnosis, treatment and diagnostic studies for sleep disorders. The deal is a good fit for MedBridge,... Read More »

Allegiance Health Joins Henry Ford Health System

Even large hospitals are looking to scale up these days. That’s what drove Allegiance Health, a 480-bed community hospital in Jackson, Michigan, to sign on with Detroit-based Henry Ford Health System. Henry Ford is a five-hospital system that provides both health insurance and health care delivery, including acute, specialty, primary and preventive care services. Allegiance Health wasn’t financially troubled, having reported nearly $480 million in operating income through June 30, 2015, and about $32 million in EBITDA. This deal between the two not-for-profit systems will enable Allegiance to expand its services and build clinical capacity. The process isn’t expected to... Read More »

Complementary Specialty Pharmacies Merge

Apothecary by Design, a specialty pharmacy based in Portland, Maine, has acquired privately held Healy Pharmacy for an undisclosed price. The Warrenville, Illinois-based target focuses on infertility, gastroenterology, hepatitis, oncology, HIV, dermatology and rheumatoid arthritis. Both target and acquirer specialize in infertility treatment, serving complementary geographic markets with little overlap. This acquisition will blend each pharmacy’s unique areas of expertise, such as Healy’s strength in oncology and ABD’s experience in infectious and inflammatory diseases. Apothecary by Design was acquired in August 2015 by BelHealth Investment Partners for an undisclosed... Read More »

Recent Health Care Deals, week ending 03.11.2016

AcquirerTargetPrice Spark TherapeuticsGenable Technologies Ltd. $15,151,000 Compassus Genesis' home health & hospice business$84,000,000 AbbVie Inc. Global collaboration on immunology compounds$595 million EyeGate PharmaceuticalsJade Therapeutics$3,355,000 MEDNAX, Inc.Pediatric ENT Institute of South Texas,... Read More »

Recovery Centers of America Makes Its First Acquisition

The behavioral health care sector has a new acquirer in its midst. Recovery Centers of America, a portfolio company of Deerfield Management, announced its first deal on March 9. Recovery Centers of America, based in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania, was launched in September 2015 by real estate developer J. Brian O’Neil and received $231.5 million from Deerfield soon thereafter. The target was Lighthouse Recovery Center, a 53-bed drug and alcohol abuse treatment facility in Mays Landing, New Jersey. The acquisition includes the residential treatment center and three satellite outpatient sites in south Jersery. Read More »

AbbVie Gets Ahead of the Bad News Curve

On March 11, Sanofi (NYSE: SNY)  and Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc. (NASDAQ: REGN) announced that an experimental rheumatoid arthritis therapy (salrilumab) helped patients more than AbbVie Inc.’s (NYSE: ABBV) Humira in a late-stage trial. But AbbVie already had a new deal in place, a collaboration with Boehringer Ingelheim, that was announced on March 7. Under terms of the agreement, AbbVie will make an initial upfront payment of $595 million to BI, which will be eligible to receive additional development and regulatory milestone payments and royalties on net sales of any drugs developed from this collaboration. At the center of the deal is BI 655066, an anti-IL-23 antibody now in Phase 3... Read More »

Home Health & Hospice Deals Keep Coming

The home health & hospice sector is still buzzing with mergers and acquisitions. Just two weeks into the month of March, six transactions have been announced.  The largest target by price (and the only one disclosed to date) is Comapssus’ $84 million purchase of the home health and hospice operations of Genesis Healthcare (NYSE: GEN), which are located in California, Idaho, Montana and New Mexico. Compassus already operates more than 150 community-based hospice and palliative care programs in 28 states. After the close, it will operate more than 165 programs in 30 states. Genesis announced the sale after concluding the home health and hospice businesses were non-strategic assets.... Read More »