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Recent Health Care Deals, week ending 03.04.2016
AcquirerTargetPrice ProStrakan Group plcRights to Moventig$70 million IpsenExclusive license to cabozantinib$200 million UPMC EnterprisesN/A Ascension WisconsinWheaton Franciscan HealthcareMerger Civitas Solutions, Inc. Tender Loving Care of Duluth, Inc.... Read More »Leap Day Boosts February Deal Volume
It’s Leap Year, which means February was a day longer in 2016. This year, that extra day marked the announcement of seven healthcare transactions, which raised the month’s total to a healthy 113 deals. The services sectors were more active than usual, and accounted for 65% of the total. Usually, the services side makes up about 55% to 60%. Dollar volume was healthy, too, at $27.7 billion. But given the records set in 2015, February’s dollar total ended up 35% below the same month a year ago. The deals may be getting smaller, but they’re still being made. Read More »
Rehab Companies Still on the Prowl
M&A in the rehabilitation sector has been pretty slow this year. So slow, in fact, no deals were recorded in February. The first week in March, however, things picked up. U.S. Physical Therapy, Inc. (NYSE: USPH) announced it acquired a 55% stake in an unidentified physical therapy practice that operates through eight clinics. The stake cost $13.7 million, and the business generates approximately $9.0 million a year on roughly 65,000 patient visits. The second deal came from MOTION PT Group, Inc., a portfolio company of Pharos Capital Group, which is getting into physical and occupational therapy in a big way. MOTION PT was launched in 2015, and began buying up PT companies in the New... Read More »
LifeCare Hospitals Moves Into Home Health
LifeCare Hospitals, part of LifeCare Holdings LLC, specializes in treating chronically ill and medically complex patients in post-acute settings. This week, it announced the acquisition of Haven Home Health, LLC, a multi-location home healthcare provider in the greater Dallas-Fort Worth metro area. The acquisition is part of LifeCare’s strategic expansion in the post acute market. In May 2011, the company paid $117.5 million for five long-term acute care hospitals owned by HealthSouth Corporation (NYSE: HLS). LifeCare Holdings itself was acquired by The Carlyle Group in July 2005 for $555 million, from GTCR Golder Rauner. In December 2012, the private equity firm sold LifeCare to... Read More »
Wheaton Franciscan Joins Ascension Wisconsin
It’s final. On March 1, 2016, Wheaton Franciscan Healthcare joined the local network of St. Louis, Missouri-based Ascension. Wheaton Fransican, sponsored by the Wheaton Franciscan Sisters and Felician Sisters, has eight hospital campuses, 330 physician medical groups, outpatient centers, transitional and long-term care facilities, home health and hospice services. It became the fourth regional system that is part of Ascension Wisconsin, joining Columbia St. Mary’s, Ministry Health Care and Affinity Health System. With this transaction, Ascension Wisconsin has 27 hospitals, 114 primary care clinics, more than 24,000 associates, including more than 1,000 physicians. This... Read More »Recent Health Care Deals, week ending 02.26.2016
AcquirerTargetPrice Baxalta Inc. Collaboration on CAR T cell therapies$105 million ResMed Inc. Brightree$800 million AmgenRights to wearable drug injectors$55 million Recipharm ABMitim Srl$74.7 million McKesson Corporation2 oncology companies$1.2... Read More »
Surgical Care Sews Up Two Partnerships
Surgical Care Affiliates, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCAI) announced two transactions in the month of February that expanded its Chicago-area footprint to six locations. First was the Center for Minimally Invasive Surgery in Mokena, Illinois. The center’s 17 phsyicians provide a full suite of outpatient surgical services, including general surgery, gynecology, ophthamology, orthopedics, pain management and podiatry. Although the deal was announced on February 2, it was effective on January 1, 2016. Next, on President Lincoln’s birthday (that’s February 12, to the uninformed), SCA partnered with Winchester Endoscopy Center in Libertyville, Illinois. The center’s six physicians... Read More »WellCare Begins Its Planned Buying Spree
WellCare Health Plans CEO Ken Burdick plans to double the company’s revenue between 2017 and 2021, beginning with mergers and acquisitions. On February 22, WellCare (NYSE: WCG) made a start on those plans, announcing its acquisition of certain assets of Advicare Corporation, a managed care organization that provides Medicaid benefits in South Carolina. As of February 1, 2016, it served approximately 32,500 Medicaid members in the state. Financial terms were not disclosed. WellCare Health Plans provides managed care services for Medicare and Medicaid. As of December 31, 2015, it serves approximately 3.8 million members nationwide. The February 19 announcement by the Centers for... Read More »Software for Sleep Disorders Attracts $800 Million
Sleep-disordered breathing is big money. Anyone who has laid awake night after night beside a chronic snorer would pay just about anything for a bit of quiet, most likely. Enter ResMed Inc. (NYSE: RMD), which has built its business on medical devices to treat sleep-disordered breathing and respiratory care. The company has made several acquisitions over the years, predominently in the medical device sector (see chart below). Targets have ranged from the German firm MAP Medezin-Technologie, acquired in 2001, to the Chinese sleep-device maker Curative Medical, a more recent acquisition in 2015. Two recent transactions have focused on the digital side of healthcare delivery. ResMed paid an... Read More »Schedule a demo
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