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Bolder Healthcare Solutions Makes Two Bolt-on Acquisitions

by | Jun 29, 2015 10:10 am | eHealth

You probably haven’t heard of Bolder Healthcare Solutions, the Louisville, Kentucky-based partnership formed by The Edgewater Funds, JZ Capital Partners and BHS CEO, Michael Shea. The company offers a suite of healthcare revenue cycle management (RCM) services to hospitals and physician practices. Last week BHS announced two transactions, for two privately held companies, The ROI Companies and Avectus Healthcare Solutions. ROI Companies also provides healthcare RCM services, while Avectus Healthcare specializes in processing third-party liability claims and accounts for hospitals and trauma centers. Not to be boastful, but its press release states that Avectus “utilizes every resource... Read More »

Allergan Adds Kythera to Smooth Its Profile

by | Jun 22, 2015 8:47 pm | Biotechnology, Pharmaceuticals

Allergan plc (NYSE: AGN), formerly known as Actavis plc, wasted no time in acquiring another publicly traded company. Last week, Allergan picked up Kythera Biopharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: KYTH) for $2.1 billion, payable 80% in cash and 20% in new AGN shares issued to KYTH shareholders. Kythera’s only marketed product is Kybella™, an injectable drug that is the first and only approved, non-surgical treatment for double chin. The acquisition is expected to be breakeven in 2016 and accretive thereafter. Actavis, er, Allergan remains committed to de-levering to below 3.5x debt to Adjusted EBITDA by the end of the first quarter of 2016. Read More »

The Giant Health Insurers Are Circling

by | Jun 22, 2015 8:42 pm | Managed Care

It began in May, with Humana Inc. (NYSE: HUM) publicly declaring it was exploring a sale. That announcement ignited the smoldering rumors that have been swirling around the healthcare industry since the beginning of 2015: Expect a lot of consolidation in the Managed Care sector this year. By mid June The Wall Street Journal reported that UnitedHealth Group (NYSE: UNH) approached Aetna Inc. (NYSE: AET) with an offer, and that Anthem (NYSE: ANTM) and Cigna (NYSE: CI) were engaged in merger talks. We checked our DealSearchOnline database to see how each of the top five spent on managed care targets since 1994. Check ’em out.    Read More »

Independent Welch Allyn Sells for $2.05 Billion

by | Jun 22, 2015 8:39 pm | Medical Devices

Welch Allyn, Inc. was a quiet, family-run global medical device company, based in the Finger Lakes region of New York State. We knew the peace couldn’t last. Sure enough, last week Hill-Rom Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: HRC) agreed to pay $2.05 billion for the Skaneateles Falls-based company that makes those physical examination instruments and accessories you so look forward to seeing whenever you visit your doctor. It also makes EMR-connected vital signs and cardiac monitoring devices, with the aid of 2,600 people in 26 countries. Hill-Rom Holdings operates as a medical technology company, and its financial advisors at Goldman, Sachs & Co. expect this transaction to generate $2.6 billion in... Read More »

Joint Venture Buys Regal Lifestyle Communities

by | Jun 22, 2015 8:32 pm | Long-Term Care

Another good REIT story was made in the long-term care sector. Last week Health Care REIT, Inc. (NYSE: HCN) one of the largest diversified healthcare REITS in the country, agreed to pay $623 million for Regal Lifestyle Communities Inc. (TSX: RLC). Regal operates 23 independent living communities with more than 3,600 units—13 in Ontario, seven in Quebec, and one each in British Columbia, Saskatchewan and Newfoundland. Far-flung as that sounds, about 83% of the NOI is derived from four large metro markets.  HCN will be buying this portfolio in an existing RIDEA joint venture with Revera, Inc., with HCN owning 75% and Revera 25%. Read More »

Bayer’s Diabetes Care Business Fetches $1.1 Billion

by | Jun 15, 2015 7:53 pm | Other Services

Last week Bayer AG (XETRA: BAYN) agreed to sell its Diabetes Care business to Panasonic Healthcare Holdings Co., Ltd. for €1,022 million (¥138 billion), or $1.154 billion. The sale includes the leading Contour™ portfolio of blood glucose monitoring meters and strips, as well as other products such as Breeze™2, Elite™ and Microlet™ lancing devices. The portfolio accounted for €909 million (of $1.02 billion) in sales in 2014, according to Bayer. Panasonic Healthcare Holdings was formed in September 2013 when KKR & Co. (NYSE: KKR) invested $1.67 billion in cash to gain 80% control of the healthcare division of Japan’s Panasonic Corporation. Panasonic retained 20% of the division. With... Read More »

The Rehab Sector Shows Some Muscle

by | Jun 15, 2015 7:49 pm | Rehabilitation

HealthSouth Corporation’s (NYSE: HLS) acquisition of Reliant Hospital Partners LLC for $730 million was a tremendous boost for the sector’s year-to-date spending, bringing the total to $85 million through June 12, 2015. But the real action, as always, is in the deal volume. In the same period, 12 acquisitions of rehabilitation facilities and occupational therapy clinics have been announced. Compare that to the same period in 2014, and only seven deals were reported, with just $11 million spent. Here are the three deals in 2015 with reported prices. Read More »

Nautic Partners Exits, HealthSouth Buys In

by | Jun 15, 2015 7:46 pm | Hospitals, Rehabilitation

Nautic Partners made a grand exit last week as it sold Reliant Hospital Partners, LLC to HealthSouth Corporation (NYSE: HLS) for $730 million. Reliant operates a portfolio of 11 inpatient rehabilitation hospitals in Texas, Massachusetts and Ohio, plus three inpatient satellite locations in Massachusetts, for a total of 902 beds. All of the hospitals are leased. Operating entities at seven of the hospitals include minority limited partners whose interest represents less than 10% of the equity of the combined Reliant operating entities. HealthSouth will assume the lease obligations of all the acquired hospitals. Based on the structure of the transaction, it expects to realize a tax benefit... Read More »