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Four Deals for Physician Medical Groups

by | May 11, 2015 5:32 pm | Other Services

The first full week of May saw a lot of activity, relatively speaking, in the Physician Medical Group sector. Four deals were announced, and not all by the usual acquirers. TeamHealth Holdings (NYSE: TMH), which took on Princeton Emergency Physicians in New Jersey for an undisclosed price, and IPC Healthcare (NASDAQ: IPCM) acquired Atlantic Hospitalist Group in Macon, Georgia. Eisner Pediatric & Family Center, a 95-year-old integrated community clinic in downtown Los Angeles, announced its acquisition of five physician practices in the surrounding area, three pediatric and two OB/GYN. Late in the week came word that South Shore Hospital in South Weymouth, Massachusetts would acquire... Read More »

Smith & Nephew Gets Some Help in the OR

by | May 11, 2015 5:29 pm | Hospitals

Medical device maker Smith & Nephew plc (NYSE: SNN) acquired two surgical software applications, Virtual BackTable® and TrayTouch®, from privately held S2 Interactive. Both of the applications are used by Syncera, Smith & Nephew’s new orthopedic supply chain model for hospitals and ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs). They allow hospital and ASC administrators to access, analyze and manage real-time data related to instrument use during surgery. Arthroplasty surgery can involve as many as 20 trays holding a total of 200 or more instruments, all of which need to be counted, cleaned, inspected, assembled and sterilized before every surgery. Read More »

Health Care M&A Hits a Wall in April 2015

by | May 4, 2015 4:34 pm | Healthcare Market Updates

It’s still a bit early to call the party over, but health care M&A spending in April had a hangover. Our preliminary data show 94 transactions announced, which is 29% lower than March’s deal volume, but about even with April 2014’s total. The dollars, however, stopped flowing abruptly. We’ve recorded only $3.8 billion in spending last month, a drop of 93% compared with the previous month, and -92% compared with the same month the year before. Check the May issue of Health Care M&A News for the sector-by-sector breakouts. Read More »

St. Joseph’s Finally Says Yes to Trinity Health

by | May 4, 2015 4:29 pm | Hospitals

What began as a strategic affiliation agreement in early 2014 finally blossomed into full commitment. St. Joseph’s Hospital Health Center, a 431-bed acute care hospital in Syracuse, New York, agreed to become part of Trinity Health’s national organization. Trinity already operates in other areas of the state, through Catholic Health in Buffalo and St. Peter’s Health Partners in Albany. Next steps for its latest addition include a transition team. Read More »

Nueterra Buys into Benefit Management

by | May 4, 2015 4:24 pm | Other Services

Privately held Nueterra is the largest U.S. private-sector organization specializing in the development of joint equity partnerships with health systems, governments, hospitals and physicians’ groups. Recently, however, it has shifted its focus to the consumer population, and last week acquired Benefit Management, Inc., which provides customized health benefits administration programs to partially self-insured companies. The goal is to develop pay-for-value models for the new bundled payment system. Tally-ho. Read More »

MedImmune Parcels Out an Investgational Blood Cancer Candidate

by | Apr 20, 2015 4:13 pm | Biotechnology

Last week MedImmune Ltd., the biotech arm of AstraZeneca plc (NYSE: AZN), announced two placements for its investigational compound, MEDI4736. The first announcement was with Juno Therapeutics Inc. (NASDAQ: JUNO), which signed an non-exclusive agreement to test its own investigational CD19-directed chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cell candidates with MedImmune’s programmed cell death ligand 1 (PD-L1) immune check point inhibitor, MEDI4736, aiming for a combination therapy. No financial details were disclosed on that, but the next day, MedImmune announced a deal with a Swiss subsidiary of Celgene Corp. (NASDAQ: CELG), worth an upfront payment of $450 million from Celgene, to investigate... Read More »

Nonprofit vs.For-profit Hospital M&A Trends, 2005 to 2014

by | Apr 20, 2015 4:09 pm | Hospitals

We get a lot of requests for updates to a chart of our data that appeared in the New York Times in August 2013. The accompanying story was about the growing consolidation of for-profit and not-for-profit systems. This week, we oblige our readers with an update to that data. And while for-profit consolidation was all the rage in the summer of 2013, it’s the fall-out from that wave of consolidation that is driving the smaller deals in 2014 and into 2015.  Read More »

NorthStar Retires $640 Million to 15 CCRCs

by | Apr 20, 2015 4:03 pm | Long-Term Care

Fountains Senior Living Holdings LLC is selling 15 continuing care retirement communities (CCRCs) in 11 states. NorthStar Healthcare Income, Inc., a public, non-traded REIT, has plunked down $640 million for the portfolio, which consists of six entrance-fee and nine rental CCRCs, total 3,637 units. Watermark Retirement Communities will continue as the day-to-day operator of the CCRCs. The deal is expected to close around June 1, at which time NorthStar will lease the entrance fee properties to affiliates of The Freshwater Group Inc., pursuant to a master net lease. The rental properties will be held under a RIDEA structure, with NorthStar owning 97% and Freshwater owning 3%. Read More »