Cambia Health Combines (Not Merges) with BCBS of North Carolina
Managed care deals have fallen off the radar recently. In all of 2018, we saw just 25 announcements, down 51% from the year before. The marketplace is certainly undergoing significant changes, as CVS Health (NYSE: CVS) moves ahead with its new subsidiary, Aetna, to create Health Hubs within its retail stores. That combination took Aetna off the acquisition trail. Likewise, Cigna’s (NYSE: CI) acquisition of pharmacy benefits manager Express Scripts in 2017 took that managed care company out of the market for the moment. Now comes the unusual combination of Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina (BCBCNC), based in Durham, and Cambia Health Solutions out in Portland, Oregon. Blue... Read More »
Q1:18 Health Care M&A Stays Strong
Health care merger and acquisition activity in the first quarter of 2018 kept pace with the previous quarter in 2017. Compared with the fourth quarter of 2017, deal volume increased 1%, to 386 transactions. However, deal volume was down 12% compared with the same quarter the year before. Combined spending in the first quarter reached $112.9 billion, a decrease of 2% compared with the nearly $115.0 billion spent in the previous quarter, according to HealthCareMandA.com. Thanks to the announcement of a multi-billion-dollar deal in Q1:18, deal value rose 90% compared with $59.6 billion spent in Q1:17. Health Care M&A Market – Deal Volume by Sector Source: HealthCareMandA,com, April 2018... Read More »March Added One Mega-Deal, and Saw Another One Halted
After a busy M&A month in February, with 125 deals reported, March didn’t disappoint. Preliminary results show deal volume equaled the previous month’s total. The figures look good, in the face of the recent stock market swings, the Trump administration’s talk of trade wars and cancelling trade deals. But a look back to March 2017 shows this month’s deal volume is down 19% compared with the 155 deals logged then. And that wase in the face of the Trump administration’s efforts to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act. Check out the April issue of Health Care M&A News for the deal volume and value charts, by sector. We’re not saying this year’s healthcare market is lacking in... Read More »
Q1:18 Results: Healthcare Goes Retail
First, the easy news. Deal volume in the first quarter of 2018 was on par with the previous quarter’s total of 380 deals. Preliminary data show 378 transactions were announced in the first quarter, making for a decline of 1% that will likely be erased as more deal activity is uncovered. Compared with the first quarter in 2017, however, deal volume was down 14%, versus the 439 deals reported then. Deal value for the quarter is where the data deviates from previous norms. The first quarter in 2017 posted a very robust $59.6 billion in disclosed deal value. In the fourth quarter of the year, deal value leapt to nearly $115.0 billion, thanks largely to the $77 billion proposed acquisition of... Read More »Schedule a demo
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