Home Health & Hospice Deals Up 50% in Q1:18

Home Health & Hospice Deals Up 50% in Q1:18

After three straight quarters of relatively low home health and hospice merger and acquisition activity, the first quarter of 2018 saw 21 publicly announced transactions. This was a 50% increase from the fourth quarter of 2017 (14 transactions), but just a 5% increase from the year-ago quarter (20 transactions), according to new data from HealthCareMandA.com. Only three of the 21 transactions in this year’s first quarter disclosed a price, and the total was a small $46.1 million. This was similar to last year’s first quarter total of $20.9 million, but not comparable to last year’s fourth quarter when nearly $4.1 billion was announced encompassing just two acquisitions. During the first... Read More »