Aveanna Healthcare Calls Off Maxim Home Health Merger

Aveanna Healthcare Calls Off Maxim Home Health Merger

The Federal Trade Commission has done it again. The agency closed its investigation into the merger of Aveanna Healthcare with Maxim Healthcare’s home health division, announced in February 2019. We’re accustomed to seeing headlines every few months saying the FTC plans to tighten scrutiny of hospital mergers and acquisitions. The anti-trust division has been active in the hospital sector, the majority of announced hospital mergers more often collapse under their own, unique conditions. Just last year, Care New England ended merger talks with Lifespan and Brown University, after seeing its merger with Boston’s Partners HealthCare shot down by Rhode Island’s... Read More »