PE-Backed Acacium Group Acquires SUMO Medical Staffing

PE-Backed Acacium Group Acquires SUMO Medical Staffing

Acacium Group, backed by private equity firm Onex Corp., announced on September 8 that it acquired Sumo Medical Staffing for an undisclosed price.  Headquartered in Draper, Utah, SUMO Medical Staffing is a locum tenens agency dedicated to placing qualified physicians and advanced practice providers in temporary and permanent positions across the United States. The company places medical professionals in specialties including psychiatry, internal medicine, hospitalist, family medicine, ER/urgent care and pediatrics.  Acacium Group is one of the United Kingdom’s largest healthcare workforce solutions and services partner dedicated to offering staffing, managed services and... Read More »
BrightSpring Merges with KKR’s PharMerica

BrightSpring Merges with KKR’s PharMerica

BrightSpring Health Services and PharMerica are merging to create a national home care business with its own pharmacy services provider under KKR & Co. (NYSE: KKR). Both companies are based in Louisville, Kentucky and will continue to operate from there. Financial terms were not disclosed. BrightSpring, formerly known as ResCare, was a portfolio company of Onex Corporation (TOR: ONEX). It provides comprehensive home and community-based health services in behavioral health, digital health, hospice and homecare to complex populations in need of specialized care. Onex acquired ResCare way back in March 2004 for $83.4 million. PharMerica is a specialty pharmacy service provider for the... Read More »
PE-Backed Acacium Group Acquires SUMO Medical Staffing

DaVita Dumps Its Doc Group for $4.9 Billion

Kidney care specialist DaVita (NYSE: DVA) made good on its statement that it was exploring strategic alternatives for its DaVita Medical Group (DMG). It found a buyer in UnitedHealth Group’s (NYSE: UNH) Optum, which agreed to pay $4.9 billion for DMG, the highest publicly announced price it has paid for a physician group. In January, Optum announced its take-out of Surgical Care Affiliates, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCAI) for $3.2 billion. The company partners with health plans, medical groups and health systems to develop and optimize surgical centers. At the time of the announcement, it operated 205 surgical facilities, including ambulatory surgery centers and surgical hospitals, in partnership with... Read More »
Home Health and Hospice Sector Hit by Headwinds

Home Health and Hospice Sector Hit by Headwinds

The Home Health & Hospice sector has experienced a few headwinds in 2017. Besides the ongoing labor shortage, reimbursement levels would be severely impacted by the passage of the Senate Republicans’ Better Care Reconciliation Act, which curtails federal spending on Medicaid beginning in 2020. Little surprise, then, that deal volume faded in the second quarter, to nine transactions. Deal volume in Q2:17 fell to 10 transactions, which represent 18% of the 55 deals announced in the past 12 months. Compared with the same period a year earlier, deal volume was down 31%. Source: HealthCareMandA.com, July 2017 None of the deals announced disclosed financial terms. Dollars Spent on Home... Read More »

ResCare Switches to ‘Home Health Lite’

ResCare Inc., a portfolio company of Onex Corp. (TSE: ONEX), is changing the direction of its home health segment. ResCare, the nation’s largest private provider of services to people with disabilities, has been divesting its home health assets since 2014. A recent 10-K filing by Onex Corp. stated that ResCare was exiting the skilled line of business in the home care segment and transitioning to home health services without the skilled nursing. The exit resulted in a 2% decrease in revenue between 2015 and 2016, which was substantially offset by acquisitions within the home care and residential services segments, according to the filing. On April 10, 2017, Active Day/Senior Care... Read More »