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 »