Until the final home health payment rule comes down from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, M&A is expected to stay relatively quiet.
However, some experts believe that if cuts are avoided through legislation or other means, M&A should see a massive boon, Home Health Care News reports.
“If we’re successful as an industry and it’s pushed off to 2026, that gives a level of consistency and predictability in the industry,” said Mark Kulik, senior managing director of The Braff Group. “For M&A, the most important thing is predictability, reliability or the absence of risk. So if it does get pushed to 2026, we have a fertile environment for the next several years from an M&A perspective.” Read more.
