Merger and acquisition activity within behavioral healthcare slowed to a crawl in the first 3 months of 2023, a development that analysts at M&A advisory firm Mertz Taggart said could be attributed to several factors.
In its latest quarterly behavioral health M&A report, the firm noted that just 27 deals were announced across behavioral healthcare in the first 3 months of 2023. Although that figure is roughly in line with numbers from before the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, it is a steep decline from the 49 transactions reported in the final quarter of 2022 and the fewest in a quarter since the pandemic’s start in 2020, notes Behavioral Healthcare Executive. Read more.
