Industry Trends

Compressed valuations, heightened boardroom CEO confidence across various sub-sectors, and the need to accelerate top-line growth and scale are all indicative of a wave of deal activity.

“While an inordinate amount of attention has been placed on hospitals’ acquisition of physician practices, little scrutiny has been given to commercial insurers, which have collectively invested billions in physician practice acquisitions,” the AHA wrote in the report.

Rather than competing against each other, health systems and PE firms are forming partnerships. Many experts in the healthcare industry anticipate this trend is here to stay.

Health systems are ramping up investments in ambulatory surgery centers and forming joint ventures with outpatient partners to accelerate the development of new centers.

Health/disease management and prediction ranks #1.

More than 400 hospitals and hospital systems have hospital-at-home programs, despite uncertainty over what future reimbursements might look like under Medicare.

The administrative and regulatory burden associated with public and private insurer policies and practices, coupled with inadequate reimbursement rates, are important barriers to operating an independent physician practice.

With the new fund, Martis Capital has raised more than $2.1 billion in capital to date.

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.