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Healthcare Pumps $20B into AI Initiatives
Substantial investments —$6 billion — have been made in generative AI that aids clinicians. That’s driving improvements to surgery, note taking, workflow automation and clinical decision support.
One Health System’s Story of Success in Value-Based Care
It provides a case study for healthcare IT and services investors, for whom health systems are crucial customers and partners.
Buyer Interest Is Strong, But Home-Based Care M&A Environment Remains ‘Complicated’
Transaction volume saw a significant drop from 2021 to 2022, down 50% to 60%, according to Cory Mertz, managing partner at M&A advisory firm Mertz Taggart.
CMS Proposes 2.2% Decrease to Home Health Provider Medicare Payments in 2024
The recommended cuts amount to an estimated $375 million less compared to 2023 levels.
Sen. Bernie Sanders calls for $170B Investment to Boost Primary Care, Combat Staffing Shortages
The U.S. spends less than 7% of its healthcare budget on primary care. Most developed countries spend between 10% and 15%.
How to Prepare a Practice for a Merger or Acquisition
The current uptick in health care M&A activity offers physicians on the brink of retirement a strategic — and lucrative — option as they transition to their next phase of life.
Nonprofit Healthcare out of Intensive Care but Long Road to Recovery, S&P Says
The continuing challenging environment will also likely lead to sustained merger and acquisition activity in the sector though the longer-term effects of such a dynamic will not be known for a while.
FTC Likely to Scrutinize Optum-Amedisys Deal: Analysts
Optum’s offer outbid rival Optioncare Health, which had offerd $97.38 a share. Option Care said it was “disappointed” with the cancellation of the deal and is due to receive $106 million from Amedisys as per its May agreement.
Value-Based Care Collides with Competition: Deal Impacts for MSOs/DSOs
On the Value-based Care Collides with Competition series, Ropes & Gray attorneys explore how aggressive federal and state enforcement of antitrust and other competition laws appears to be in tension with the nationwide shift to value-based care models.
Why Skilled Nursing Deal Volume Could Be ‘Exorbitant, Voluminous’ in Back Half of 2023
While the appetite exists and there remains considerable equity available, debt markets remain highly volatile.