Becker's Healthcare October 3, 2022
Physician groups are increasingly consolidating – acquisitions jumped 145 percent in 2021, according to a report from VMG Health.
Here are four big deals since the beginning of 2021 that point to a consolidating industry.
1. UnitedHealth Group subsidiary Optum, which owns and operates ASC management company Surgical Care Affiliates, acquired Houston-based Kelsey-Seybold for around $2 billion. Optum has yet to confirm the terms of the deal, which closed earlier this year.
Kelsey-Seybold is a multispecialty physician group with cancer and women’s health centers, two ASCs and a sleep center. The group is building another ASC on a campus that will eventually have space for 82 providers.
2. Optum also agreed to acquire Atrius Health, which...
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