Behavioral Health Business June 24, 2021
Health care dealmaking is off to an unprecedented start for 2021, with behavioral health proving to be one of the hottest sectors of them all, according to a new mid-year dealmaking report from PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC).
Heightened demand is driving more behavioral transactions, while regulatory changes and private equity are also propelling dealmaking.
In the first quarter of 2021, the health care industry saw its highest quarterly deal volume ever, with at least 426 transactions — beating out the previous record of 352 deals, set just a quarter earlier in Q4 2020.
Meanwhile, for the 12 months ending May 15, 2021, PwC reported a total of at least 1,304 health care deals. Of those, at least 93 were in the behavioral...