Billion-Dollar Deals Lead First-Quarter Healthcare M&A

Mergers and acquisitions by hospitals and health systems are up from the same time in 2017.

Mergers and acquisitions are up in 2018 over the same period in 2017, with three deals involving systems that have more than $1 billion in revenue, according to an analysis by Kaufman Hall, a healthcare consulting and software provider.

There were 30 partnership transactions in the first quarter of 2018, which is an 11% increase over 2017’s first quarter.

In addition to the three $1 billion-plus deals, there were four that included systems with revenue bases of $500 million to $1 billion partnering with even bigger organizations.

These are other key findings from the report:

• The trend for mega-deals continue. In...