Fierce Health Payers July 6, 2021
Miami-based Cano Health announced today the acquisition of fellow primary care provider Doctor’s Medical Center in a bid to grow its Medicare, Medicaid and Affordable Care Act (ACA) exchange memberships in South Florida.
The deal closed July 2 and ran Cano Health $300 million, $250 million of which the company said was financed by new debt.
Cano Health now controls DMC’s 18 medical centers located in Miami-Dade and Broward counties, the companies said, with 15 of these serving memberships dominated by adult and pediatric Medicaid members.
By combining with DMC, Cano Health said it will become “the largest independent value-based primary care provider to both Medicare and Medicaid patients” in the state of Florida.
“The DMC team has served the...