Fierce Healthcare July 1, 2020
Tina Reed

While the COVID-19 pandemic has done a financial number on organizations across the healthcare industry, it did not stymie mergers and acquisition deals as much as anticipated, according to a new report.

Kaufman Hall officials said in their latest National Flash Report that deals in the second quarter declined in comparison to the same quarter a year earlier.

However, they said, two “transformational” deals announced in June pushed the quarter to a far less dramatic decline in deal activity relative to the underlying performance measures in the sector—and could even indicate deals will ramp up in the near future.

“I don’t think there could’ve been any sort of realistic expectations of what might’ve happened as a result of the pandemic,”...

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