Home Health Industry Likely Headed for M&A Rollercoaster

Despite attempting to predict expected reimbursement changes and adapting operations accordingly, agencies won’t know exactly how PDGM will affect them until well after its Jan. 1 implementation.

As a result, PDGM will likely lead to a drop in merger and acquisition (M&A) activity in the home health space over the next year, followed by a spike soon thereafter, experts predict. In other words: It’ll look a little bit like an M&A rollercoaster.