Healthcare Finance News April 18, 2019
It was the fourth straight quarter in which M&A was lower than the annual quarterly average.
Hospital mergers and acquisitions activity in the first quarter of 2019 was sluggish — so sluggish, in fact, that the number of transactions saw its lowest total since the fourth quarter of 2019. It’s also the first since the third quarter of 2016 that had fewer than 20 announced transactions.
All told, there were just 14 deals in the first quarter, according to a report from Ponder & Co. And it was the fourth straight quarter in which M&A was lower than the annual quarterly average.
One of the big reasons for the slowdown was the reduced pace of for-profit divestitures after the frenetic...
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