HFMA August 6, 2018
HOSPITAL DEALS ARE POISED TO INCREASE IN UPCOMING QUARTERS, BASED ON EARLY INDICATIONS OF COMING TRANSACTIONS, ACCORDING TO PONDER.
The merger-and-acquisition (M&A) momentum in health care during the second quarter of the year switched from hospitals to physician practices, according to tracking companies.
Indicating a hospital deal slowdown, a Kaufman Hall analysis found only 20 hospitals deals in the period—down from 30 in the first quarter. Similarly, tracking by Ponder found hospital deals in the second quarter decreased by nearly 50 percent from the first quarter, to 21 transactions. That was the smallest number of hospital deals identified by Ponder since the fourth quarter of 2016.
A Ponder analysis noted that M&A activity typically decreases following a stronger-than-average period like...
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