Healthcare Finance News May 6, 2019
Jeff Lagasse

The nature of acquisitions is changing, with less volume but more high-dollar deals — many of them focused on population health.

The flow of mergers and acquisitions in healthcare continues to see big-dollar transactions, with some estimates placing the worth of last year’s deal volume at about $171 billion. In terms of private equity deal flow, there were 580 deals last year valued at about $88 billion.

TImothy Diggins, a partner at Ropes and Gray, said that anecdotally it’s been a very busy market, and there are a number of market influences that are continuing to drive it.

For one, there’s an expectation in the marketplace that reimbursement structures are changing with respect to value-based care. One way for healthcare...

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