Behavioral Health Business May 14, 2024
Chris Larson

State governments are casting an increasingly critical eye on health care dealmaking, likely making it harder for the behavioral health industry to transact deals.

The impact of these laws will be uneven across the U.S. as some state legislatures take up or resist these laws. Today, about a dozen states have some form of disclosure and review laws. The increased expenses and complexity of dealmaking in these states will disadvantage behavioral health operators.

On the surface, these laws are troublesome because they make the timeline for doing deals much longer, opening up the deal to a greater degree of chaos.

“There are a lot of people involved. No one has a crystal ball [showing] what’s coming in the future. Anything...

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Topics: Govt Agencies, Mental Health, Mergers & Acquisitions / JV, Provider, Regulations, States, Trends
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