Hospice News January 24, 2025
Hospices that have palliative care service lines may be better poised for growth in the merger and acquisition landscape compared to others. But the ability to demonstrate sustainability and scalability of these services will be crucial to manifesting a return on investment.
Investors’ interest in palliative care has slowly mounted in recent years, with these services increasingly a topic in hospice M&A transactions, according to Mark Kulik, senior managing director at the M&A firm The Braff Group.
An important trend to note is that buyers have considered the finite details of hospices’ palliative care services such as patient census, care delivery models and overall infrastructures of these programs, Kulik said.
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