Contemporary Pediatrics April 29, 2022
Report says hospitals could face insolvency as telehealth attracts new investments.
After a record 2021, health care mergers and acquisitions slowed down in the first quarter of 2022 due to a number of factors.
There were 427 total transactions in the first three months of 2022, down 34% from the fourth quarter of 2021 and a third below the quarterly average of 2021, according to the report “Deal Making Comes Back to Earth,” by consulting firm KPMG.
Private equity deal volume of the first quarter declined by 50%. Funds slowed their pursuit of hospitals and health care systems by 61%. Interest in physicians’ practices dropped 24% from the fourth quarter of 2021, while health care IT and analytics deals rose...