As we enter week two of the White House’s issuance of guidelines urging all Americans to take steps for “15 days to stop the spread,” many physician practices, particularly specialty practices, are faced with a host of issues...more
By all accounts, 2019 proved to be another year of significant investment by private equity firms in the physician practice space. Below we discuss 10 trends we observed as counsel on a number of these transactions during...more
1/22/2020
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Commercial Insurance Policies ,
Contract Negotiations ,
Contract Terms ,
Due Diligence ,
Health Care Providers ,
Hospitals ,
Indemnity Insurance ,
Mergers ,
Partnerships ,
Physicians ,
Private Equity ,
Private Equity Firms ,
Private Equity Funds ,
Strategic Planning
Discover the factors that drove healthcare M&A activity in 2019.
Innovation, expansion and continued private equity investment in the industry influenced healthcare transactions last year. 2019 saw continued robust...more
1/16/2020
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Ambulatory Surgery Centers ,
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) ,
Divestiture ,
EBITDA ,
Health Care Providers ,
Health Information Technologies ,
Healthcare Facilities ,
Home Health Care ,
Hospice ,
Hospitals ,
Joint Venture ,
Managed Care Contracts ,
Medicare ,
Medicare Advantage ,
Mental Health ,
Mergers ,
Pharmacies ,
Physicians ,
Private Equity ,
Private Equity Firms
Following the launch of several platforms in recent years, it seems that private equity’s interest in the fertility space is trending up again. Investment in this sector brings some unique issues that potential investors...more
11/13/2019
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Clinical Laboratories ,
Consent ,
Discounts ,
Due Diligence ,
Fertility Treatments ,
Health Care Providers ,
Investors ,
Joint Venture ,
Partnerships ,
Patient Referrals ,
Physicians ,
Prescription Drugs ,
Private Equity ,
Private Equity Firms
2018 marked a year of continued robust healthcare merger and acquisition activity, with deal volume surpassing that of 2017. The dollar volume of healthcare deals also exceeded 2017, highlighted by CVS Health Corp. (NYSE:...more
1/9/2019
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Acute Facilities ,
Ambulatory Surgery Centers ,
Health Care Providers ,
Health Information Technologies ,
Healthcare Facilities ,
Home Health Care ,
Hospice ,
Hospitals ,
Investors ,
Managed Care Contracts ,
Mergers ,
Pharmaceutical Industry ,
Pharmacy Benefit Manager (PBM) ,
Physicians ,
Private Equity ,
Private Equity Firms ,
Substance Abuse ,
Urgent Care Facilities
On July 17, 2018, the U.S. House of Representatives' Ways and Means Committee Subcommittee on Health ("Subcommittee") expressed its commitment to modernizing the Stark Law during a hearing in which industry and government...more
7/19/2018
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Affordable Care Act ,
Alternative Payment Models (APM) ,
Anti-Kickback Statute ,
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) ,
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) ,
Health Care Providers ,
Hospitals ,
Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization (MACRA) ,
OIG ,
Request For Information ,
Stark Law ,
Ways and Means Committee
Dermatology, ophthalmology, radiology, urology? The list goes on. Yet, in any physician practice management transaction, the following six key considerations apply and, if not carefully managed, can derail a...more
Spring cleaning season has arrived! This time of year serves as the perfect opportunity to revisit your portfolio company’s healthcare compliance. The complex and ever changing healthcare regulatory and enforcement...more
On December 3, 2017, CVS Health Corp. (NYSE: CVS) announced it would purchase health insurer Aetna Inc. (NYSE: AET) for $67.5 billion, a transaction that would be one of the biggest healthcare mergers in the past decade. The...more
The popularity of radiology practice consolidation is increasing, in part, due to the same catalysts that have driven other outsourced physician groups to consolidate – (a) the need to achieve scale and leverage in order to...more
Healthcare transactional activity continued unabated throughout 2016, continuing a years long trend of sustained growth. This activity is due to a number of factors: innovative technology, pharmaceuticals, and services that...more
1/9/2017
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Health Care Providers ,
Health IT ,
Healthcare Facilities ,
Hospitals ,
Industry Consolidation ,
Innovation ,
Managed Care Contracts ,
Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization (MACRA) ,
Mental Health ,
Pharmaceutical Industry ,
Pharmacies ,
Physicians ,
Provider Payments