Hospice and home health care: A compelling growth story
The hospice and home health care industry is expected to grow strongly over the foreseeable future, driven by powerful demographic trends, including a rising elderly... Read more.
Practices with Surgery Centers: A Gem to Private Equity
Acquisitions of physician practices by Private Equity has exploded over the last six years.... Read more.
Private Equity Investment is Driving Behavioral Health to New Levels
2021 projects that private equity investment in behavioral health will reach an all-time high as investors seek to cash in on the growing demand for therapeutic... Read more.
White Paper: Behavioral Health has Captured the Interest of Private Equity
The first quarter of 2021 delivered 38 reported behavioral health transactions, an increase over any quarter in 2020. We expect some of this activity reflects deals... Read more.
The M&A Opportunity in Behavioral Health
The behavioral health market is highly fragmented which is always a catalyst for consolidation. COVID-19 added to that and created an increased opportunity in M&A... Read more.
The Perfect Storm Roiling the Behavioral Health Industry
COVID-19 affected behavioral health in a substantial way which is creating a path for M&A opportunities.... Read more.
White Paper: The Physician’s Guide to Private Equity Transactions – June 2021
Designed to help physician owners considering a sale to private equity, this paper examines the key questions common to our initial client conversations. The learnings... Read more.
Private Equity’s Medical Practice Consolidation Curve. Where Different Specialties Lie.
We think about private equity-backed consolidations as part of a lifecycle. Like most business cycles, it starts out with pioneering that accelerates through further... Read more.
History of Private Equity Investors in Dermatology
There are now thirty private equity firms with investments in dermatology practices and surgery centers.... Read more.
FOCUS Healthcare Team was one of the Most Active Investment Banking Groups – 2020 Ophthalmology Deals
Our research on ophthalmology transactions in 2020 showed that roughly half of seller groups were represented by an investment banker or M&A advisor.... Read more.
Women’s Health Deals Are Heating Up
Even with the chilling effects of COVID-19, 2020 was the biggest deal year yet for private equity's investment in women's health practices (in terms of transaction... Read more.
2020 Marked by Mostly Small Deals in Dermatology
Members of the FOCUS Healthcare team counted approximately 25 closed dermatology transactions in 2020. Of those, fifteen were for small single-dermatologist practices.... Read more.
How a Capital Gains Tax Change Could Affect Medical Practice Sales
With President Biden's inauguration today, many are wondering about potential tax changes that could take place in the near future.... Read more.
2020 Ophthalmology Deals, By Number of Selling Doctors
We looked at completed ophthalmology deals in 2020 to understand different practice sizes that transacted. A couple of items are of note ...... Read more.
2021 is off to a Fast Start for Gastroenterology
Gastroenterology deals have been accelerating, with eight closed transactions in Q4 2020 and another eight already closed (as of Jan 19) in 2021. We believe this... Read more.