The answer to the question posed in the headline would seem obvious to many observers of the physician practice management (PPM) industry, so obvious that it can be summed up in a single word: No. After all, the number of companies has dropped so precipitously that...
Last month’s issue featured Anthem’s (NYSE: ATH) pro- posed $3.8 billion acquisition of Trigon Healthcare (NYSE: TGH), the Blue Cross Blue Shield licensee in Virginia. News of this deal has rattled some cages in other states where Blues plans are contemplating...
The results of the hospital merger and acquisition market for 2001 and prior years, reported in The Health Care Acquisition Report, 8th Edition, are now available from Irving Levin Associates. Although the number of deals announced declined by 3% from 86 transactions...
During the first quarter of 2001, a total of 201 mergers and acquisitions were announced in 13 sectors of the health care industry. As the chart below illustrates, this represents a 4% decline from the 210 deals announced in the prior quarter and a 3% decrease from...
The 2001 numbers for the senior care facilities acquisition market are in. While we will preview some of them here, the majority of data and analysis appear in the seventh edition of Irving Levin’s The Senior Care Acquisition Report. After declining for two years in a...
Our choice for deal of the month involves the acquisition of the country’s largest privately-held, independent pharmacy benefits manager, or PBM. In early February, as a kind of tenth anniversary present to itself, Express Scripts (NASDAQ: ESRX) announced a definitive...