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...
Is the skilled nursing industry really at the edge of a cliff, waiting to see what happens to Medicare rates in October? Is that really what drove Mike Walker, the CEO of Genesis Health Ventures (NASDAQ: GHVI), to resign from his position at the company he founded,...
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...
With a burst of merger and acquisition activity not seen in a few years, nearly $400 million of assets changed hands in the past few weeks, with most of the volume occurring in the assisted living and retirement housing sector. Some of these transactions had been...
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...
Over the past two years, the amount of negative news in the senior care industry has overwhelmed what little positive news has slipped out. Bankruptcies, failed deals, lenders leaving the market, foreclosures and collapsing stock values have all made the headlines....