Healthcare Services | Fourth Quarter 2018

January 2019 – With more than 1,850 healthcare transactions announced in 2018, M&A transaction volume in 2018 was up 14% as compared to 2017, according to preliminary figures from Irving Levin Associates Inc. Transaction value in 2018 was $330.3 billion, up 21% from 2017. While demand for facility-based services declined in 2018 with hospital mergers falling 22% as compared to the same period a year prior, there was a jump in transactions in the home healthcare and physician medical group markets as the trend from inpatient to outpatient activity proliferates.

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