Health Care Deal Volume Steadies in Q4:17, According to HealthCareMandA.com
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Healthcare merger and acquisition activity held steady in the fourth quarter of 2017. Compared with the third quarter, deal volume increased 1%, to 377 transactions. Deal volume was lower than the same quarter in 2016, down 3%. Combined spending reached
Deal volume for the full year 2017 reached 1,566 transactions, down 2% compared with 1,593 transactions in 2016. Dollar volume was more robust, up 23% compared with 2016, to
Healthcare services transactions made up 63% of the quarter's deal volume, and an unusually strong 87% of the quarter's dollar volume (
Long-Term Care remained the most active of all the sectors, although quarterly deal volume continued to slip. The 70 deals announced in the recent fourth quarter are 5% lower than the previous quarter (74 transactions). Among the services sectors, Hospitals, Laboratories/MRI/Dialysis, Rehabilitation, Labs and Other Services were the only sectors to equal or increase deal volume levels above the previous quarter.
The technology sectors showed some improvement versus the year-ago quarter, except for Biotechnology, which dipped 13%. Compared with the previous quarter, all showed higher deal volume, with the exception of eHealth (-29%).
"M&A in the fourth quarter of 2017 saw a new focus on consumerism in healthcare," said
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