Hospice Saw Largest 2019 M&A Deals in Care-at-Home Sector

Hospice led the charge on mergers and acquisitions during 2019. Dollar amounts for hospice transactions surpassed those in similar markets such as home health care, even though fewer deals occurred last year in the hospice, home health care and home care spaces than in 2018, according to a new quarterly M&A report from advisory firm […]

Hospice Mergers and Acquisitions Outlook for 2020

Demographic growth and the availability of capital are among a handful of forces driving a robust mergers and acquisitions market in the hospice space, motivating companies to make acquisitions at a relatively brisk pace. From 2016 to 2018, the hospice M&A space saw more than 10 transactions of $250 million or more in total enterprise […]

Traditions Health Acquires Pathways Hospice

Hospice and home health provider Traditions Health, LLC, has acquired Tucson, Ariz.-based Pathways Hospice for an undisclosed amount.  Traditions, based in College Station, Texas, provides hospice, home health care and consulting services to more than 1,800 patients in Texas, California and Arizona. Traditions is a portfolio company of family-owned investment firm Dorilton Capital Advisors.   Traditions […]

Acquisitions Spur Amedisys’ Hospice Growth

Amedisys Inc. (NASDAQ: AMED) is continuing to use acquisitions to build up its hospice footprint as the company braces for disruption to its home health care business stemming from the forthcoming transition to the patient driven groupings model (PDGM).  In the third quarter of 2019 Amedisys hospice segment revenue rose to $162 million, a 57% […]

Hospice M&A Market Goes Strong in Third Quarter

The hospice space saw at least 10 hospice merger & acquisition transactions during the third quarter, a slight dip from the second quarter in which 14 transactions took place. Despite this decline, the hospice M&A market continues to go strong. The hospice merger and acquisitions market has been thriving in recent years, with several top […]

Missouri Home Hospice, Private Equity Firm Acquire Transitions Hospice

Missouri Home Hospice, LLC, a firm with portfolio companies throughout the post-acute care space, and MHS Equities, LLC have acquired Missouri-based Transitions Hospice, marking the third 2019 acquisition for Missouri Home Hospice. In June, the company in a single transaction purchased three Nurses and Company assets, providing private services, home health care and hospice in […]

AngMar Medical Holdings Enters Hospice Market Via Acquisition

Mansfield, Texas-based home health provider AngMar Medical Holdings Inc., has entered the hospice space with the acquisition of its first agency, located in Wichita, Kan. The location will operate under AngMar’s new brand, Angels Care Hospice. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.  The name of the acquired hospice in Wichita is confidential per […]

Towerbrook, Ascension Health to Acquire Compassus for $1 Billion

Private equity firm Towerbrook Capital Partners and health system Ascension Health have agreed to purchase the Nashville-based hospice provider Compassus at a valuation of $1 billion, with multiples of EBITDA in the low teens, PEHub.com reported.  The two companies will split ownership of Compassus down the middle, each holding an equal stake, according to PEHub.com. […]

Hospice Multiples Likely to Fall Under Medicare Advantage

Emerging payment models such as the forthcoming Medicare Advantage carve-in demonstration may start to bring down record-high hospice multiples in what continues to be a burgeoning mergers and acquisitions market, but falling multiples are unlikely to curtail widespread industry consolidation in the long term, hospice CEOs said at the Home Health Care News Summit conference […]

Hospice Sees Uptick in M&A Activity During Q2 2019

The hospice mergers & acquisitions market continues to be robust. Fourteen hospice transactions took place during the second quarter of 2019, up from eight hospice-related acquisitions during the first quarter, according to a report from M&A advisory firm Mertz-Taggart.  The hospice merger and acquisitions market has been thriving in recent years, with several top providers […]