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HEALTHCARE MERGERS/ACQUISITIONS—TRENDS
WILL THE PACE OF M & A IN HEALTHCARE CONTINUE?
I’m sensing that there is a leveling off. The practical reality is that, whether there are 95 transactions in
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the year or 110, it’s about in that same range, so I think we’ve been in the stable environment for four or
five years. I think it’s going to continue to be at those stabilized levels.
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– Healthcare Informatics interview in 2016 with Kit Kamholz, managing director, Kaufman Hall
Facts impacting mergers and acquisitions in healthcare:
14 % of organizations feel very prepared to manage the financial impact of healthcare
reform with their current financial-planning processes and tools.
19 % of organizations are very confident in their team’s ability to quickly and easily
make adjustments if business circumstances change suddenly.
22 % are modeling alternate scenarios (which could lead to merger/acquisition activity).
Kaufman Hall 2017 CFO outlook: Performance Management Trends and Priorities in Healthcare