McGuireWoods and McGladrey are pleased to host our 11th Annual Healthcare & Life Sciences Private Equity & Finance Conference on February 25th and 26th at The Ritz-Carlton in Chicago. We are honored to have as our primary key note speaker political analyst and
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Healthcare Spending Continues to Rise
By Geoff Cockrell on
Posted in Healthcare Services Investing
The National Health Expenditure Accounts (NHEA), published by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), are the official estimates of total national healthcare spending. The NHEA measures annual U.S. expenditures for healthcare goods and services, public health activities…
Healthcare Investors Turn Increasingly to Information Apps
By Geoff Cockrell on
Posted in Healthcare Services Investing
Investments in healthcare information technology rose 78%, to $766 million in 2011, from 2010 and has doubled since 2006, according to statistics from National Venture Capital Association. Data from Mercom Capital Group, a consultant to health-care companies…
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Medicaid Budget Crunch Part IV: The Impact in Illinois
By Amber Walsh on
Posted in Healthcare Services Investing
In Illinois many doctors are eschewing Medicaid patients due to low reimbursements, a trend that will likely become critical in less than two years, when the numbers of Medicaid patients are expected to increase. In just two years, some…
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DaVita’s Purchase of HealthCare Partners Continues Trend of Dialysis Provider Expansion of Services to Renal Patients
By Amber Walsh on
Posted in Healthcare Services Investing
We’ve discussed in prior posts the multiple waves of heavy dialysis industry consolidation, but another fascinating aspect of the industry’s expansion is through the largest providers’ (LDOs’) expansion into dialysis-related services and even into treatment of patients with no renal…
Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act on Trial
By Amber Walsh on
Posted in Healthcare Services Investing
From March 26 through 28, 2012, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in the multi-state challenge to the 2010 healthcare reform law known as Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA). Our McGuireWoods colleagues published a…
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Dental Investing Filling Need for PE Investing – Part II
By Geoff Cockrell on
Posted in Healthcare Services Investing
During recent months, private equity firms have been actively selling and buying dental practices, which some investors believe is a relatively stable and recession-proof health-care arena. With an aging population requiring more dental work, minimal government intervention and mostly private-pay…
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Dental Investing Filling Need for PE Investing – Part I
By Amber Walsh on
Posted in Healthcare Services Investing
Dental practice management companies have been an increasing focus of private equity firms throughout the United States and Canada. As the cost of healthcare increases, small dental practices, like private medical practices, will soon be an anomaly. Thus, it is…
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Investing in Health Information Technology (IT) – Part III
By Geoff Cockrell on
Posted in Healthcare Services Investing
The importance of healthcare-focused information technology as a way to improve the quality while reducing the soaring cost of healthcare in this country and around the world cannot be overemphasized. The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), enacted in 2009…
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Investing in Health Information Technology (IT) – Part II
By Amber Walsh on
Posted in Healthcare Services Investing
Information and the means of communicating that data in a cost-effective, secure, user-friendly and legally compliant manner is critical in any industry. Targeted healthcare-related IT, information technology specifically designated to improve patient care and advance quality and efficiency throughout the …
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