Acquisitions, de novos, integration, EBITDA, and enterprise value creation.
Multi-specialty platforms — organizations consolidating multiple clinical disciplines under one management structure and financial model — are attracting serious private equity capital alongside single-specialty supergroups. The Bloom Organization…
April 2026 brought another active month of dental group M&A, with several DSOs expanding their practice networks through acquisitions and new partnerships. TUSK Practice Sales advised transactions including…
In Episode 7 of the Healthcare100 series, AmeriVet Veterinary Partners CEO Jason Heffelfinger offers a direct answer to 2026’s central growth question: when markets get choppy, stop adding…
Becker’s Dental Review identifies three primary drivers shaping DSO expansion in 2026. De novo development is gaining traction as an alternative to acquisitions — Smile Partners launched its…
Hospital and health system deal-making surged in Q1 2026, with 22 announced mergers and acquisitions — the highest first-quarter total in six years, according to Kaufman Hall. Fifteen…
Dental M&A is entering a more disciplined phase in 2026. Sixty-nine percent of DSOs expect to increase acquisitions this year, but a high-demand, low-supply environment is limiting available…
Becker’s Dental Review provides a current-state snapshot of six specialty-focused dental DSOs and MSOs as of early 2026. Allied OMS operates more than 30 offices across 12 states;…
The dental M&A market is reorganizing around operational fundamentals rather than network scale. Dental Care Alliance and Affordable Care have both entered lender control, signaling the end of…
Power Digital Marketing’s Jeff Mason explains the strategic rationale behind the agency’s acquisition of Cardinal Digital Marketing. He describes healthcare as approaching a ‘retail inflection point’ in marketing…
PDS Health — the first DSO to integrate dental and medical records using Epic — is expanding its model through a partnership with the University of the Pacific,…
