Deacon Associates has agreed to acquire 31 home health and hospice agencies from HCA Healthcare, with hospice representing 23% of the divested assets across eight states. The deal,…
Becker’s Dental Review’s May 2026 roundup identifies several states with notable DSO activity, led by Arizona, Colorado, New York, and Texas. In Arizona, PDS Health opened a new…
Behavioral health M&A recorded 42 closed transactions in Q1 2026 — 34 traditional M&A deals and 8 growth financings totaling $535.7 million. Mental health led with 19 deals,…
Local Services Ads now appear on nearly 31% of tracked queries — up from 11% at the start of 2025 — while Google Business Profile organic clicks are…
Atlantic Health, a six-hospital system with more than 500 New Jersey care locations, is rebuilding its marketing function around real-time capacity data instead of broad-based ad spend. CMO…
Healthcare marketing is at a genuine inflection point in 2026, with 68% of CMOs managing budget cuts while still accountable for growth, engagement, and patient loyalty. The 31st…
Healthcare patient acquisition cost (PAC) ranges from $155 for pediatrics to $610 for cosmetic surgery in 2026, with most of that variance driven by conversion rate, not ad…
Dental M&A has rebounded strongly in 2026 after a slowdown driven by elevated capital costs, enhanced due diligence, and unrealistic seller valuations. DSOs are aggressively expanding across specialties…
Physician group private equity deal volume fell from 28% of global provider transactions in 2021 to 23% in 2025, per Bain & Company’s 2026 Global Healthcare Private Equity…
Sixty-nine percent of DSOs expect their private equity sponsors to push for moderate-to-high increases in acquisition activity in 2026, according to TUSK Practice Sales’ Q2 2026 Dental Market…
