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The future of behavioral health:
M&A trends and strategies for success in 2022
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The future of behavioral health: M&A trends and strategies for success in 2022
The COVID-19 public health emergency placed a greater emphasis on mental health than ever before. Private equity firms took notice, and 2021 proved to be a record-breaking year for behavioral health deal making. Both the mental health and substance use disorder treatment sectors registered some of the highest numbers of mergers and acquisitions (M&A) ever recorded.
M&A activity is showing no signs of slowing, especially as new legislation at the federal, state, and local levels has provided more funding to support behavioral healthcare treatment. To continue to serve patients in need, consolidation and partnerships must remain top of mind as behavioral health leaders prepare for the future.
During this panel, M&A and behavioral health experts discuss transactional trends in the behavioral health market. You'll learn what providers and aggregators must consider to be successful in 2022 and beyond.
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Recorded Oct 23, 2018
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Bobby Guy believes is a healthcare deal lawyer and he spends his time focused on growing, buying, and selling healthcare companies. In 2016 and 2017, Bobby led the two largest skilled nursing spinoffs in the country each year, involving more than 30 buyers in 25 sates. In the post-acute and behavioral health space, his team has bought and sold more than 500 healthcare companies in the last four years. He represents clients across the healthcare sector. Bobby is the host of The 10 Minute HealthBizCast, and he chairs the national Healthcare Dealmaker’s Conference in Dallas each May. He is a frequent speaker on healthcare investing and healthcare-related topics. Bobby has been published or quoted in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, CNN Money, and other reputable publications.
Mr. Kremeier is a member of Houlihan Lokey’s Healthcare Group. He has advised on a wide range of assignments, including strategic advisory, sellside and buyside M&A transactions. He has been involved in numerous healthcare transactions involving multi-site healthcare providers across the behavioral sector including autism, I/DD, mental health and substance abuse (both the inpatient and outpatient settings) and other behavioral providers as well as post-acute facility-based providers including LTACHs, skilled nursing, assisted living, and CCRCs. Over his career, Mr. Kremeier has advised on over $6 billion of transactions.
For decades, industry veteran Daryl Doise has guided healthcare organizations to achieve their highest growth potential. During his time at Oceans Healthcare, he has helped the organization double in size and expand its footprint to include new hospitals and partnerships with leading acute care health systems. Daryl is Oceans’ primary contact for healthcare systems seeking to serve their communities better, and for behavioral health companies looking to partner.
Joseph has more than 17 years of experience in healthcare M&A and strategic financial planning and analysis. He has executed transactions, both buy-side and sell-side, encompassing 90+ individual healthcare facility-based locations representing more than $650 million in capital investment. Mr. Deans currently serves as Vice President of Corporate Development for Wellpath, the nation’s largest healthcare provider to patients in correctional settings.
Therasa Bell is the co-founder, president, and chief technology officer at Kno2 and is known for three things: her focus on driving interoperability in healthcare, her ability to simplify the complexities of patient document exchange, and clinical workflows, and her commitment to serve that infuses her interactions with everyone around her and powers the company’s purpose to eliminate fax from healthcare by providing a solution for interoperability that can serve everyone throughout the healthcare ecosystem. Ms. Bell was recently recognized in the 2019 class of Most Powerful Women in Health IT by Health Data Management. A true inventor at heart, Ms. Bell has designed and implemented multiple technologies and systems, is the holder of multiple patents for clinical workflows, unstructured clinical documents, sub-networks, and aggregating healthcare networks.
Alan Swenson is the Vice President of Interoperability at Kno2, where his focus is on improving interoperability across the entire continuum of care. He is responsible for overseeing specific projects aimed to extend interoperability into hard to reach markets, and groups not previously part of government incentive programs to drive interoperability like post-acute. He represents Kno2’s partners and customers in industry trade associations and actively participates and leads in other industry interoperability initiatives, such as Carequality, CommonWell Health Alliance, and DirectTrust. In addition, Alan currently serves as a Member Board Director for NASL and is Vice-Chair of their IT Committee, leading NASL interoperability initiatives, including comments to the ONC and CMS interoperability rules and ONC's draft two of the Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement (TEFCA).
Jon Elwell is Chief Executive Officer at Kno2. He leads the company in its mission to solve interoperability for the healthcare industry and truly transform the way patient information is exchanged. While Kno2’s Interoperability as a Service has its place in every care setting, Elwell initially focused on charting a course for the post-acute providers – skilled nursing, assisted living, behavioral health, therapies, and others – where interoperability was lacking. Now that 75% of the technology vendors who support that market are largely integrated to Kno2, Jon is currently driving expansion to the remaining healthcare sectors.
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