Despite the drastic drop in overall mergers and acquisitions amid COVID-19, deal activity in the behavioral health space remained robust in 2020. Last year, the industry saw 163 deals overall, according to proprietary data collected and analyzed by the M&A advisory firm The Braff Group. That represents a year-over-year drop of just under 6%, with […]
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Behavioral health dealmakers have predicted that M&A could reach a new peak in 2021, but some subsectors will see more love than others. Specifically, experts predict that demand for outpatient models and autism services providers will be especially high in the year ahead, with private equity (PE) investors fueling the fire. “I think 2021 is […]
After months of coronavirus-related deal delays, mergers and acquisitions have finally started to pick back up in the behavioral health industry. In fact, Q3 was marked by 26 deals, two more than the industry saw a year earlier in Q3 2019, according to the M&A firm Mertz Taggart. And things will only continue to go […]