Background: Eating disorder providers are suddenly in high demand in health care M&A. Whether you see yourself as a potential buyer, seller, or long term holder, this development will have ripple effects on valuation, availability of capital, competition, strategic planning, provider networks and more. Find out how it may affect you.
Objectives: 1. Following this presentation, participants will be able to identify, utilize, and explain why health care consolidators are interested in eating disorder providers. 2. Following this presentation, participants will be able to identify, utilize, and explain how consolidation patterns can impact their near to mid-term strategic plans. 3. Following this presentation, participants will be able to identify, utilize, and explain what the outlook is for consolidation in the future.
Outline
1) Context
a) How to square a Clinical Orientation with Financial Opportunity
b) The State of the Current Behavioral Health Mergers & Acquisitions Market
c) The Data: Proprietary M&A transaction trends
d) The Role of Private Equity in Health Care M&A
e) Private Equity Sponsors of Eating Disorder Treatment Providers
2) Eating Disorders M&A Investment Thesis
a) How Addictions M&A is changing
b) Why Eating Disorder Providers converge with these changes
3) Implications
a) Implications for Buyers
b) Implications for Sellers
c) Supply vs. Demand
d) Valuation
4) Outlook
Abstract:
You got into the treatment of eating disorders to help people. It’s never been about the money. Rather it’s a calling. Is this you? If so, even the thought of mergers and acquisitions may make you a bit queasy. But if you think about it, after dedicating your professional life to helping hundreds, perhaps thousands of patients, in lieu of chasing a dollar, is it inappropriate to realize some sort of financial reward for your life’s work, if you are so fortunate?
Well, the need for, and access to, behavioral health services has converged with the world of finance, creating the opportunity for providers who never thought about making a buck, with the opportunity to do so. First, it was high-end drug and alcohol treatment providers. Next it was medication assisted treatment and autism spectrum services providers. And now it’s the eating orders treatment provider community that is garnering attention.
In this session, we will explore the behavioral health M&A market in general, and why the sector has grown into the fastest growing area in health care services M&A. We will discuss how the market is changing, and how eating disorder providers converge with these changes. More importantly, whether you are a potential buyer, seller, or undecided or curious insider, we will detail what this all means for buyers, sellers, supply and demand, valuation, and more. Finally, we will discuss the outlook for the segment, and how this may impact your near to mid-term strategic plans.
Dexter W. Braff, MBA, MS, BA, is President of The Braff Group. With nearly 30 years of experience representing healthcare service companies, Dexter is recognized as the industry expert in healthcare M & A. He has written, and contributed to feature articles that have appeared in numerous health care industry publications. He is frequently interviewed on healthcare mergers and acquisitions by news outlets including Bloomberg News, CNBC, USA Today, The Huffington Post, The Palm Beach Times, and numerous healthcare sector journals. Additionally, the firm is the publisher of marketWATCH, a quarterly review of mergers and acquisitions activity.
