3 Trends Driving Healthcare Mergers & Acquisitions activity in 2020

The New Year often brings with it an essence of transformation. This year, U.S. healthcare’s metamorphosis is now more than a decade old, as it continues to shed its antiquated legacy systems and siloes to embrace a different kind of entity-one that hopes to establish weight in value-based care at a scale robust enough to substantiate it. Healthcare providers are aiming to achieve that life cycle through a series of partnerships as well as mergers and acquisitions, which have become increasingly popular over the last several years. According to Fortune, healthcare, technology, and energy were the most active sectors for mergers and acquisitions in 2019. Deal-making in the healthcare sector hit $533 billion in 2019, up 26 percent from 2018.