FUTURE OF HEALTHCARE
Veritas Capital | August 08, 2022
Veritas Capital a leading technology and government investor with deep healthcare expertise, announced that an affiliate of Veritas completed the combination of two complementary revenue cycle management businesses: Coronis Health and MiraMed Global Services. The combination creates a scaled RCM platform providing end-to-end technology-enabled solutions to a diverse set of healthcare providers across the U.S. The newly combined company benefits from meaningfully increased scale, end-to-end RCM capabilities across multiple specialties, and robust infrastructure with over 8,500 employees globally.
The combined company will be led by Coronis CEO Stephen Grubbs. MiraMed’s founder and CEO Tony Mira will serve as Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors.
Veritas has a proven track record of driving growth for companies within the healthcare technology market. The firm brings a culture of intense customer focus and accelerating growth through investment in R&D and product innovation.
Coronis is a leading provider of end-to-end RCM solutions to U.S. healthcare providers including primary and specialty physician practices, anesthesia groups, laboratories, emergency medical services, behavioral health centers, FQHCs, and hospitals. Since its founding in 2015, Coronis has rapidly become an industry leader with an emphasis on quality, transparency, and customer satisfaction. Coronis’ solutions address the full RCM continuum for a patient’s journey, allowing clients to focus on delivering high quality patient care to communities they serve. Veritas acquired Coronis from 424 Capital and other minority shareholders.
Founded by Tony and Sue Mira in 1979, MiraMed is a leading provider of end-to-end RCM and business process outsourcing services for anesthesia practices and commercial healthcare clients in the U.S. MiraMed delivers medical coding, billing, and receivables management solutions to regional anesthesia-focused physician practices and other commercial healthcare clients, supported by a highly strategic hybrid onshore/offshore delivery model. Veritas acquired MiraMed from the Mira family, who will retain an ownership position in the combined company.
“This combination brings together two highly complementary businesses with a shared mission to improve operations for healthcare providers across the U.S. Coronis’ end-to-end RCM solutions paired with MiraMed’s expertise and global infrastructure creates a robust platform for growth in a highly fragmented market. We look forward to leveraging our expertise in healthcare technology to support the combined company and, in partnership with management, deliver innovative technology-based solutions to ensure the continued success of the company’s healthcare provider clients.”
Ramzi Musallam, CEO and Managing Partner of Veritas Capital
“We are thrilled to partner with Veritas Capital through this combination, which will better position us to help our clients focus on providing what’s most important – the absolute best patient care,” said Mr. Grubbs, CEO of Coronis. “MiraMed has a terrific team and value proposition, and we are confident that, with a larger platform and enhanced resources provided by Veritas, the combined company is poised for continued organic and inorganic growth to benefit our clients, employees, and partners."
“Our family built MiraMed to serve the growing needs of our healthcare clients and their patients. By combining with Coronis, we created a new company with the scale, resources, and global infrastructure to provide an expanded set of solutions to our clients,” said Tony Mira, founder and CEO of MiraMed. “Together, we will expand our operational footprint to serve clients across various specialties and make investments in technology to enhance operations for our clients across the healthcare industry. I look forward to working with the talented team at Coronis, as well as Veritas, as we embark on this next chapter.”
“Our investment in Coronis and partnership with Stephen and the entire management team firmly established how our playbook can create value in the healthcare technology sector,” said 424 Capital Managing Partner Walter Beinecke. “We welcome Veritas as the new stewards of Coronis and wish the team continued success.”
Latham & Watkins LLP served as legal counsel to Veritas. Lincoln International LLC and TripleTree LLC served as financial advisors to Veritas. Guggenheim Securities LLC served as lead financial advisor and Whiteman Osterman & Hanna LLP served as legal counsel to Coronis. Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP served as legal counsel to MiraMed.
About Veritas Capital
Veritas is a longstanding technology investor with a focus on companies operating at the intersection of technology and government. The firm invests in companies that provide critical products, software, and services, primarily technology and technology-enabled solutions, to government and commercial customers worldwide. Veritas seeks to create value by strategically transforming the companies in which it invests through organic and inorganic means.
Leveraging technology to make a positive impact across vitally important areas, such as healthcare, education, and national security, is core to Veritas. We are proud stewards of national assets, improving the quality of healthcare while reducing cost, advancing our educational system, and protecting our nation and allies.
About Coronis Health
Coronis is a leading provider of end-to-end RCM solutions to U.S. healthcare providers including primary and specialty physician practices, laboratories, and hospitals. By using industry-leading technology combined with high-touch relationship building, Coronis Health allows healthcare practitioners to focus on patient care.
About MiraMed Global Services
MiraMed is a leading provider of end-to-end RCM and Business Process Outsourcing services for anesthesia practices and commercial healthcare clients in the U.S. MiraMed partners with physician practices, hospitals, health networks, and related industry service organizations to provide a broad portfolio of solutions to streamline operations, improve productivity and ensure compliance.
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HEALTH TECHNOLOGY
Performant Capital | August 01, 2022
Performant Capital announced that it has formed Provider Technology, LLC through the acquisitions of DavLong Business Solutions LLC and its affiliate Administrative Advantage LLC and On Demand Solutions Inc. Provider Technology is a leading technology provider of outsourced software and IT services, revenue cycle management (“RCM”) and back-office business support primarily to physician practices and health systems. The businesses will continue to operate independently under their respective brands but share best practices across all functional areas.
Performant, investing out of Fund I, closed the DBS and ODS transactions simultaneously in June. The Private Credit business within Goldman Sachs Asset Management provided first lien debt and an equity co-investment to support the acquisitions.
“The team at Goldman Sachs has been invaluable as we executed this platform investment. We look forward to meaningfully accelerating the growth of the business given the scale enabled by Goldman’s partnership.”
Mike Ciaglia, Partner at Performant
Founded in 1983 and headquartered in Savannah, GA, DBS provides turnkey IT solutions for physician practices by fully hosting, maintaining, and supporting all software needs for the medical office, from cloud hosting to cybersecurity. DBS combines its proprietary suite of software offerings with leading third-party solutions to provide medical practices with a fully integrated electronic health record and practice management system from a single vendor. In addition to its best-in-class software offering, DBS also provides complete RCM services designed to manage and optimize the entire collections process for practices. Across both primary functional areas, the company leverages technology, analytics, and the expertise of its skilled teams to improve operational and financial performance for customers.
Founded in 2007 and headquartered in Boise, ID, ODS provides practice management software, RCM, staffing support and business advisory services to healthcare service providers and organizations. Its solutions improve business operational efficiency, reduce administrative costs, and assure managerial control so clients can stay focused on providing quality patient care.
The combination of DBS, AA, and ODS creates a national back-office and healthcare technology platform servicing more than 3,000 medical providers across the U.S and across medical specialties – developing best-in-class offerings and technology for specific specialties, such as Ophthalmology, EMS and Hospitalist providers. “These businesses are highly complementary acquisitions that together provide enhanced technology capabilities and support services with broader geographic presence to better meet the needs of clients and improve their financial outcomes,” said Chris McLaughlin, Partner at Performant Capital. “Both businesses have a reputation of providing superior customer support as value-added partners to physicians and health organizations. Customers value our company as more than just a service provider, but extensions of their core teams. With an expanded presence and enhanced capabilities to drive further value for clients, we’re excited about the future of the combined business under Provider Technology.”
Provider Technology continues to look for best-in-class revenue cycle management and managed service provider software businesses to healthcare customers that would expand its geographic footprint and service capabilities. If you have an opportunity that might be an add-on acquisition candidate for Provider Technology, please contact Mike Ciaglia.
About Performant Capital
Performant Capital is a Chicago-based, lower middle market private equity firm focused on investments in technology-driven companies. Performant acquires businesses across SaaS, technology-enabled services, and data intelligence products and services. With over 50 years of collective investing and operating experience in these sectors, Performant’s principals seek opportunities where its depth of investing, operating expertise, and partner network can materially impact performance. More information on Performant Capital can be found at www.performantcapital.com.
About Goldman Sachs Asset Management Private Credit
Bringing together traditional and alternative investments, Goldman Sachs Asset Management provides clients around the world with a dedicated partnership and focus on long-term performance. As the primary investing area within Goldman Sachs it delivers investment and advisory services for the world’s leading institutions, financial advisors and individuals, drawing from its deeply connected global network and tailored expert insights, across every region and market—overseeing more than $2 trillion in assets under supervision worldwide as of March 31, 2022. Driven by a passion for its clients’ performance, it seeks to build long-term relationships based on conviction, sustainable outcomes, and shared success over time. Goldman Sachs Asset Management invests in the full spectrum of alternatives, including private equity, growth equity, private credit, real estate and infrastructure. Established in 1996, the Private Credit business within Goldman Sachs Asset Management is one of the world’s largest private credit investors with over $90 billion in assets across direct lending, mezzanine debt, hybrid capital and asset-based lending strategies. Its deep industry and product knowledge, extensive relationships and global footprint position it to deliver scaled outcomes with speed and certainty, supporting companies from the lower middle market to large cap in size.
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HEALTH TECHNOLOGY
UPS | August 08, 2022
UPS announced plans to acquire Bomi Group, an industry-leading multinational healthcare logistics provider. The transaction will add temperature-controlled facilities in 14 countries and nearly 3,000 highly-skilled Bomi Group team members to the UPS Healthcare network in Europe and Latin America.
“As a leading global healthcare logistics company, Bomi enhances our portfolio of services and accelerates our journey to become the number one provider of complex healthcare logistics. UPS Healthcare and Bomi Group employees share similar values and our cultures are firmly rooted in a relentless focus on quality. The combination of our two teams will significantly improve our healthcare customers’ ability to continue to develop and deliver life-saving innovations.”
EVP and President of UPS International, Healthcare and Supply Chain Solutions Kate Gutmann
Since 1985, Bomi Group has provided high value-added services for the Medtech and Pharma sectors with a customized and tailored approach. It is a quality-focused company devoted to healthcare that has built solid and long-lasting business relationships with more than 150 multinational customers worldwide.
Key Bomi Group leaders, including CEO Marco Ruini, will continue in their roles to provide seamless service to Bomi Group customers after the transaction closes. Bomi Group’s employees will also continue to play vital roles in the combined organization.
“With over 35 years in the healthcare logistics industry, our team has developed best-in-class services designed to meet and exceed the needs of our medical technology and pharmaceutical customers,” said Ruini. “Joining the UPS team will expand those capabilities and create an even more integrated and powerful global network for our customers.”
The acquisition will add more than 350 temperature-controlled vehicles and four million square feet to the UPS Healthcare global footprint, offering customers access to faster shipping times, greater production flexibility, and offerings to help them attract new business. The acquisition will play a key role in the delivery of next-generation pharmaceutical and biologic treatments that increasingly require time-critical and temperature-sensitive logistics.
“We are focused on building healthcare logistics capabilities and services that allow our customers to deliver the newest healthcare innovations,” said UPS Healthcare President Wes Wheeler. “We are excited to combine Bomi’s talent, expertise and capabilities with UPS Healthcare – together, we will provide unmatched solutions to our customers, powered by UPS’s integrated, global smart logistics network.”
The acquisition of Bomi is part of UPS Healthcare’s continued expansion of its network and services to meet growing demand – including Bomi, UPS Healthcare has doubled its global footprint since 2020. Recent expansions include newly constructed and soon-to-be-opened dedicated state-of-the-art healthcare logistics facilities in Germany and Australia, and expanded campuses in Hungary and the Netherlands.
UPS Healthcare also recently enhanced UPS Premier, a technology-led service that can prioritize and track critical shipments within 10 feet of their location anywhere in UPS’s global network. UPS Premier brings worldwide visibility, control, reliability and product recovery capabilities to UPS Healthcare customers.
These expansions and new services meet the complex and varied needs of UPS Healthcare’s customers, helping them turn logistics into a competitive advantage.
The transaction is expected to close by the end of the year, subject to customary regulatory review and approval. The value and terms of the transaction are not being disclosed at this time. J.P. Morgan Securities LLC served as the financial advisor to UPS.
About UPS
UPS is one of the world’s largest companies, with 2021 revenue of $97.3 billion, and provides a broad range of integrated logistics solutions for customers in more than 220 countries and territories. Focused on its purpose statement, “Moving our world forward by delivering what matters,” the company’s more than 500,000 employees embrace a strategy that is simply stated and powerfully executed: Customer First. People Led. Innovation Driven. UPS is committed to reducing its impact on the environment and supporting the communities we serve around the world. UPS also takes an unwavering stance in support of diversity, equity and inclusion.
About UPS Healthcare
UPS Healthcare delivers unparalleled healthcare logistics expertise to its customers around the world. UPS Healthcare has 11+ million square feet of cGMP and GDP-compliant healthcare distribution space globally. Services include inventory management, cold chain packaging and shipping, storage and fulfillment of medical devices, and lab and clinical trial logistics. UPS Healthcare's global infrastructure, its UPS® Premier visibility service, its track and trace technology, and its global quality system are well-suited to meet today's complex logistics demands for the pharmaceutical, medical device, and laboratory diagnostic industries.
About Bomi Group
BOMI GROUP is a leading Italian multinational company in the field of integrated logistics serving the Healthcare sector. Bomi is the logistics partner of more than 150 customers worldwide, including major players in the medical device, in vitro diagnostics, biomedical and pharmaceutical sectors. The Group is present through its subsidiaries and affiliates in 14 countries worldwide, with a particular focus on Europe and South America, employs over 3,000 people and has its own fleet of vehicles for daily deliveries to hospitals, clinics, laboratories, pharmacies and home patients.
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