Health-Care Deals Keep Hot Pace as Economy Pushes Past Pandemic

Health-care mergers and acquisitions continued at a hot pace in April with 207 deals closed or announced, the third month in 2021 that broke the 200-deal threshold.

Only four months in 2020 had as many as 200 deals as the Covid-19 pandemic persisted, according to Larry Kocot, principal and national leader of KPMG’s Center for Healthcare Regulatory Insight.

Projections of continued strong economic growth suggest that merger and acquisition activity will “remain robust for the coming months,” he said.

But tax and health-care cost offset provisions in legislative packages favored by congressional Democrats and President Joe Biden could create headwinds ...