Health-Care Deals on Record Pace to Hit 3,000 by Year’s End

Health-care deal volume continued at a robust pace in October, with transactions expected to reach 3,000 before the end of the year, analysts say.

October saw a total of 223 announced or closed mergers and acquisitions, up from 213 the month before. As many as 400 deals could close in December, based on the number of transactions now in the works, according to Gary Herschman of Epstein Becker & Green PC in Newark, N.J. Total deal volume year to date is at 2,379, which already exceeds the volume for all of 2020 (1,936).

The predictions come as President Joe Biden’s ...