HealthSpan Companions ups Surgical procedure Companions provide to $6B after rival bid

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Bon Secours Mercy Health’s affiliate HealthSpan Companions has sweetened its deal to purchase Surgical procedure Companions after the outpatient facility chain obtained a competing provide.

Underneath the new terms introduced Monday, Surgical procedure Companions’ shareholders would obtain $25.00 per share in money – up from $23.50 within the authentic settlement final month – in a deal price $6 billion.

Though the deal is predicted to shut within the first quarter of subsequent yr, shareholders – excluding these linked to Surgical procedure Companions’ largest stakeholder Bain Capital Non-public Fairness – would obtain additional month-to-month funds if the shut date is delayed after March 1, and will stand up to $26.61 per share if the deal isn’t full by Oct. 23.

Surgical procedure Companions, which operates over 200 short-stay surgical amenities in 30 states, stated the provide from an undisclosed bidder would have acquired the corporate for $28.00 per share, however that the deal would have taken “materially longer to shut” in comparison with an acquisition by HealthSpan. IT additionally risked being held up by regulators, the corporate stated. 

Bloomberg reported that UnitedHealth was the unidentified bidder. Surgical procedure Companions didn’t reply to a request for touch upon the bidder’s id.

UnitedHealth has closely invested in ASCs and different outpatient places by its Optum subsidiary, which is among the largest outpatient surgical procedure operators within the nation following its 2017 acquisition of SCA Health.

Health programs and different healthcare corporations have elevated their investments in outpatient surgical places to be able to capitalize on burgeoning affected person demand for surgical procedures in lower-cost settings.

This summer season, Ascension accomplished its $3.9 billion acquisition of AmSurg, one other main participant within the ASC area with greater than 250 places. The Health system’s ambulatory footprint now trails Tenet Healthcare’s United Surgical Companions, a community of over 535 surgical care amenities acquired by the for-profit system in 2015.