Continuing a flurry of big mergers and acquisitions around healthcare as 2017 winds down, health insurer Humana is reportedly in “advanced talks” to buy Kindred Healthcare with help from two private equity firms.
First reported by the Wall Street Journal, the rumored deal would involve the two firms—TPG and Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe—acquiring Kindred’s 77 long-term acute care hospitals and 19 rehabilitation centers. Humana and the firms together would take over Kindred’s home health and hospice care business. The deal would value Kindred’s stock at $9 per share.
Kindred is the largest home health and hospice operator in the U.S., but has struggled with its $3.2 billion debt load, much of it from its 2015 acquisition of Gentiva Health Services. It’s been rumored to be a takeover target this year and has scaled back in some areas, announcing in Nov. 2016 it would be divesting its 91 nursing homes.
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