For the home-based care industry, the UnitedHealth Group and Amedisys merger would create an additional level of competition while verifying the value of its services, according to experts. “For smaller providers, this raises the stakes,” Benjamin Bogan, partner and managing director at health care M&A advisory firm Stoneridge Partners, told Home Health Care News in an email. “Competing with an integrated payer-provider network like Optum can be increasingly difficult, especially in overlapping markets. On the flip side, it opens up strategic opportunities for nimble, high-quality operators to position themselves as local high-quality options or potential acquisition targets for other consolidators who want to remain competitive.”
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