Health Care Services Mergers and Acquisitions Hit Seven-Year Low

February 5, 2001 Health Care Services Mergers and Acquisitions Hit Seven-Year Low For the past four years, the volume of health care services mergers and acquisitions has always slowed in the fourth quarter. While the fourth quarter of 2000 was no exception, the size of the decline was larger than usual and the number of transactions in the quarter fell below 100, hitting a seven-year low, according to Irving Levin Associates, Inc., a research and health care publishing firm. In its fourth quarter 2000 Health Care M&A Report (https://www.healthcaremanda.com) the firm reports there . . .