Business Valuation

 Leading Business Valuation Services for Healthcare Organizations

HealthCare Appraisers provides business valuation services in connection with a wide variety of healthcare transactions. We value hundreds of businesses each year for purposes of assisting with minority interest acquisitions, joint ventures, and control acquisitions, among others. We also conduct and publish an annual survey of ambulatory management companies and publicly traded and private health systems to remain abreast of key valuation issues within the industry. Some examples of our business valuation capabilities include:

Business Valuation Services

Whether related to asset purchase agreements, joint venture arrangements, or taxable business transactions, Healthcare Appraisers has the expertise to determine the fair market value or fair value of all healthcare-related intangible assets. Some examples of the most common intangible assets we are asked to value include:

  • Certificates of Need and Other Licenses to Operate
  • Non-Compete Agreements
  • Trademarks and Tradenames
  • Electronic Medical Records
  • Healthcare Data
  • Software/Program Valuation
  • Processes and Procedures

Our expertise in healthcare valuation enables us to navigate the complexities of the healthcare regulatory landscape as it may pertain to tax issues. Our reliable tax valuation opinions incorporate all appropriate valuation methodologies, and are utilized by clients in connection with many types of taxable events, and include valuations related to the following:

  • Personal Goodwill
  • Gift and Estate
  • Tax Form 8283 – Noncash Charitable Contribution

Given the hundreds of healthcare business and asset valuations performed each year, HealthCare Appraisers is uniquely positioned to poised to perform fair value financial reporting valuation services in relation to FASB ASC 805 and 820. Our extensive team of business valuation, capital equipment, and real estate appraisers work seamlessly to complete all aspects of the financial reporting process, including intangible asset valuation, roll-over equity and other forms of seller financing, and goodwill impairment testing. For-profit and non-profit hospitals and health systems, as well as private equity platform organizations are counted among our recurring financial reporting clients.

Our vast healthcare experience uniquely positions us to be a trusted advisor to attorneys, accountants, lenders, and other stakeholders in determining the value of business assets in connection with a company facing financial distress or bankruptcy. Our team includes business, equipment, and real estate appraisers, which allows us to provide valuation opinions on all healthcare business assets.

 Ambulatory Surgery Center Valuation

While valuation principles remain constant, the underlying factors to be taken into consideration should differ based on the type of healthcare entity to be valued. With a team of highly-credentialed and experienced healthcare valuation experts, HealthCare Appraisers understands the intricacies that can drive value and are yet permissible considerations under current, applicable healthcare laws and regulations. For example, when valuing an ambulatory surgery center (“ASC”), we may consider payer mix, specialty and case mix, and local competition and barriers to entry, including any Certificate of Need requirements.

Recognizing that many of our clients continually employ an aggressive growth strategy founded upon ASC investment, HealthCare Appraisers provides an invaluable resource of information related to ASC activity, by way of our annual ASC Valuation Survey. In publication since 2003, HealthCare Appraisers’ annual ASC Valuation Survey provides timely insights into the trends and forces shaping the ASC industry. Click below to download a copy of the latest ASC Valuation Survey or ASC Benchmarking Survey.

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2021 ASC Valuation and Benchmarking Surveys

These surveys have become widely-utilized and valuable industry resources over the years, and we hope you enjoy the publication. Respondents collectively own or manage more than 1,200 ASCs across the United States, representing approximately 20 percent of the ASC market.

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Our business valuation experts are available to speak with you at your convenience. With an exclusive focus on healthcare valuation and transactions, we offer highly specialized and targeted insight into each engagement, and we utilize the latest valuation guidance and industry trends in performing our work.

Recent Insights

Key Components of a Successful ASC Transaction

Authors: Robert Kurtz Download the PDF Includes interview with Nicholas J. Janiga, ASA. Originally published by the Ambulatory Surgery Center Association. ASC Focus, The ASCA Journal, March 2023. Build a strong team, do your due diligence and have patience....

Quarterly Insight: Q4 2022

Monitoring Industry Activity from Quarter 4 of 2022 Fourth quarter earnings calls continued on many of the themes from 2022 including inflation and staffing difficulties across sectors. Although Q4 seemed to show some improvement relative to earlier in the year from a...

2023 Outlook: Healthcare M&A

Authors: Daniel I. Levin, CFA, ASA and Nicholas J. Janiga, ASA Download the PDFRising interest rates, elevated inflation, and economic uncertainty led to volatility in 2022, and many of these factors remain in place heading into 2023. While inflation appears to have...

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