Healthcare Valuation Blog

Healthcare services organizations rely on a variety of intangible assets to create business value, including patient and customer relationships, medical records, trade names, assembled workforce, licenses and certifications, non-compete clauses, proprietary technology, software, and others. Market data related to the value of these types of assets are scarce since they’re rarely sold separately, and when they are, the financial terms are seldom disclosed publicly. One importa

The most important component of a valuation of an accountable care organization (or other multi-provider network that relies on risk-based shared savings models) is the revenue forecast, which involves “probability-adjusting” future shared savings payments in some manner. Under the Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP), an ACO that meets its minimum savings rate (MSR) is entitled to a percentage of the total savings below its financial benchmark, which typically amounts to