Industry Bulletins | July 18, 2017
UnitedHealth Nears Deal To Purchase Advisory Board’s Healthcare Division
UnitedHealth nears a deal to purchase the Advisory Board in partnership with Vista Equity Partners. Under the deal UnitedHealth would acquire the Advisory Board's health care division and Vista Equity Partners would acquire the firm's education division.
Optum, UnitedHealth's health services and innovation company, has already seen accelerated expansion and revenue growth thus far in 2017, and could see even more with this acquisition. Earlier this year, UnitedHealth's $2.3 billion purchase of Surgical Care Affiliates added a powerful surgery center and surgical hospital provider organization to its arsenal.
UnitedHealth Group, Inc. is an American managed . . .