Humana, Private-Equity Firms Agree to Buy Kindred Healthcare
December 19 2017 - 8:56AM
Dow Jones News
By Imani Moise
Kindred Healthcare Inc. said Tuesday that it will be acquired by
insurance giant Humana Inc. and two private-equity firms in a deal
valuing the firm at $783.2 million.
Humana, together with TPG Capital and Welsh, Carson, Anderson
& Stowe, will pay $9 a share for the home-health and hospice
operator, representing a 4.7% premium from the last trading day
before The Wall Street Journal reported the companies were in
advanced talks. Including debt, Kindred said the deal is worth $4.1
billion.
Shares in Kindred fell 5.3% to $9 in premarket trading. The
stock has climbed 21% so far this year.
Upon closing of the deal, Kindred's home-health, hospice and
community-care businesses will be separated and operated as a
stand-alone company. The private-equity firms will own 60% of the
company, and Humana will own 40%.
The Kindred deal comes on the heels of CVS Health Corp. reaching
an agreement earlier this month to buy Aetna Inc. for $69 billion
in cash and stock. Humana rival UnitedHealth Group has also been
looking to purchase doctor groups, urgent-care clinics and surgery
centers in a bid to combine insurance operations with other
health-care businesses.
Kindred is the biggest home-health and hospice operator in the
U.S. Its facilities business, meanwhile, includes around 77
long-term care hospitals and 19 rehabilitation hospitals.
Kindred's 2015 acquisition of Gentiva Health Services Inc. left
the company with a heavy debt load, leading it to shed its nursing
homes to improve its finances.
Humana, like Kindred based in Louisville, Ky., already has some
home-health operations, and has said it wants to get deeper into
that business as a way to better manage the health of its Medicare
enrollees. The insurer has said it believes closer ties to
home-health services and physicians will help it improve care and
hold down costs.
Write to Imani Moise at imani.moise@wsj.com
(END) Dow Jones Newswires
December 19, 2017 09:41 ET (14:41 GMT)
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