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How Home Health, Personal Care Reimbursement Guiding Addus’ M&A Strategy

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As Addus HomeCare Corporation (NASDAQ: ADUS) sinks teeth into acquisitions, the company will be taking smaller bites when it comes to hospice deals. Addus has indicated for roughly the last year that it will orient its M&A strategy towards its home health and personal care services, with hospice becoming less of a priority.

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Addus Orients M&A Strategy Away From Hospice, Towards Home Health, Personal Care

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Addus HomeCare Corporation’s (NASDAQ: ADUS) is shifting its M&A strategy away from hospice deals to focus on its home health and personal care businesses. Texas-based Addus provides personal, home health and hospice care across 207 locations in 22 states, reaching roughly 46,500 patients annually.

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Queen City Hospice Expands in Rural Ohio with New Office

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Ohio-based Queen City Hospice, an Addus Homecare (NASDAQ: ADUS) company, recently opened a new location in its home state. Queen City Hospice provides end-of-life care in six counties across the Cincinnati area in the southwest part of the state. Demographics are driving up a need for serious illness and end-of-life care in Ohio.

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Hospice Investors to Watch in 2024

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Transaction volume declined in the hospice and home-based care space in 2023, following the two record-breaking prior years. Only three hospice deals took place in the third quarter of this year compared to 11 in Q3 2022 and 18 in the same period in 2021, according to data from the M&A advisory firm The Braff Group.

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High Price Tags Pushing Addus Away from Hospice Acquisitions

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High valuations have led Addus HomeCare (NASDAQ: ADUS) to pivot towards personal care and home health deals rather than hospice acquisitions. Hospice multiples broke records in 2020, 2021 and 2022, reaching as high as 29x. Addus began as a personal care provider in 1979.

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Addus Acquires Apple Home Healthcare

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Addus HomeCare Corporation (NASDAQ: ADUS) has acquired Chicago-based Apple Home Healthcare, Ltd., The state is one of three in which Addus offers its trifecta of business lines — personal care, home health and hospice. Since 2019, Addus has purchased seven personal care companies and four home health and hospice agencies.

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The Most Significant Hospice Deals So Far in 2023

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A pattern of “megadeals” occurring in 2021 and 2022 set a high bar for transaction valuations and volumes, which contributed to this year’s slump compared to previous record-breaking levels. Among this year’s biggest deals in terms of valuation and size was Gentiva’s $710 million acquisition of ProMedica’s hospice and home-based care assets.

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