What You Should Know:
– CVS Health announced it will acquire Signify Health for $30.50 per share in cash, representing a total transaction value of approximately $8B.
– Signify Health’s clinicians and providers can have an even greater impact by engaging with CVS Health’s unique collection of assets and connecting patients to care how and when they need it.
Advancing CVS Health’s Value-Based Care Long-Term Strategy
Signify Health is a provider of Health Risk Assessments, value-based care and provider enablement with a network of more than 10,000 clinicians across all 50 states and a nationwide value-based provider network. Combined with its proprietary analytics and technology platforms, Signify Health is improving patient engagement, patient outcomes and care coordination for stakeholders across the health care system. Signify Health’s clinicians and providers can have an even greater impact by engaging with CVS Health’s unique collection of assets and connecting patients to care how and when they need it.
Signify Health’s network of clinicians physicians, nurse practitioners and physician assistants utilize home-based visits to identify a patient’s clinical and social needs, and then connect them to appropriate follow-up care and community-based resources in order for the patient to have a more connected, effective care experience. As part of CVS Health, Signify Health will continue to advance its extensive primary care enablement capabilities, including turnkey analytics, network, and practice improvement solutions, to help providers transition to value-based reimbursement and improve quality of care.
“Signify Health will play a critical role in advancing our health care services strategy and gives us a platform to accelerate our growth in value-based care,” said CVS Health President and CEO, Karen S. Lynch. “This acquisition will enhance our connection to consumers in the home and enables providers to better address patient needs as we execute our vision to redefine the health care experience. In addition, this combination will strengthen our ability to expand and develop new product offerings in a multi-payor approach.”
Post-Acquisition Plans
As part of the acquisition, Kyle Armbrester will continue to lead Signify Health as part of CVS Health. Signify Health’s extensive network of over 50 health plan clients and their members will further augment CVS Health’s longstanding and leading offering of payor-agnostic solutions for a diverse set of health plan and employer clients.
“We formed Signify Health and recruited Kyle and the team to build a strategic innovation platform focused on leveraging technology as a catalyst for connecting key health care stakeholders to drive better patient outcomes,” said Matt Holt, Chairman of the Board, Signify Health and President of Private Equity and Managing Director at New Mountain Capital, which owns a majority stake in Signify Health. “Together with CVS Health, Signify is uniquely positioned to continue to lead the transformation to value-based care. We look forward to the significant impact this transaction will make on health care for years to come.”
CVS Health and Signify Health anticipate that the transaction will close in the first half of 2023.
