

Healthcare M&A Outlook: What’s Driving Deals in 2025?
In this episode of the Healthcare M&A Podcast, HORNE Capital Markets Senior Manager Jared Barraza is joined by Phil Kim, Partner at Shepherd Mullin, to examine the evolving dynamics of healthcare transactions. Their conversation covers platform longevity, market headwinds, and how AI is reshaping subverticals across the industry.

Medicare and Medicaid Uncertainty: Beyond the Headlines
In a rapidly evolving healthcare landscape, financial shifts in Medicaid policy are casting long shadows across the M&A environment. This episode of the Healthcare M&A Podcast features a timely and insightful conversation between HORNE Capital Markets team...
Healthcare M&A in 2025: Trends, Challenges, and Strategic Opportunities
Discover key healthcare M&A trends shaping 2025, including financial priorities, regulatory challenges, and investment strategies.

How Non-compete Bans and Legal Challenges Affect Business Value
The recent FTC ban on non-compete clauses is expected to impact business transactions differently depending on whether they involve smaller businesses with owner-operators or larger ones with key non-owner employees, potentially favoring tuck-in acquisitions over platform transactions.

Navigating the Healthcare Investment Market
With the first quarter behind us, we want to share some insights after talking with several healthcare investors since the beginning of the year.

Alana Bartleson
Alana Bartleson serves as a valuation manager in HORNE’s valuation and transaction advisory group, where she specializes in business valuation and consulting services. She assists business owners, primarily of operating companies, with valuations for transactions and strategic planning, as well as tax and estate planning and financial reporting purposes.

Alfredo Pascual
Alfredo Pascual serves as a senior associate within HORNE Capital, focusing on business valuation and transaction advisory services.

Jarrod Barraza
Jarrod Barraza serves as a senior manager in HORNE’s valuation and transaction advisory group, focusing on the healthcare industry. He is skilled in complex transactions and delivering tailored solutions to meet the needs of his clients such as hospitals, dentists, physician practices, pharmacies and investor groups.