Healthcare Finance & Corporate Development

The financial seat, and the deal seat.
Both run by a practitioner.

Two lanes of work. A fractional CFO seat for physician owners who need someone watching the number, the margin, and what the practice is worth. And outsourced corporate development for the platforms, funds, and banks buying practices like theirs. One operator, most of a career spent on the buy side of healthcare M&A.

Monthly financial leadership Indicative valuation Pricing and cost structure ASC conversion economics Target sourcing and screening Pipeline through transaction readiness
8+ Years in Corporate Development,
M&A & Strategic Finance
$1B+ Cumulative
Transaction Value
130+ Healthcare Centers
Acquired & Integrated
150+ Healthcare Services
Businesses Valued
Prior Deal Seats
NASDAQ-Listed Oncology Platform PE-Backed Urgent Care Platform National Healthcare Valuation Firm
01 / What We Deliver

Two lanes of work, scoped the same way.

A standing finance seat for physician owners, and corporate development for the teams buying practices. Every engagement is scoped and priced in writing before it starts, and delivered by a practitioner rather than handed to an analyst.

Financial & Business Advisory

For physician owners. The fractional CFO seat: monthly and quarterly performance, cash planning, profitability by location, payer, and service line, and the modeling behind the decisions that actually move the practice. Alongside it, an indicative practice valuation refreshed each year, ASC conversion economics when a facility decision is on the table, and a buyer-lens read when an offer shows up.

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What the empty seat costs, on either side of the table.

For physician owners
A full-time finance hire
$160K-$245K Base pay range for a financial manager or practice controller, before benefits and payroll taxes
A seat most practices cannot fill, and do not need full time. So the work goes undone, or lands on the owner at 9pm.
A fractional seat instead
Scoped, flat fee Priced in writing to the practice and the phase, before any work begins
Flat fee, scoped in writing, phase by phase. You buy the decisions, not the headcount.

Full-time pay ranges: BLS, ZipRecruiter.

For deal teams
A full-time business development hire
$250K-$410K Fully loaded, Year 1
$3-4M Enterprise-value drag at typical exit multiples
A scoped engagement instead
2-5 business days Turnaround on a fixed-fee, scoped project
No headcount. No SG&A. No long-term comp. You buy the exact work you need, when you need it.

Institutional-grade work your investment committee can stand behind, without the standing overhead.

Year-one cost comparison. Sources: BLS, FOCUS, Sofer.

Track Record

Representative work product.

Client names and deal identifiers withheld, outputs paraphrased to preserve confidentiality. Deal-seat figures come from the founder's operating record, with prior employers anonymized.

Physician-Owner Engagements
Deal-Team Engagements
From the Deal Seat
02 / Insights

Practitioner-level thinking.

Twice a week, on what actually moves the number: practice economics and owner decisions on one side, sourcing and execution from the deal seat on the other. Free, and the archive is open.

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03 / About

Built by a practitioner.

Shawn Rothlis, founder of Healthcare M&AI
Shawn Rothlis
Founder

Healthcare M&AI was built by a practitioner, not a consulting firm. I spent 8+ years in corporate development, M&A, and strategic finance, including time at PE-backed healthcare platforms running origination, building target universes, and closing deals across $1B+ in cumulative transaction value and 130+ centers acquired.

Before the deal seat I built and reviewed medical-practice and ASC valuations at HealthCare Appraisers, across hospitals, surgery centers, diagnostic centers, and multi-specialty groups. That is 150+ healthcare services businesses valued before I ever sat on the buy side.

Those two halves are the whole business. Physician owners get the read a buyer would run, on their side of the table and a few years before they need it. Deal teams get the sourcing and pipeline work built by someone who has had to close on it.

Corporate Development at a NASDAQ-listed oncology platform
Corporate Development at a PE-backed urgent care platform
8+ years of corporate development, M&A, and strategic finance - across healthcare and non-healthcare transactions
$1B+ cumulative transaction value, 130+ centers acquired and integrated
150+ healthcare services businesses valued, including medical practices and ASCs
04 / FAQ

Common questions.

What does a fractional CFO do for a physician-owned practice?

It is the standing finance seat a founder-owned practice rarely fills: monthly and quarterly performance reviews, a rolling 13-week cash plan, profitability separated by location, payer, and service line, pricing and cost structure work, and an indicative valuation refreshed each year. The work is flat-fee and scoped in writing before each phase.

When does converting an office-based surgical suite into an ASC make sense?

It turns on covered case volume. An office cannot bill a separate facility fee, while a licensed and Medicare-certified ASC can, so the upside sits on insured and medically necessary cases rather than cash-pay cosmetic work. Case mix, volume, and outside surgeon demand decide it, and all three can be modeled before any capital moves.

How do I find out what my medical practice is worth?

An indicative valuation analysis normalizes earnings to what a buyer would use, benchmarks against comparable transactions in your specialty and geography, and ranks the drivers pushing your number up or down. It is prepared for internal management planning rather than as a formal opinion, and most owners refresh it annually.

What is fractional corporate and business development for healthcare M&A?

Fractional corporate and business development is institutional-grade deal research and analysis for healthcare M&A teams - market maps, sector research, deal screening automation, and pre-LOI deal intelligence - delivered across buy-side and sell-side engagements by a practitioner without the cost of a full-time hire. It gives lean deal teams senior deal bandwidth without adding headcount to SG&A or compressing enterprise value at exit.

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