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.
M&A & Strategic Finance
Transaction Value
Acquired & Integrated
Businesses Valued
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.
Corporate Development
For platforms, funds, and banks. A fractional or interim development seat, market mapping and deal sourcing, sourcing on retainer, screening automation on inbound flow, pre-LOI deal intelligence, and sector research behind the thesis.
What the empty seat costs, on either side of the table.
Full-time pay ranges: BLS, ZipRecruiter.
Institutional-grade work your investment committee can stand behind, without the standing overhead.
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.
A physician-owned surgical practice was providing facility and support services to another physician under an arrangement set years earlier by rough agreement. Built the true cost-to-provide floor bottoms-up from the practice's own staffing, space, supply, and overhead data, then set it against the existing arrangement and against matched written quotes. The result was an exact monthly floor, the gap to what was actually being charged, and a defensible basis the owner's counsel could work from.
The owner wanted to know which payers were holding money and whether the gap was the billing vendor, a payer, or a credentialing problem. Delivered the realization read across locations and payers, separating what was a collections issue from what was a contracting issue, so the fix could be aimed at the right party instead of applied everywhere at once.
Rather than a one-time number, the owner gets a value range refreshed each year against actuals, with the drivers ranked. Separately, an ASC conversion pro forma separated cash-pay volume from ASC-eligible case volume, so the facility decision rested on the cases that a licensed center can actually be paid a facility fee for.
Engaged to map and enrich interventional pain targets across one state for a PE-backed platform. A close read flagged a practice the client had set aside on its pass list, miscoded as chiropractic; verification against eight independent public sources confirmed a physician-led interventional pain practice with a strong succession profile. Every practice in the 20-target universe was checked against at least two independent public sources, with an 18-of-18 spot-check pass and zero re-runs.
A healthcare advisory firm expanding into a new sub-sector needed intelligence on which independent practices to pitch for sell-side representation. Screening ran against the firm's own prospect criteria, across the non-contiguous geographies it specified. Delivered a tiered pitch list with decision-maker identification, directional revenue and EBITDA ranges paired with payer mix estimates, geographic coverage maps with a market and competitive landscape for each metro, a mapped buyer universe, and approach notes calibrated to opening the conversation at the physician level.
A PE fund finalizing a thesis entry in a new specialty vertical needed market structure intelligence before committing to active sourcing or a full-time BD hire. Delivered a tiered target universe with ownership verification, competitive landscape mapping, and valuation benchmarking against comparable transactions; the map anchored the fund's investment committee materials for the new vertical.
At a NASDAQ-listed oncology platform, negotiated a specialty pharmacy acquisition down to the license itself: $100K paid, fixed assets acquired at effectively no cost, and change-of-control approval managed through the California State Board of Pharmacy. The license accelerated a specialty medication line for underserved Medi-Cal patients that generated $30M in incremental annual revenue.
At a PE-backed urgent care platform, led financial diligence on a $120M acquisition of 100+ centers from a national payer while running a concurrent $50M joint venture with a major academic health system. The acquired assets outperformed the deal model by 32% in first-year EBITDA, and together the two deals grew the platform's center count by 30%.
Led medical and radiation oncology acquisitions nationwide for a NASDAQ-listed platform, growing the portfolio from 70 to 90+ centers. Architected a South Florida regional entry from a $4M single-site beachhead through 15+ acquisitions and de novo sites, reaching the network adequacy that supported value-based payer contracts across 2M+ risk-based lives.
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.
Built by a practitioner.
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.
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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