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Matt Wolf, Director, Health Care Senior Analyst

@MattWolfHC

Matt leads RSM’s health care valuation consulting group. In this capacity, Matt helps health care clients evaluate mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures, and other growth strategies.

In January 2018, Matt was selected as a senior analyst RSM’s cutting edge Industry Eminence Program, which positions its senior analysts to understand, forecast and communicate economic, business and technology trends shaping the industries RSM serves. These senior analysts advise clients on conditions impacting middle market leaders. Matt’s focus is the health care and life sciences space.

Pandemic recovery signals new ways health care can serve and grow

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Health care services are poised to lead the services recovery for the next two years, according to analysis from the UCLA Anderson School of Management. Not only will providers benefit from the return of pre-pandemic volumes, but the increasing likelihood of an endemic virus may present new ways for providers to serve their patients and communities. The ... READ MORE >

CHART OF THE DAY: State disparity in mental health preparedness

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We may be dealing with the mental health after-effects of the pandemic long after we’ve reached herd immunity. According to the United States Census Bureau’s Household Pulse Survey, the average share of adults reporting symptoms of anxiety or depression increased to 41.1% in January. That is a nearly fourfold increase from the 11% observed over the ... READ MORE >

CHART OF THE DAY: Health care sector rides the SPAC wave

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Amid the recent gyrations in the equity markets, special purpose acquisition companies, better known as SPACs, have continued to gain favor, particularly among retail investors flush with savings. And in the middle of this frenzy is the health care sector. Also known as blank-check companies, SPACs essentially flip the traditional initial public offering ... READ MORE >

CHART OF THE DAY: As vaccination begins, health care remains underemployed

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The pandemic brought about a rare reduction in health care jobs at a time when they are most needed, for both patient care and for the effort to vaccinate millions of Americans against COVID-19. Hospitals reduced headcount by 126,200 jobs last April, which was the largest reduction since the Bureau of Labor Statistics began tracking the figure in 1989. The ... READ MORE >

CHART OF THE DAY: Technology investments in health care poised to surge

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After years of pouring money into disruptive technologies in the financial services industry, venture capital firms are turning their attention to the health care ecosystem as the pandemic upends traditional ways of delivering health care. On Sept. 29, SCP Co. registered as a special purpose acquisition company aiming to raise $230 million focused on finding ... READ MORE >

CHART OF THE DAY: Health care costs rise while tax revenue stagnates

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As health care continues to represent a larger portion of U.S. gross domestic product, the federal government's ability to finance that expenditure through tax revenues has relatively declined. Corporate taxes as a percent of GDP peaked at 2.6% in 2007. In the aftermath of the global financial crisis that proportion fell to 1% in 2009 and recovered to 1.9% ... READ MORE >