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Envision Healthcare, AmSurg Merger Would Create $10B Company
Envision Healthcare Holdings Inc. and AmSurg Corp. agreed to merge, in a deal that will create a company providing a range of hospital-related services worth some $10 billion. The all-stock deal has a fixed exchange ratio of 0.334 AmSurg share per Envision share, the companies confirmed in a statement. Envision shareholders will own about 53% of the combined company, which is to be named Envision Healthcare Corp. It will have dual headquarters in Nashville, Tenn., and Greenwood Village, Colo. (Cimilluca and Mattioli, 6/15)
AmSurg and Envision Healthcare have agreed to combine forces, creating one of the largest physician staffing companies in the country.In addition to a physician staffing business, Nashville-based AmSurg would contribute more than 250 ambulatory surgery centers to the combined company. (Barkholz, 6/15)
