Private Equity Advisory

Coker helps investors, operators, and portfolio companies create defensible healthcare value by integrating valuation, compliance, and operational performance into one coordinated advisory team.

What You Get from Coker’s Private Equity Advisory Team

Whether you’re evaluating an acquisition, preparing a provider group for sale, or optimizing post-close performance, Coker ensures every aspect of a healthcare business withstands investor, lender, regulatory, and operator scrutiny. Our integrated team brings together valuation, compliance, operational, and physician-compensation experts to remove risk, clarify upside, and accelerate value creation across the investment lifecycle.

Operational and Financial Readiness

We assess revenue cycle, payer strategy, cost structure, growth drivers, and provider compensation to determine the true operational health of the business—and identify the levers investors can pull immediately.

Defensible Valuations & Financial Integrity

Our valuation and Quality of Earnings (QoE) teams produce transparent, well­-supported analyses that withstand diligence from legal, lenders, regulators, and counterparties—reducing negotiation friction and deal-side surprises.

Regulatory &Compliance Risk Removal

Coker identifies Stark, AKS, documentation, coding, and operational compliance issues early, quantifies exposure, and provides remediation steps that protect enterprise value and keep deals on track.

Post-Close Integration & Value Creation

We help operators integrate leadership, unify systems, rationalize compensation, and activate cost-out and growth initiatives to improve EBITDA and accelerate the investment thesis.

Post-Close Integration & Value Creation

We help operators integrate leadership, unify systems, rationalize compensation, and activate cost-out and growth initiatives to improve EBITDA and accelerate the investment thesis.

Post-Close Integration & Value Creation

We help operators integrate leadership, unify systems, rationalize compensation, and activate cost-out and growth initiatives to improve EBITDA and accelerate the investment thesis.

Why Healthcare Investors Trust Coker

For more than three decades, Coker has advised private equity firms, lenders, and healthcare operators through every stage of the transaction lifecycle—from pre-LOI assessments to post-close transformation. Our insights help investors move faster, make better decisions, and protect value across complex healthcare deals.

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Challenges We Solve

How Coker Prepares Healthcare Investments Before, During & After Diligence

Deal Readiness That Holds Up Under Scrutiny

We prepare operational, financial, and compliance elements so both buy-side and sell-side teams enter diligence with clarity, transparency, and confidence.

Early Risk Identification

Our experts uncover compliance landmines, provider comp issues, RCM failures, and structural inefficiencies that could reduce valuation or kill a deal—and help fix them early.

Alignment for Post-Close Momentum

We bring leadership, data, compensation, and governance into alignment so investors can activate the value-creation plan immediately after closing.

Alignment for Post-Close Momentum

We bring leadership, data, compensation, and governance into alignment so investors can activate the value-creation plan immediately after closing.

Services

Explore the service offerings that make up Coker’s Private Equity Advisory capability.
Business Valuation

We perform business valuation and provide advisory services to healthcare entities.

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Financial & Operational Due Diligence

Each potential transaction is unique, and our due diligence informs both the viability of the deal and the future success of the newly formed or combined entities.

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Operational & Financial Performance Improvement

Customized strategies to enhance care delivery, streamline operations, and improve financial performance.

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Revenue Cycle Optimization

Uncover inefficiencies and implement sustainable improvements across your entire revenue cycle.

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Revenue Analytics

We help healthcare organizations optimize their revenue potential by turning complex claims data into actionable insights.

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Provider Compensation Strategy

We work with health systems and medical groups to design tailored, market-based compensation strategies.

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Payer Contract Management & Negotiation

We support your organization with payer contracting assistance that fits your needs, regardless of the payment methodologies currently popular in your market.

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Vendor Negotiations & Contracting

We can review your vendor contracts to ensure that you are protected.

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Compliance Audit Due Diligence

Our experts examine the effectiveness of the target organization’s compliance program.

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Post-Merger Integration

A deal’s due diligence process should center less on evaluating the parameters of a deal and more on what the parties should be planning for after the agreement.

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Governance Structure Optimization

We're equipped to help evaluate current governance structures and implement the changes necessary for optimization.

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Need a more efficient transaction process?

Speak with our private equity advisory team to see how Coker helps investors accelerate diligence, fix issues early, and drive measurable post-close value creation.

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FAQs

What makes Coker’s Private Equity Advisory unique?

Coker unites valuation, QoE, compliance, physician compensation, and operational expertise into a single advisory partner—eliminating the fragmentation that slows deals and increasing the defensibility of every decision.

Can Coker support both buyers and sellers?

Yes. We help investors evaluate targets and also prepare provider groups or assets for sale by strengthening operational, financial, and compliance readiness before going to market.

Do you provide post-close advisory?

Absolutely. We support integration, performance improvement, compensation redesign, analytics buildout, and leadership alignment to accelerate value creation after close.

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