Private Equity Advisory
Coker’s Private Equity Advisory Team Areas of Expertise
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.
One Team for Healthcare Deal Expertise
Investors eliminate the need to coordinate multiple fragmented advisors. Coker connects financial, operational, and clinical insights to deliver a single, coordinated view of performance and risk.
Accelerated Deal Timelines
By aligning valuation, compliance, and operational readiness from the start, we help you close deals faster while protecting long-term enterprise value.
Experts, focused on your needs.
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
Deal Readiness That Holds Up Under Scrutiny
Early Risk Identification
Alignment for Post-Close Momentum
Performance Optimization for Margin Expansion
Services
We perform business valuation and provide advisory services to healthcare entities.
We have extensive experience in assessing compensation arrangements from fair market value and commercially reasonable perspectives.
Financial clarity and risk insight to support confident healthcare transactions.
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.
Customized strategies to enhance care delivery, streamline operations, and improve financial performance.
Uncover inefficiencies and implement sustainable improvements across your entire revenue cycle.
We help healthcare organizations optimize their revenue potential by turning complex claims data into actionable insights.
We work with health systems and medical groups to design tailored, market-based compensation strategies.
We support your organization with payer contracting assistance that fits your needs, regardless of the payment methodologies currently popular in your market.
We can review your vendor contracts to ensure that you are protected.
Navigate clinical challenges with Coker's expert NorthGauge team and support.
Coker’s expert audit team can perform the coding and claims due diligence review in your M&A transactions.
Our experts examine the effectiveness of the target organization’s compliance program.
We comprehensively evaluate your existing compliance program against industry and governmental agency guidance and recommendations to improve the program's effectiveness.
Healthcare Cost Solutions (HCS) specializes in helping facilities in times of transition by providing key leadership professionals to help manage day-to-day operations and/or to perfect operational efficiencies and strategies.
Our services, including SOaaS and ransomware prevention, are designed to support these efforts and strengthen cybersecurity in the healthcare sector.
Effective compliance programs help prevent fraud, waste, and abuse while promoting a culture of integrity.
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.
We help healthcare organizations develop performance enabling solutions that drive sustainable operational and clinical improvement.
We help healthcare organizations develop performance enabling solutions that drive sustainable operational and clinical improvement.
Our services, expertise, and approach are tailored to answer whatever questions and address any issues with our clients who need assistance with financial modeling and economic analysis.
We're equipped to help evaluate current governance structures and implement the changes necessary for optimization.
Offering an interim management program as a practical solution for planned or unexpected vacancies, bridging an opening during the executive search process.
We help organizations achieve value-based initiatives by aligning partners, forecasting financial returns associated with regulations and payor contracts, and improving clinical workflow.
Navigate clinical challenges with Coker's expert NorthGauge team and support.
It might seem strange to hear from a consulting firm that the patient is at the center of all we do.
Assisting clients with implementing data management architectures that consolidate information, while taking advantage of cost-effective, scalable platforms such as cloud-based services.
We have the data to translate numbers into action.
Online data subscriptions and tools
Business Intelligence Tool. Your Business Data Made Simple.
Our experts can help solve problems facing healthcare providers today.
Healthcare Cost Solutions (HCS) specializes in helping facilities in times of transition by providing key leadership professionals to help manage day-to-day operations and/or to perfect operational efficiencies and strategies.
We have experienced consultants who have spent time in the trenches and offer a broad array of consulting services to meet all aspects of HIPAA compliance.
Ensure Compliance. Strengthen Security. Protect Patient Data.
We can assist you in developing an effective compliance program that addresses risk areas relevant to your sector and consistent with industry guidance.
Navigate clinical challenges with Coker's expert NorthGauge team and support.
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.
FAQs
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.
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.
Absolutely. We support integration, performance improvement, compensation redesign, analytics buildout, and leadership alignment to accelerate value creation after close.
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