Healthcare Transaction & Growth Advisory

Advisory Across the Full Lifecycle of the Dental & Healthcare Enterprise.

We operate at the intersection of healthcare operators and capital, advising the builders of practices and the investors who acquire them.

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M&A Advisory| Capital & Growth Lending| DSO / MSO Formation| Strategic Advisory

Choose Your Path.

Wherever you sit in the lifecycle of healthcare enterprise, there is a door built for you.

Doctor-Led Groups & Founders

Build and Scale Your Practice or Group

Formation, growth infrastructure, and exit readiness for independently owned practices and emerging groups. Imagine having your own CEO, CFO, and COO infrastructure, without giving up clinical independence.

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Healthcare Investors

Deploy Capital with Confidence

Dedicated advisory for private equity, family offices, and strategic acquirers. Sourcing, underwriting, execution, and value creation across the full investment lifecycle.

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Capital & Lending

Fund Your Next Move

Growth and acquisition capital, lending access, and capital structuring through HealthStream Capital, the investment arm of the HSV ecosystem.

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The Structural Advantage

One Firm. Two Vantage Points.

Each side of our practice generates intelligence the other side cannot buy.

Operators → Capital

Our work with doctor-led groups provides real-time visibility into platform formation, performance, and seller dynamics, informing how we advise institutional capital.

Capital → Operators

Our work with institutional investors gives us direct insight into what buyers value, allowing us to prepare founder-led groups for premium outcomes before the transaction begins.

Neither pure-play brokers nor generalist consultants can replicate this structural advantage.

One Lifecycle. Two Engagement Paths.

Every dental platform moves through the same arc. HSV advises on both sides of it, and the transaction is where the two paths meet.

Operators Build

01

Formation

Entity architecture, governance, and equity alignment

02

Growth

Operating infrastructure and multi-site scale

03

Transaction

Where operators and capital meet

04

Value Creation

EBITDA realization and add-on integration

05

Exit

Institutional-grade positioning and return realization

Capital Acquires & Scales

Hundreds of Clients Have Stood Where You Stand.

Founders, groups, and investors who faced the same decisions you face now. The results speak plainly.

300+

Dental transactions

$650M+

Capital sourced

20+

Platforms formed

75+

Years of experience

Grounded in Firsthand Execution

Operated

Former C-level leadership within large, scaled healthcare organizations

Built

Platforms taken from inception through multi-site expansion

Deployed

Principal capital invested in dental and healthcare platforms

Executed

Exits aligned with institutional return objectives and transaction discipline

Advisory grounded in firsthand execution across the full lifecycle of healthcare platforms, not in diligence models or theoretical frameworks.

Healthcare Provider Services

DentalFounding sector Behavioral HealthFragmented, accelerating demand EndocrinologyEarly-stage consolidation Wellness & LongevityConsumer-driven formation market Physician Practice ManagementMulti-specialty platforms Medical AestheticsActive platform formation Plastic SurgerySurgeon-led economics Women's HealthSustained institutional interest

The same lifecycle applies in every sector we serve: platforms form, scale, transact, and compound value. Sector economics change; the discipline does not.

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Two front doors. One strategic capability.

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Founders Overview Optionality Assessment Group Formation M&A Advisory Outsourced COO Outsourced CFO

Advisory for Founders

Your Practice, Your Outcome.

We partner with independently owned practices and emerging groups to build, scale, and manage healthcare platforms designed for long-term growth or a premium transaction.

The Platform Journey

Perform

Collections, revenue cycle, margin visibility

Professionalize

FP&A, leadership structure, governance

Expand

Acquisitions and de novos, disciplined integration

Transact

HSV-led go-to-market, every buyer channel

Every doctor-led platform moves through the same four stages. Our advisory meets you at your stage and builds toward the next one, so the enterprise you build is the enterprise buyers pay a premium for.

The Operator's Dilemma

Scaling beyond 3 to 5 locations breaks the systems that got you there. Growth demands infrastructure: financial discipline, governance, leadership architecture, and operational systems that hold up under institutional diligence.

Most founders face a false choice between selling early or scaling alone. We built a third path.

What We Do

Current State & Optionality Assessment

A validated financial baseline, a defendable enterprise valuation, and your strategic options modeled to specific outcomes. Know exactly where you stand before you decide anything.

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Group Formation & Platform Strategy

DSO and MSO architecture, governance design, and equity alignment built to withstand diligence from day one, with a formation thesis that scales from your first add-on forward.

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M&A Advisory

Sell-side representation across every buyer channel, and buy-side support for groups making acquisitions. Diligence, valuation, integration, and capital under one advisor.

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Outsourced COO Services

Executive operating leadership without the full-time hire. Systems, accountability, and management cadence that let clinicians lead clinical culture while the enterprise runs with discipline.

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Outsourced CFO Services

Strategic finance leadership for owners serving as the de facto CFO. Forecasting, capital readiness, and enterprise value strategy, not bookkeeping.

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“Imagine having your own CEO, CFO, and COO infrastructure, without giving up clinical independence.” The HSV Operating Partnership

300+

Dental transactions

$650M+

Capital sourced

20+

Platforms formed

75+

Years of experience

Control your outcome.

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Founders · Optionality

Current State & Optionality Assessment

Make the right decision with complete clarity. Investment-grade financial analysis, a defendable enterprise valuation, and your strategic pathways quantified.

At some stage, every practice owner faces the same questions. Should I sell my practice or group? Should I continue to grow and scale? Should I bring in a partner or transition ownership?

These are high-stakes decisions, and most dentists are forced to navigate them without a complete picture. Your CPA, attorney, and wealth advisor each provide valuable input, but none are built to evaluate your full business, your full value, and your full set of options in one place. The gap is structural, not aspirational: financial reporting is often incomplete, valuation assumptions are untested, and optionality is discussed abstractly rather than modeled with precision.

Three Questions This Assessment Answers

Question 01

Where do you stand today?

A validated picture of financial health, profitability, cash flow profile, and capital structure, built from source data, not management summaries.

Question 02

What is the business worth, and why?

An objective valuation range supported by market and intrinsic methodologies, with full transparency into the assumptions and adjustments that drive the number.

Question 03

What are your viable paths forward?

Quantified, scenario-based strategic alternatives covering organic growth, ownership transition, and platform formation, each modeled to specific financial outcomes.

Your Options, Clearly Modeled

We do not provide opinions. We provide quantified scenarios, compared side by side.

Sell or Partner

Full sale, partial sale, or recapitalization
JV structures and equity rollover
Cash today versus long-term upside
Control and compensation trade-offs

Grow and Scale

Revenue and margin expansion levers
Capacity and operational constraints
24 to 36 month forward projections
Capital requirements and returns

Buy-In or Buyout

Ownership transition structuring
Equity valuation and pricing
Compensation alignment
Long-term economic outcomes

What You Receive

A complete, decision-ready package designed to withstand institutional diligence.

Executive Summary & Key Findings

A standalone synthesis of financial health, enterprise value, and strategic positioning.

Financial Databook

Historical and adjusted P&L, balance sheet analysis, cash flow, and provider compensation detail.

Quality of Earnings Bridge

A documented walk from reported EBITDA to adjusted EBITDA across every normalization category.

Normalized Financial Model

Historical financials, pro forma adjustments, and sensitivity analysis built for institutional presentation.

Valuation Summary

A triangulated enterprise valuation range with methodologies, assumptions, and market benchmarking.

Optionality Scenarios & Roadmap

Quantified pathway comparisons plus a prioritized 12 to 36 month strategic roadmap.

ClarityConfidenceControlOptionalityTransaction Readiness

Practices with 1 to 5 locations can typically expect completion within 4 to 6 weeks of kickoff.

Know your position. Then choose your path.

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Founders · Transactions

M&A Advisory

Transaction advisory for doctor-led practices and groups, on both sides of the table. We reduce time, risk, and friction in the deal process with a 360-degree view of every transaction, delivered by a team that has owned, operated, and invested in the businesses being bought and sold.

Healthcare M&A is not for the faint-hearted.

Anyone with even the slightest exposure to healthcare M&A will confirm that acquiring medical or dental practices, no matter the scale, is a major undertaking. Process discipline is what separates premium outcomes from expensive lessons, and process discipline is what we bring.

Two Directions. One Discipline.

Sell-Side Representation

When you are ready to transact, HSV leads the go-to-market across every buyer channel: PE-backed DSOs, regional groups, and doctor-owned platforms. Prepared sellers command premium outcomes, and preparation is what the rest of our advisory builds toward.

Buy-Side Acquisition Support

For growing groups making add-on acquisitions, a disciplined approach to identifying, acquiring, and integrating the right practices: deal readiness, target screening, diligence, and integration planning that protects the value you are paying for.

The Four-Phase Approach

ITrue Diligence

An approach unique to the industry among M&A advisory firms. True Diligence evaluates and provides insight on the state of the enterprise across financial and tax, clinical and regulatory, compliance, and operational dimensions.

IIOperations & Integration Advisory

Effectively and efficiently integrating new assets into your portfolio can determine the lifelong viability and success of the investment. Our team of former DSO operators ensures it succeeds.

IIIValuation Services

Valuation is a complex process requiring a skillful blend of fundamental analysis, industry experience, and sound judgment. HealthStream's valuation team has the expertise to establish a defensible, actionable conclusion.

IVGrowth Capitalization

M&A growth equity and debt, venture and private equity capital raises, and related strategic advisory, so the capital stack serves the acquisition strategy.

What We Deliver

Outsourced M&A / Development Team

Deal Sourcing & Origination

Financial Diligence and Analytics

Valuation Services

Buy Side Quality of Earnings

Acquisition Model Creation

Compliance and Clinical Diligence

Capital raise support for acquisitions, spanning M&A equity, debt, and private capital, is delivered through HealthStream Capital.

How We Do It

The buy-side acquisition process, managed end to end. Engagements can span the full sequence or be scoped to individual stages.

1

Discovery

We create, or seek to understand, your organization's benchmarks for a successful acquisition

2

Source Target Acquisitions

We leverage our ecosystem of industry-leading CPA, legal, and advisory firms and sellers

3

Diligence

Construct the financial and operational timeline through data collection and evaluation
Strategize for, and facilitate, seller meetings

4

Modeling

Deliver detailed insight on valuation, historic offer trends, and risks for similar practices in market

5

Offer & Negotiation

Issue the offer to the seller
Deploy tactics and strategies designed to maximize negotiation leverage and improve timing to acceptance

6

Closing

Advise and manage across what can be 100 touch points of the typical closing process

7

Post-Close Integration

Assign specific accountabilities to optimize staffing
Build templates to facilitate office integration and efficiencies
Project manage and oversee against KPI performance

Who This Serves

Growth-Focused Practices

Single locations preparing for a first acquisition, a partnership, or an eventual sale.

Emerging Groups

Doctor-led groups executing add-on acquisitions and building toward platform scale.

Established DSOs & MSOs

Scaled organizations that need transaction depth without expanding internal deal teams.

Owners Preparing to Transact

Founders approaching a liquidity decision who want the buyer's playbook before going to market.

Healthcare investors and funds pursuing buy-side mandates are served by our dedicated investor practice. Explore TAG Buy-Side Advisory.

Leverage our depth as owners, operators, and investors.

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Founders · Operations

Outsourced COO Services

Executive operating leadership for growing groups, without the full-time hire. We build the systems, decision paths, and accountability that keep the enterprise moving, so you lead from vision instead of vigilance.

What the Engagement Covers

IOperational Discovery & Analysis

Stakeholder interviews, vendor and contract review, operational systems evaluation, and an audit of current initiatives to isolate what needs attention first.

IILeadership & Organizational Assessment

Team strengths and skill gap analysis, cultural and mission alignment, and role realignment so the right people hold the right seats.

IIIStrategic Vision & Goal Development

Vision setting with ownership and a goal framework that translates big-picture objectives into measurable targets across administrative, clinical, and operational areas.

IVTalent Strategy & Leadership Development

Hiring frameworks, retention and career pathing, standardized onboarding, and targeted training across the full patient journey.

VPerformance Metrics & Data-Driven Management

KPI development tailored to your goals, real-time dashboards and reporting, and a continuous improvement culture aligned around quantifiable outcomes.

VIOperational Strategy & Ongoing Support

A unified operational framework to centralize and scale operations, weekly management cadence, change management, and hands-on implementation support as the group evolves.

Outcomes

Efficiency & Centralized Systems

Scalable processes, standardized reporting, and shared service models that improve productivity and lower costs.

Leadership & Team Alignment

Role realignment and a refined talent strategy ensure the right people are in the right positions, driving performance and engagement.

Readiness for Investment & Expansion

A systematic operational framework and cohesive leadership team position the group for acquisitions, funding, and strategic transitions.

Stop being the glue. Build the structure.

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Founders · Finance

Outsourced CFO Services

Strategic finance leadership for growth-minded healthcare operators. CFO-level direction without the full-time overhead, delivered by a team that has led the budgets, raised the capital, and grown the groups.

In most privately held dental and medical businesses, the owner serves as the de facto CFO, without the time, training, or tools to lead a high-performing finance function.

We step in as fractional or interim CFOs, delivering strategic guidance, financial insight, and execution capacity to unlock enterprise value. We are not bookkeepers; we are your strategic finance partner. Our work is most effective when your internal team manages day-to-day accounting, freeing us to focus on analysis, decision-making, capital readiness, and growth strategy.

Full-Stack Finance Function

IFinancial Analysis & Strategic Framework

Comprehensive financial review, KPI dashboards and industry benchmarking, proactive budget and forecasting cycles, and profitability enhancement initiatives.

IIOpportunity & Risk Analysis

Industry positioning, compliance and operational risk assessment, debt and capital structure review, liquidity and contract stability, and M&A exposure review.

IIICash Flow Planning & Projections

Scenario-based, stress-tested cash forecasting covering payroll, hiring timelines, capital investment, and growth-stage funding, aligned with strategic priorities.

IVStrategic Planning & Capital Access

Long-range financial roadmaps, support for capital raises and lender negotiations, and planning for succession, ESOPs, and incentive structures.

Structured for Flexibility, Aligned to Outcomes

Engagement models include fixed-fee pricing scoped to defined deliverables, hourly advisory, performance-based billing tied to revenue or activity metrics, and structures aligned to value growth identified. We continuously reassess your finance needs so the function scales with the business.

Financial OversightData-Driven DecisionsRisk-Optimized StrategyCash ControlGrowth Execution

CFO-level clarity, without the full-time hire.

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Investor Advisory · Since 2021

Transaction & Advisory Group

Strategic advisory for healthcare investors, from private equity firms and family offices to independent sponsors and strategic acquirers, entering, expanding, and scaling investments in dental and multi-site healthcare markets.

TAG is HealthStream Ventures' dedicated advisory division for healthcare investors deploying capital into platform acquisitions. Unlike traditional intermediaries, TAG operates as a strategic partner to capital: aligned with investor outcomes across the full investment lifecycle, from opportunity identification through exit positioning.

Since 2021, TAG has partnered with healthcare investors not only to underwrite and execute transactions, but to identify investment opportunities, develop acquisition pipelines, and build scalable platform strategies, particularly for investors entering the space for the first time or seeking to expand beyond their current capabilities.

We help healthcare investors identify the right opportunities, structure transactions defensibly, build platforms that scale, and unlock enterprise value through disciplined, execution-driven operations.

Advisory Capabilities

IOpportunity Identification

Target sourcing, pipeline development, and acquisition prioritization aligned with strategy, geography, and return profile.

IIPlatform Entry & Selection

First-investment advisory including platform selection, risk calibration, and structuring the initial transaction to scale rather than simply close.

IIIUnderwriting & Diligence

Independent thesis validation, EBITDA normalization, valuation modeling, and IC decision support free from sponsor framing.

IVTransaction Execution

Deal structuring, LOI development, negotiation strategy, IC materials, and cross-party coordination through closing.

VValue Creation & Scale

100-Day Plans, EBITDA optimization, add-on roll-up strategy, and governance implementation across PE-backed platforms.

Full Capability Detail

Operator-Led. Investor-Aligned.

We have operated the businesses our clients are acquiring. Built the platforms they are trying to scale. Invested as principals. Underwritten and executed the strategies they are evaluating. And exited platforms aligned with institutional return objectives.

Our advisory is grounded in what actually works in practice, not in diligence models or theoretical frameworks.

Why HealthStream

Portfolio Platform Advisory

Our mandate does not end at closing.

TAG supports PE-backed dental and healthcare platforms through EBITDA realization, integration of add-on acquisitions, governance maturation, and the operational infrastructure required to scale beyond a firm's internal capabilities.

Client Outcomes

Clarity

Independent understanding of earnings quality, risks, and value drivers, free from sponsor framing.

Confidence

Defensible underwriting and investment rationale that withstands IC scrutiny.

Control

Structured execution discipline and realized post-close value tied to EBITDA and enterprise value.

Full Client Outcomes

Discuss your next platform investment.

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TAG · Capabilities

Advisory Capabilities

A unified advisory model spanning opportunity identification through post-close value creation. Engagements can span the full lifecycle or be scoped to a single phase.

01

Opportunity Identification & Pipeline Development

TAG sources, refines, and prioritizes acquisition opportunities aligned with each investor's strategy, geographic focus, and return profile.

Proprietary target sourcing beyond traditional auction processes
Market mapping and competitive landscape analysis across dental and healthcare verticals
Pipeline prioritization frameworks calibrated to investment thesis and return requirements
Ongoing pipeline management and deal flow curation throughout the investment period

02

Platform Entry & Selection Strategy

For investors making their first investment in dental or healthcare services, TAG provides structured guidance on platform selection, ensuring the initial transaction is built to scale, not simply priced to close.

Market and sub-sector selection advisory for first-time healthcare investors
Platform quality assessment across clinical operations, governance, and scalability
Risk calibration and scenario modeling for initial platform investments
Deal structuring designed for long-term platform development and add-on integration

03

Underwriting & Diligence

TAG provides independent, investor-defensible underwriting that translates diligence into actionable investment insight.

Independent thesis validation and earnings durability assessment
Financial and operational diligence across multi-site platforms
EBITDA normalization, valuation modeling, and acquisition economics
Coordination with QoE providers to translate findings into IC-ready analysis
Structured decision pathways for Investment Committees

04

Transaction Execution

TAG serves as an embedded transaction advisor, providing continuous support from LOI through closing.

Deal structuring aligned with risk allocation and return objectives
LOI development, bid strategy, and negotiation advisory
Investment Committee material preparation and leadership reporting
Cross-party coordination across legal, diligence, and advisory workstreams
Real-time economic analysis and deal structure evolution through closing

05

Value Creation & Platform Scale

TAG develops and executes value creation strategies that translate into realized enterprise value, not theoretical projections.

EBITDA-focused value creation frameworks aligned with sponsor return targets
100-Day Plans designed for immediate post-close execution impact
Add-on acquisition and roll-up strategy, including target identification and integration planning
Governance, KPI, and institutional infrastructure implementation for scaling platforms
Multi-year strategic roadmaps spanning margin expansion, growth CAPEX, and M&A

Apply these capabilities to your mandate.

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TAG · Buy-Side

Buy-Side Transaction Advisory

Embedded buy-side advisory for private equity groups and PE-backed DSOs and MSOs identifying and acquiring dental and multi-site healthcare assets. We function as an extension of your deal team, from thesis definition through closing, with underwriting grounded in operating reality.

Most buy-side processes fail before diligence begins: the thesis is imprecise, the pipeline is auction-dependent, and the underwriting accepts sponsor framing at face value.

TAG leads capital through both halves of the problem. On the identification side, disciplined criteria, proprietary sourcing, and target scoring calibrated to your return profile. On the acquisition side, operator-grade underwriting, EBITDA validation, structuring, and negotiation through close. Advisory is non-contingent and aligned with investment outcomes, not transaction completion.

Two Mandate Types

Platform Acquisition for PE Groups

For funds entering healthcare or acquiring their next platform: entry strategy, platform selection, independent thesis validation, IC-ready underwriting, and execution through close. The initial transaction is structured to scale, not simply priced to close.

Add-On Programs for PE-Backed DSOs & MSOs

For platforms executing buy-and-build: an outsourced M&A and development function that sustains pipeline velocity, applies repeatable underwriting standards to every target, and delivers integration-ready closings at program pace.

How We Lead You Through It

A defined sequence from mandate to close. Each stage produces work product your Investment Committee can act on.

1

Thesis & Criteria Definition

Codify acquisition criteria across geography, size, payer mix, clinical model, and return profile
Align underwriting parameters with fund strategy or platform roadmap

2

Market Mapping & Sourcing

Proprietary target sourcing beyond traditional auction processes
Leverage the HSV ecosystem of CPA, legal, and advisory relationships and seller networks

3

Target Underwriting & Prioritization

Score and rank targets against the codified thesis
Preliminary valuation ranges and risk registers before capital and attention are committed

4

Diligence & EBITDA Validation

Financial and operational diligence with normalized EBITDA bridges
QoE coordination, clinical and compliance diligence, and pressure-testing of seller narratives

5

Structuring & Negotiation

LOI development, consideration structure, and risk allocation through earnouts, rollovers, and contingencies
Real-time modeling of deal changes and counterparty strategy

6

Close & Transition to Value Creation

Cross-party coordination across legal, diligence, and lender workstreams through closing
Handoff into 100-Day planning and integration so underwritten value becomes realized value

What Your IC Receives

Investment Committee Memorandum

Independent recommendation: proceed, renegotiate, defer, or exit.

Underwriting Model & Sensitivities

Base, upside, and downside cases with the assumptions exposed.

Normalized EBITDA Bridge

Current state to achievable state, documented adjustment by adjustment.

Risk Register & Mitigation Plan

Clinical, regulatory, financial, and operational exposures with structuring responses.

Negotiation Strategy Framework

Counterparty positioning, term recommendations, and leverage points.

Closing Workflow

Managed coordination across what can be 100 touch points to close.

The structural edge: our advisory work with doctor-led groups gives us ground-level insight into how sellers think, what motivates them, and where reported earnings diverge from run-rate reality. Your underwriting reflects it.

Put operator-grade underwriting behind your next acquisition.

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TAG · Process

Engagement Model

Structured around the investment lifecycle with defined phases and deliverables at each stage. Engagements can span the full lifecycle or be scoped to individual phases based on the capital partner's requirements. TAG operates as an extension of the investment team, not a separate workstream.

1

Opportunity Identification

Target sourcing and market mapping
Pipeline development and prioritization
Investment thesis refinement
Competitive landscape analysis

Deliverables: Target pipeline, market landscape analysis, thesis alignment framework

2

Pre-LOI & Platform Selection

Platform quality assessment
Thesis validation and risk mapping
Feasibility assessment
Preliminary valuation and structuring

Deliverables: Investment thesis memo, risk register, preliminary valuation range

3

Diligence

Financial and operational diligence
EBITDA normalization
QoE provider coordination
Site-level performance analysis

Deliverables: Diligence findings report, normalized EBITDA bridge, valuation model

4

Transaction Execution

Deal structuring and LOI development
Negotiation strategy
IC material preparation
Cross-party coordination

Deliverables: IC materials, structured term recommendations, closing workflow

5

Post-Close & Value Creation

100-Day Plan development
EBITDA initiative identification
Add-on roll-up strategy
Governance and KPI implementation

Deliverables: Value creation framework, execution roadmap, roll-up pipeline, KPI tracking

Scope an engagement to where you are in the lifecycle.

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TAG · Results

Client Outcomes

What healthcare investors gain from a TAG engagement.

Clarity

A true, independent understanding of earnings quality, risks, market positioning, and value drivers, free from sponsor framing. TAG provides the analytical foundation for informed capital deployment decisions.

Confidence

Defensible underwriting, validated investment theses, and IC-ready rationale grounded in operational reality. Every recommendation withstands institutional scrutiny because it is built on firsthand platform experience.

Control

Structured execution discipline and realized post-close value. Clear pathways from initial acquisition through platform scaling and exit positioning, with enterprise value as the constant measure.

Who We Serve

Private Equity Firms

Platform identification, buy-side diligence, underwriting support, value creation planning, and add-on roll-up strategy.

Family Offices

First-investment entry strategy, thesis validation, operational assessment, and transaction structuring for direct healthcare investments.

Hedge Funds

Sector entry advisory, opportunity screening, independent underwriting, and platform strategy for funds expanding into healthcare direct investments.

Strategic Acquirers

Acquisition pipeline development, target diligence, integration-ready deal structuring, and platform expansion strategy.

Independent Sponsors

Deal sourcing, underwriting support, capital raise positioning, and full-lifecycle transaction advisory for fundless sponsor models.

Feeder Funds & Capital Raisers

Investment thesis development, platform identification, and institutional-grade diligence to support capital formation and deployment.

TAG operates not as a traditional intermediary, but as an extension of the investment team: grounded in operator experience, aligned with investor outcomes, and focused on building platforms that scale, transact, and endure.

Aligned with investor outcomes, not transaction completion.

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HealthStream Capital · Investment Arm

Strategic Capital for the Future of Healthcare.

HealthStream Capital deploys and structures capital for dental and multi-site healthcare enterprises, investing alongside the operators, platforms, and trusted leadership of the HSV ecosystem. The same principals behind 300+ dental transactions and 20+ platform formations stand behind every capital decision.

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How We Partner

Three Steps From Conversation to Capital.

1

Alignment & Strategy

We start with your enterprise, not a term sheet: growth plans, acquisition pipeline, ownership objectives, and the role capital plays in reaching them. Alignment precedes structure.

2

Custom Capital Structuring

We design the debt and equity mix around your objectives: growth capital, acquisition financing, or a blended structure, engineered to protect enterprise value and ownership economics.

3

Deployment & Scale

The transaction executes through HealthStream Capital's independent platform, with the HSV ecosystem's operating discipline carried through deployment, integration, and scale.

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Core Capabilities

Growth & Acquisition Capital

Funding for expansion, add-on acquisitions, and de novo development across the platform lifecycle, structured to the stage the enterprise is actually at.

Principal Investments

Direct investments in dental and multi-site healthcare platforms, made alongside founders and institutional partners with aligned economics.

Capital Structuring & Placement

Debt and equity structuring, lender access, and capital stack design engineered to protect enterprise value through growth and transaction.

Strategic Partnerships

Co-investment and partnership structures that align operators, capital, and the HSV advisory ecosystem around the same outcome.

The portfolio and funding applications live on the dedicated platform.

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HealthStream Capital is a separate legal entity from HealthStream Ventures, LLC. The two firms share common principals and operate as an integrated ecosystem. Nothing on this page constitutes an offer to sell or a solicitation of an offer to buy any security.

Sectors

Healthcare Provider Services.

We advise multi-site provider services platforms across eight sectors. The clinical models differ; the enterprise mechanics do not. In every sector, we serve the founders building platforms and the capital acquiring them, applying the same lifecycle discipline from formation through exit.

Founding Sector

Dental

Our founding sector and deepest bench. From single-doctor practices to multi-region DSOs, we have formed, operated, invested in, and transacted dental platforms across every stage of the consolidation cycle. DSO consolidation remains in its middle innings, and the spread between well-structured and poorly structured platforms continues to widen. That spread is where we work.

Behavioral Health

Accelerating demand and expanding payer support meet deep fragmentation and workforce constraints. Platform outcomes in behavioral health are decided by clinical governance, workforce architecture, and reimbursement discipline, not by acquisition pace.

Endocrinology

Chronic disease prevalence is driving durable demand while consolidation remains early. We advise on platform formation and entry strategy in a specialty where access, infrastructure, and ancillary integration create enterprise value.

Wellness & Longevity

A consumer-driven, largely cash-pay market maturing from concept into enterprise. We help founders and investors underwrite what endures: unit economics, clinical credibility, and operating models that repeat across sites.

Physician Practice Management

Consolidation continues across physician specialties, and growth alone no longer differentiates. We advise PPM platforms on integration, provider alignment, payer complexity, and the infrastructure that supports capital events.

Medical Aesthetics

High consumer demand and low institutional penetration make aesthetics one of the most active formation markets in provider services. Value accrues to platforms that professionalize operations, compliance, and provider economics early.

Plastic Surgery

Surgeon-led economics with durable demand across aesthetic and reconstructive lines. We structure platforms that respect clinical autonomy while building the operating leverage a transaction requires.

Women's Health

A broad care continuum with sustained institutional interest, from OB/GYN and fertility through menopause care. We advise founders and capital on platform structures that scale access while protecting clinical quality.

Beyond These Sectors

The lifecycle framework travels. If your platform or thesis sits adjacent to these sectors, the conversation is worth having. Enterprise mechanics transfer; we underwrite the clinical model case by case.

Sector economics change. The discipline does not.

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Our Firm

We operate at the intersection of healthcare operators and capital.

HealthStream Ventures combines investment banking rigor, legal architecture, operational DSO experience, and principal investment experience under one roof. We advise the builders of practices and the investors who acquire them.

Experience Dimensions

Former C-Level Operators

Advisory informed by firsthand executive leadership within large, scaled healthcare organizations.

Platform Builders

Proven experience building platforms from inception through scale, not inherited or acquired platforms.

Healthcare Platform Investors

Perspectives grounded in direct capital deployment experience in dental and healthcare platforms.

Successful Exit Execution

A track record of exits aligned with institutional investor return objectives and transaction discipline.

Enterprise value is engineered, not hoped for.

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Connect

Start the Conversation.

Tell us who you are and we will route you to the right team. Every inquiry is reviewed by a partner.

Routed to Founder Advisory. A partner from the operator practice will follow up.

Advisory Across the Full Lifecycle of the Dental & Healthcare Enterprise.

Choose Your Path.

Build and Scale Your Practice or Group

Deploy Capital with Confidence

Fund Your Next Move

One Firm. Two Vantage Points.

Hundreds of Clients Have Stood Where You Stand.

Two front doors. One strategic capability.

Your Practice, Your Outcome.

Current State & Optionality Assessment

Group Formation & Platform Strategy

M&A Advisory

Outsourced COO Services

Outsourced CFO Services

Control your outcome.

Current State & Optionality Assessment

Three Questions This Assessment Answers

Where do you stand today?

What is the business worth, and why?

What are your viable paths forward?

Your Options, Clearly Modeled

Sell or Partner

Grow and Scale

Buy-In or Buyout

What You Receive

Executive Summary & Key Findings

Financial Databook

Quality of Earnings Bridge

Normalized Financial Model

Valuation Summary

Optionality Scenarios & Roadmap

Know your position. Then choose your path.

Group Formation & Platform Strategy

Legal & Governance Architecture

Target Profile & Pipeline

Integration Architecture

Capital Planning

The Valuation Inflection

Structure drives valuation. Start with structure.

M&A Advisory

Sell-Side Representation

Buy-Side Acquisition Support

ITrue Diligence

IIOperations & Integration Advisory

IIIValuation Services

IVGrowth Capitalization

Outsourced M&A / Development Team

Deal Sourcing & Origination

Financial Diligence and Analytics

Valuation Services

Buy Side Quality of Earnings

Acquisition Model Creation

Compliance and Clinical Diligence

Discovery

Source Target Acquisitions

Diligence

Modeling

Offer & Negotiation

Closing

Post-Close Integration

Who This Serves

Growth-Focused Practices

Emerging Groups

Established DSOs & MSOs

Owners Preparing to Transact

Leverage our depth as owners, operators, and investors.

Outsourced COO Services

IOperational Discovery & Analysis

IILeadership & Organizational Assessment

IIIStrategic Vision & Goal Development

IVTalent Strategy & Leadership Development

VPerformance Metrics & Data-Driven Management

VIOperational Strategy & Ongoing Support

Outcomes

Efficiency & Centralized Systems

Leadership & Team Alignment

Readiness for Investment & Expansion

Stop being the glue. Build the structure.

Outsourced CFO Services

IFinancial Analysis & Strategic Framework