- Acquisition represents Insight Imaging’s continued focus on strategic market investment
- Acquisition particularly enhances Insight Imaging’s Phoenix strategic market
LAKE FOREST, Calif. ... May 13, 2010 ... InSight Health Services Holdings Corp. (“Insight Imaging”) (OTCBB: ISGT) today announced that it had signed a definitive agreement to acquire eight imaging centers in the Phoenix, Arizona, El Paso, Texas, and Las Cruces, New Mexico areas from subsidiaries of MedQuest, Inc. and Novant Health, Inc., for a total purchase price of approximately $8.5 million. The centers generated approximately $18.7 million in net revenues in 2009. In a separate transaction, Insight Imaging has agreed to sell mobile imaging assets in North Carolina for approximately $9.2 million to an affiliate of MedQuest and Novant. The mobile imaging assets generated approximately $3.3 million in net revenues in 2009. Insight Imaging expects the transactions, which are expected to close in July 2010, to be accretive to adjusted EBITDA after reflecting anticipated operating synergies.
Kip Hallman, President and CEO of Insight Imaging said, “We are excited to be able to add these strategically well-placed imaging centers to our existing markets. We believe that their addition will improve our strategic positioning and value to our referring physicians, patients and payers.”
About Insight Imaging
Insight Imaging, headquartered in Lake Forest, California, is a provider of retail and wholesale diagnostic imaging services. Insight Imaging serves a diverse portfolio of customers, including healthcare providers, such as hospitals and physicians, and payors, such as managed care organizations, Medicare, Medicaid and insurance companies, in over 30 states, including the following targeted regional markets: California, Arizona, Texas, New England, the Carolinas, Florida and the Mid-Atlantic states. For more information, please visit www.insighthealth.com.
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