Option Care Health’s plan to buy home care giant Amedisys for $3.6 billion continues a trend of providers, payers and retailers hoping to cash in on the lucrative market of baby boomers who increasingly prefer to get healthcare at home and age in place.
The proposed merger between Option Care Health, the nation’s largest private home infusion provider, and Amedisys’ home health, hospital at home and palliative care businesses would…