The number of mergers and acquisitions of health care services companies rose rapidly from 1994 to 1997, more than doubling from 536 to 1,284. But as stock prices took a downward turn and merged entities confronted management difficulties, the number of health care company mergers fell, dropping to their lowest level (392) in 2003, then increasing in 2004 (425) and 2005 (525). Home health care and long term care activity, in particular, increased in 2005. Mergers and acquisitions of health care technology companies increased from 2000-2002 for all but E-health and have fluctuated since 2002.

	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005
SERVICES
Behavioral Health	27	47	35	61	53	46	33	17	13	11	20	24
Home Health Care	58	76	136	137	83	63	32	28	37	25	29	72
Hospitals	92	128	163	197	137	109	84	83	56	38	59	53
Laboratories: MRI, Dialysis	56	60	91	113	94	55	61	66	50	36	38	39
Long Term Care	26	73	130	114	149	80	47	53	71	98	86	128
Managed Care	39	27	59	57	62	66	46	30	33	28	37	30
Physician Medical Groups	90	135	265	311	264	139	70	39	36	24	36	34
Rehabilitation	50	66	62	80	46	28	11	16	16	18	10	9
Other	98	62	150	214	256	148	101	109	156	114	110	136
TECHNOLOGY
Biotechnology	N/A						52	85	96	127	96	113
E-Health							71	86	59	53	49	60
Medical Devices							76	120	175	164	133	141
Pharmaceuticals							41	87	147	170	171	128