PRIVATE hospital operator Healthscope has confirmed an unsolicited takeover bid from private equity group BGH Capital.
The proposal, described as a "preliminary, non-binding indication of interest" specifies an indicative price of $2.36 in cash per share for the company, with the offer seeing the company soar almost 20% to $2.13 yesterday.
Healthscope operates 43 hospitals across Australia, with the majority of the pharmacy operations at the hospitals conducted in partnership with HPS (PD 18 Jul 2016).
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