Medical Equipment Appraisal for Mergers & Acquisitions

Value Doctor appraises medical equipment for healthcare mergers and acquisitions, giving buyers, sellers, private equity sponsors, and deal teams an independent equipment value from letter of intent through closing. Once your data room is open, we review the equipment schedule and turn around a report that fits your signing or closing date.

Healthcare deals move on financial statements, but the equipment behind those numbers, the imaging suite, the surgical platform, the lab analyzers, often anchors a meaningful share of enterprise value and shapes the purchase price allocation once the deal closes. Buyers use our reports to confirm the target's asset base supports the multiple being paid; sellers use them to defend the number in negotiation; lenders use them to underwrite acquisition financing against the equipment as collateral.

We appraise equipment across every setting involved in a healthcare transaction, including hospitals, ambulatory surgery centers, imaging centers, dental service organizations (DSOs), and physician practices being rolled into a larger group. Each report documents equipment condition, comparable market evidence, and a methodology built to survive review by the counterparty's advisors, the acquirer's auditors, and any lender financing the deal.

Value Doctor Applies the Right Standard of Value to Every Healthcare Deal

The right standard of value depends on where the appraisal sits in the deal, and applying the wrong one can distort a purchase price, an allocation, or an escrow release. Our reports identify the appropriate standard and document the market evidence behind it.

Fair Market Value: The price equipment would bring between a willing buyer and willing seller, used for due diligence, deal negotiation, earnout calculations, and asset-based acquisition financing.

Fair Value for Financial Reporting: The value used to allocate the purchase price to acquired equipment under ASC 805, supporting the acquirer's opening balance sheet and audit review.

Orderly Liquidation Value: The value expected from a sale over a reasonable marketing period, used when a deal involves closing a location, divesting surplus equipment, or settling a working capital true-up.

We tell you which standard applies and back it with comparable sales data and condition analysis the other side's advisors, lenders, and auditors will want before releasing an escrow holdback or signing off on the allocation.

Value Doctor Builds Every M&A Report to Survive Diligence and Audit Review

Every transaction appraisal Value Doctor prepares follows the Uniform Standards of Professional Appraisal Practice (USPAP), published by The Appraisal Foundation. Deal counsel, lenders, and auditors expect USPAP-consistent methodology because it gives the valuation the independence and documentation trail needed once the other side's advisors start asking questions.

Each report includes:

Equipment Identification: Model, serial number, age, and condition documentation for every item in the equipment schedule.

Standard of Value: A clear statement of whether fair market value, fair value for financial reporting, or orderly liquidation value applies, and why.

Market Research: Comparable sales data and market evidence supporting the value conclusion, ready to drop into the data room.

Appraiser Certification: A signed USPAP certification and statement of qualifications, suitable for diligence files, audit support, and testimony if the value is challenged post-closing.

Our appraisers hold credentials with leading organizations such as the American Society of Appraisers (ASA) and the Certified Appraisers Guild of America (CAGA), and every report follows USPAP.