---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001766400-25-000113"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "PNTG"
cik: "0001766400"
company_name: "Pennant Group, Inc."
filed_at: "2025-10-02T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-17T04:56:48.259207+00:00"
event_type: "m_and_a"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.75
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.75
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Pennant completes $146.5M acquisition of 54 home health/hospice locations from UnitedHealth/Amedisys

## Summary
- Acquisition includes home health, hospice and personal care operations in Tennessee, Georgia and Alabama.
- Total cash consideration of $146.5 million for 54 locations; two-thirds of revenue from home health, one-third from hospice.
- Transaction stems from antitrust divestiture required for UnitedHealth/Amedisys merger with DOJ settlement.
- Transition services agreement in place; Pennant prepared throughout 2025 to execute the deal.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001766400-25-000113
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: PNTG
- cik: 0001766400
- company_name: Pennant Group, Inc.
- filed_at: 2025-10-02T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: m_and_a
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.75
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.75
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 2.01, 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1766400/000176640025000113/0001766400-25-000113-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1766400/000176640025000113/pntg-20251002.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001766400-25-000113
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001766400-25-000113.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001766400-25-000113.txt

## Source-grounded claims
- claim_id: c1cf1b1bd465353ccffec1784909d8695aa6d0b1
  claim: Pennant Group, Inc. completed an acquisition involving UnitedHealth Group Incorporated, Amedisys, Inc. and certain other sellers for $146,531,160 in cash (closed 2025-10-01).
  evidence_excerpt: to the business of providing home health, hospice, or palliative care services through certain providers (the “Transaction”). The total consideration for the Transaction was $146,531,160 in cash, which is subject to certain post-closing adjustments pursuant to the Purchase Agreement, as amended by the Amendment. Except for the Transaction, there are no material
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1766400/000176640025000113/0001766400-25-000113-index.htm

This AI-assisted summary is a reading aid. Review the linked SEC EDGAR filing before relying on any specific claim.