Danielle Bangs is a director at Veralon. She advises healthcare organizations on merger and affiliation efforts, joint ventures, and other partnerships and transactions, including partner selection, partnership development and deal structuring, negotiation and process facilitation. She also provides advice on a range of financial and business planning initiatives.She has worked with health systems, community hospitals, academic medical centers, behavioral health providers, health plans and clinically integrated networks/accountable care organizations.

Bangs has experience in transaction advisory and support including due diligence, negotiation, partner selection and deal structuring; strategic, business and financial planning for hospitals and health systems; physician alignment efforts, including primary care network development, selection of alignment models and evaluating physician practices; and compensation design and fair market value analyses.

Bangs was most recently director of corporate development for Universal Health Services. In this capacity she was responsible for a wide range of transactions across the company’s markets, including joint ventures, acquisitions, partnerships and strategic investments. These transactions spanned ambulatory surgery centers, home health, hospitals, behavioral health, physician groups, Medicare Advantage plans and ACOs.

Bangs received designation as a certified valuation analyst from National Association of Certified Valuators and Analysts. She holds a Bachelor of Science in policy analysis and management and a Master of Health Administration from Cornell University.