Viral Patel

Viral Patel is an Assistant Vice President in Kaufman Hall’s Mergers & Acquisitions practice. He specializes in providing transaction advisory services to health systems, hospitals, health plans, and physician groups supporting them in defining and executing growth strategies through mergers, acquisitions, and partnerships. His work spans a variety of care delivery platforms, including urgent care, primary care, laboratory operations, and specialty service lines. In addition to his M&A focus, Viral supports strategic and financial planning across the firm’s broader management consulting engagements.

Viral previously worked in Data Science for Kaufman Hall, where he standardized client outpatient data, CARES funding, and performance improvement in order to create accurate databases to pull benchmarks and financial measures. He also has experience working as a health advisor with Pack Health (a Quest Diagnostics Company) and in accounting for Omega Realty Group LLC and Fulfyld, an e-commerce supply chain company.  Viral holds a B.S. in Finance and Industrial Distribution from the University of Alabama at Birmingham, with a concentration in Medical Supply Sales and Healthcare Management.