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This week in healthcare: UnitedHealthcare earnings, Carbon Connects with Froedert Health, NPs get full practice authority in New York, Bright Health is exiting 6 markets after a dismal 2021, public health emergency gets extended, and DaVita gets acquitted.
If they aren’t already, providers are about to get killed by inflation. How do those dynamics affect healthcare provider organizations? How do healthcare services businesses stave off intense expense margin pressures while also increasing top-line revenue?
This week in healthcare: Breaking down the Intermountain merger with SCL Health, Optum continues its buying spree in purchasing Kelsey-Seybold, Hims & Hers partnership with Carbon Health, a 7 hospital health system merger in West Virginia, Aveanna’s bad Q4, CMS payment updates, Memorial Hermann’s urgent care JV with GoHealth, and lots of fundraising announcements.
Welcome to the Healthy Muse’s Q1 2022 Top Healthcare News Round-up, covering the latest healthcare news from the first quarter of 2022.
In March 2022, UnitedHealthcare’s Optum announced the acquisition of home health player LHC Group in a $6.4 billion deal. Let’s break it down.
Today, we’re diving in to the largest health systems in America based on their most recent financial disclosure. Below, I’ve put together the top 19 health systems by revenue based on Calendar Year 2021.
This week in healthcare: Optum buys Refresh Mental Health, Lux Capital steals my index, Oscar’s investor day, Henry Ford Health rebrands, Privia Health’s Q4 earnings, Hackensack and Englewood hospital merger called off, and more.
This week in healthcare: A huge value-based kidney care $2.4 billion merger, Komodo Health going public this summer, takeaways from MedPAC’s report, Q4 earnings, Google’s partnership with Meditech, is health tech following in fintech’s shoes? & more.
This week in healthcare: agilon announces a major partnership with MaineHealth, Cano Health might go private, Anthem rebrands to Elevance (wtf), hospital earnings round-up, and Q4 earnings roundups continue.
This week in healthcare: Encompass’ home health biz has suitors, a virtual first plan for Medicaid, State of the Union Highlights, more earnings from Bright, RadNet, Surgery Partners, Cigna expands its venture arm, Ro acquires a Dadi, and my fave HC reads.
This week in healthcare: Medicare Direct Contracting gets a rebrand to ACO REACH, Teladoc and LOTS of 2021 earnings releases, Humana shakes up its board, antitrust concerns for Lifespan and Care New England, UnitedHealthcare and Change Healthcare sued by DOJ, a healthcare REIT megamerger, and more.
This week in healthcare: the Direct contracting debacle gets controversial, the DOJ targets United/Change deal, Teladoc unveils a new chronic care program, VillageMD’s expansion, Q4 earnings releases, and more
This week in healthcare: the digital health consolidation tsunami begins with several suitors, Amazon Care expands nationwide, Doximity, Oscar, CVS, and more earnings, Tenet continues its outpatient expansion, telehealth expansion in Congress gets major progress, and more.
This week in healthcare: SOC Telemed goes private, Privia closes a major partnership with Surgery Partners, Humana starts its hospice sale process, hospital staffing issues, Athelas raises $132 million, and more.
This week in healthcare: Chamath takes Akili Labs public, ApolloMed’s Value-Based acquisition, HCA Q1 earnings, the great healthcare staffing squeeze, and more relief funding
This week in healthcare: Mark Cuban gets into Drugs, Encompass Spins off Home Health, Chamath’s latest SPAC is ProKidney, big funding rounds from digital health unicorns Transcarent and Lyra Health, and more.
This week in healthcare: HCA snags MD Now in Florida, $29 billion in digital health funding, Humana’s bad week, NFL and healthcare fraud, and more.
Healthcare in 2021 Review: Diving into the biggest healthcare stories across partnerships, M&A, policy, and strategy All of the health tech & services IPOs / SPACs and public digital health firms, along with our favorite healthcare reads from 2021
This week in healthcare: Cerner acquired by Oracle for $30bil, Centene’s CEO steps down, Teladoc partners with NLA, Amazon’s health division restructures, Select partners with pickle ball, Omicron ramps up, and more.
This week in healthcare: Amazon launches a new elder care subscription service called Alexa Together, an insur-tech comeback, CVS investor day and HealthHUB expansion, Medicare sequestration gets further delayed, vaccine mandates halted, surprise billing lawsuits, and more.
This week in healthcare: Pear Therapeutics and P3 Health Partners go public, Omicron, a major digital health selloff, CVS partners with Microsoft on digital health, and more
This week in healthcare: Athenahealth sells for $17 billion, a new Oncology SPAC, Tenet grows its outpatient footprint, GE and JnJ plan spin-offs, a rough week for Talkspace, Teladoc’s investor day, insur-tech sophomore slumps, and more.
This week in healthcare: Ambulnz, now known as DocGo (lame) goes public, big Q3 earnings week, Democrats’ drug pricing package, antiviral Covid treatments, and more.
This week in healthcare: New IPOs from Ensemble and BrightSpring Health, Rise of the virtual health plan with offerings from UnitedHealthcare, Aetna, Teladoc, and Cigna, Ro’s dramatic week, LifePoint and Kindred spin off ScionHealth, Biden backs down on drug pricing negotiation and supplemental benefits for Medicare, & more
This week in healthcare: CVS and Walgreens Super Health Clinics, 23andMe gets into telehealth, Oak Street acquires specialists, Q3 earnings, remote patient monitoring, & more
This week in healthcare: New IPOs from Ensemble and Cue Health, Walgreens pursues Evolent, athenaHealth going public again, payor market consolidation, right wing antivax fraud, payor consolidation, and more.
This week in healthcare: Intermountain is merging with SCL Health to create a $14b system, Teladoc loses its COO, a Centene takeover? Tia’s focus on women’s health, Aetna’s dead physician network, and more.
This week in healthcare: Vaccine mandates go national, drug pricing and direct Medicare negotiation, LHC Group’s big acquisition from HCA, staffing issues at hospitals, abortion controversy, and more.
This week in healthcare: Ginger merges with Headspace, Teladoc partners with Aetna, Definitive Healthcare files for IPO, Warby Parker’s direct listing, CareMax’s value based care agreement with Anthem, Carbon Health’s busy summer, and more.
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