This week in healthcare: Honor acquires Home Instead to create huge home health player, vaccine mandates gain traction, DOJ challenges Change Healthcare acquisition, the new $1 trillion budget for healthcare, and more.
This week in healthcare: Teladoc partners with Microsoft, Amazon unveils AWS for Health, a $26 billion opioid crisis settlement, hospital monopolies, everything about the Delta variant, Akumin acquires Alliance, ATI Physical Therapy’s rough quarter, SNF at home pilots, increased price transparency fines, and more.
Welcome to the Healthy Muse’s Healthcare Quarterly Review. This special edition summarizes every single major healthcare story covered during Q2 2021 in our weekly newsletter and should get you ready for the healthcare stories coming in the third quarter.
This week in healthcare: the Oncology Institute SPAC, Dollar General’s foray into healthcare, Florida medical group fire sales, VillageMD’s expansion plans, Walmart’s new low-priced insulin, Amedisys’ hospital-at-home acquisition of Contessa, and a host of policy updates.
LifePoint acquires Kindred’s post-acute facilities, Pear Therapeutics set to SPAC at $1.6 billion valuation, Warby Parker goes public, Biden’s slimmed down infrastructure plan, Amazon’s digital health incubator, and everything you wished you knew about FHIR.
The ACA stays undefeated, a major digital health dialysis partnership between Strive Health and Outset Medical, Beaumont Health tries to merge again, Steward buys hospitals from Tenet, what’s next for health policy, and more!
Amazon scales its telehealth presence, Big healthcare data analytics M&A, a new mental health PE platform, all about Cityblock Health, Definitive Healthcare’s IPO, perspectives on recent transactions, and more.
A big week for healthcare news. A slew of public digital health announcements including Babylon, Doximity, and LifeStance Health, HCA and Google’s big data partnership, Cerner buyout rumors, One Medical buys Iora Health, Medline gets taken private for $30 billion, the first Alzheimer’s drug in 20 years, and much more.
This week in healthcare: Bright Health’s S-1, Haven 2.0, Ro makes a play into women’s health, CommonSpirit calls off its hospital merger, Clover’s rough quarter, an AI app for skin conditions, healthcare faxes forever, and more.
This week in healthcare: the rapid rise of Hospital-at-home programs, Amazon vs. GoodRx, Cedar buys Ooda Health, big telehealth declines, million dollar vaccines, no more masks, Piedmont’s hospital acquisitions in Georgia, platform disruption, and more.
This week in healthcare: Walmart moves into telehealth with MeMD acquisition, independent physicians are in the minority, major home health tailwinds, Q1 earnings roll on, Pfizer’s FDA approval for teens, ramping ACA sign-ups, and more.
This week in healthcare: Humana buys the rest of Kindred at Home, the home care land grab continues with lots of deals in the space, price transparency gets canceled, getting closer to a vaccination tipping point, Q1 earnings season rolls on, HCA sells four hospitals, insurers benefit from ACA special enrollment, Biden’s trillions, and more.
This week in healthcare: Accolade joins the digital health conglomerates with its purchase of PlushCare, health funding hits an all-time high, what’s next for the Biden Admin in healthcare policy, M&A in Q1, and more.
This week in healthcare: IPOs from Bright Health, Privia, & Walgreens-backed VillageMD, Microsoft’s $20 billion healthcare cloud play, Google’s newest EHR, United vs. Anesthesiologists, vaccinations ramp, hesitancy shrinks, re-upping Medicaid in red states, Encompass CEO steps down, a new UnitedHealth CEO, Verizon and telehealth, and more.
Welcome to the Healthy Muse’s Healthcare Quarterly Review. This special edition summarizes every single major healthcare story covered during Q1 2021 in our weekly newsletter and should get you ready for the healthcare stories coming in Q2.
This week in healthcare: MA payor Alignment goes public, DOJ to review Unitedhealthcare’s $13 billion acquisition of Change Healthcare, Uber Health expands its prescription delivery service, 200 million vaccinations in 100 days, AstraZeneca’s bad data, and more.
Another big (private) digital health merger between Grand Rounds and Doctor on Demand, Ro raises $500 million (!!!), the Amazon effect on telehealth firms, vaccinations are trending up, cases are stabilizing, 1 in 6 Americans are vaccinated, MA player Agilon Health is going public, a request for antitrust review of Change Healthcare’s acquisition, and more lit healthcare news.
This week in healthcare: one year into Covid, Ambulnz going public, bad press for nursing homes, vaccinations go exponential, cases stable, lots of policy, hospital consolidation is good? and some more interesting top reads.
This week in healthcare: Amazon Care expands to 17+ states, Amazon makes a home care alliance, more IPOs including InnovAge and Alignment, permanent telehealth reimbursement, Clover earnings, a scuffle between MedPAC and AHIP, declining deaths, and more.
This week in healthcare – United’s Optum reportedly acquires Landmark Health for $3.5 billion, Cigna snatches up telehealth provider MDLive for $1 billion, HCA makes a play for post-acute assets, coronavirus vaccinations skyrocket while cases level off, J&J vaccine gets approved, Teladoc’s disappointing Q4, new HHS head Becerra testifies, learning about value-based care, and more.
Walmart shifts its health clinic strategy into tortoise mode, ATI Physical Therapy goes public via $2.5 billion SPAC, coronavirus cases are plummeting, Community Health Systems is profitable, utilization trends in hospitals, and new drug pricing policies and a public option included in Congress’ budget?
this week in healthcare: 14 health systems make a bet on big data, More SPAC info for Sharecare, Sema4, and Uphealth, healthcare is officially one word, 7 new Covid variants, everyone vaccinated by July, interesting post-acute trends, managed care earnings, declining hospital operating margins, New York’s hidden coronavirus data, and more.
This week in healthcare: the Oscar Health IPO edition. Clover’s Short Selling Scandal, 23andMe’s sketchy SPAC presentation, JnJ’s vaccine, interesting home care trends, insurance earnings trended downward after a pickup in healthcare activity in Q4, and more.
healthy muse healthcare news. Hello and welcome back to another edition of the Healthy Muse! Happy February 2021 – the first month in 200 years
healthy muse healthcare news. Hims & Hers debuts on the public markets, home care provider Signify Health files for IPO, a slew of Biden healthcare
Talkspace is going public via SPAC in a $1.4 billion deal, another SPAC is raising $1 billion to target health-tech companies, 14.7 million doses administered in the U.S., a bad batch of Moderna vaccines in California, 400k lives lost, and catching up on Biden’s health policies headed into inauguration.
A comprehensive summary of healthcare in 2020. Every major business, strategy, policy, and M&A from the year and what to expect in 2021.
An end to surprise medical bills, vaccines administered nationwide, Moderna gets the green light, a new Covid strand in the UK, Oscar Health preps for IPO, Amazon Care offers itself to other big businesses, and more
Vaccine rollouts begin nationwide, major M&A news for Tenet and Encompass, a surprising deal on Surprise Bills, and the 100 most influential people in healthcare.
A policy-packed edition this week in healthcare. Biden’s pick for HHS is California AG Xavier Becerra, Sanford calls off its $15b merger with Intermountain, CMS makes major policy shake-ups to evaluation & management payments and eliminating the inpatient only list, 100 million vaccinated by February, Kodak did no wrong, and digital health passports.
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