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Oct 11 2021

Alpha Med comes letters in getting money from investors, raising a new $24 million financing round for some amorphous business related to women' telehealth.

https://techcrunch.com/2021/09/21/alpha-medical-closes-24m-series-b-round-to-expand-womens-telehealth-without-the-video-calls/
Oct 11 2021

Investors may need some recovery services after investing an additional $33 million in the firm which purports to manage musculoskeletal conditions.

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/recoveryone-closes-33-million-series-c-financing-301376065.html
Oct 11 2021

Spring Health, which offers "family" mental health benefits for employer health plans, raises another $190 million in capital.

https://www.fiercehealthcare.com/digital-health/spring-health-snags-190m-to-expand-family-mental-health-services-for-global
Oct 11 2021

The telehealth investment craziness continues as well, with eVisit, a provider of software to help health systems offer telemedicine, raises $45 million in new funding.

https://medcitynews.com/2021/09/telehealth-platform-provider-evisit-raises-45m/
Oct 11 2021

We will see how devoted to investors Medicare Advantage plan company Devoted Health will be.  The valuation insanity continues as this company going into an incredibly competitive market, against people like UnitedHealth and Humana, raises $1.2 billion in new capital at an $11 billion valuation.  Literally crazy.

https://www.axios.com/devoted-health-value-11-billion-new-round-967c5795-4239-4cb7-88d5-f3b66f8d42eb.html
Sep 17 2021

I simply couldn't be more astounded at some financing round valuations.  Here is another one, in which behavioral health firm Spring Health raised $190 million, supposedly at a $2 billion valuation.

https://medcitynews.com/2021/09/behavioral-health-startup-spring-health-valued-at-2b/?utm_campaign=MCN%20Daily%20Top%20Stories&utm_medium=email&_hsmi=160529127&_hsenc=p2ANqtz--qvn4HE1mI0__QP-iqO_uNc85cpqa5718XEu36h7TQb4g5m0-QVHF7mbbHIwuUs6Kc6KA_eVbpJqNgZrIZg8e-icMscXNnZQrzo4hTw4LEki7O-ZI&utm_content=160529127&utm_source=hs_email
Sep 17 2021

We are seeing a wave of acquisitions among health care companies hoping to show that they actually have a business that justifies high valuations.  Symplr provides software to help health care companies with certain administrative tasks and is acquiring Halo Health, which offers clinical communication and collaboration software. No price disclosed but you can bet it was extremely high.

https://www.symplr.com/press-releases/symplr-acquires-halo-health
Sep 13 2021

More insanity on health care valuations.  City Block builds primary care clinics in urban areas.  It just raised $400 million in new capital, with a valuation of almost $6 billion, in what is now a very competitive market among well-financed companies.

https://www.fiercehealthcare.com/practices/cityblock-health-raises-another-mega-round-cash-banking-a-reported-400m?mkt_tok=Mjk0LU1RRi0wNTYAAAF_aiwWMZ3PLoddIVpGXhcmT8kLYSg0Ttj5GWNouiYckQK7PJ65lJ6dULY0Qh9fZuitu56W584Ftz0WN_wtfpTVnQMGJ5-txjguPFQ7izZvyymZg5U&mrkid=635530
Sep 08 2021

Milliman is a large, respected health care actuarial firm.  They are acquiring SkySail Rx, which will add greater pharmacy data and analytics capability.

https://www.milliman.com/-/media/milliman/pdfs/press-releases/2021/9-7-21-press-release-skysail.ashx
Sep 08 2021

The health care M & A madness continues with genetic testing company Ivitae buying Citizens Health, which organizes medical records, for an astounding $325 million.  This supposedly will allow for better integration of genetic information.

https://medcitynews.com/2021/09/invitae-to-buy-health-records-startup-ciitizen-for-325m/?utm_campaign=MCN%20Daily%20Top%20Stories&utm_medium=email&_hsmi=157210973&_hsenc=p2ANqtz--Rq9NAau-wAPVqKWCdYWVaZw-O7IpctSBM8ytXBmAg4zzTAlMczRpr6HVSO6Amh8FBnT5Gm8A7CyoQduYyC4Zd-vvDkT0OqhPiRnsiIP-YOrpJQTk&utm_content=157210973&utm_source=hs_email
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Kevin RocheThe Healthy Skeptic is a website about the health care system, and is written by Kevin Roche, who has many years of experience working in the health industry. Mr. Roche is available to assist health care companies through consulting arrangements through Roche Consulting, LLC and may be reached at khroche@healthy-skeptic.com.

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