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Jun 02 2017

Bright Health looks brilliant, raising an additional $160 million in capital to support a push into Medicare Advantage markets.  Not so sure about the investors' brightness.

http://medcitynews.com/2017/06/quest-fix-broken-member-experience-insurance-bright-health-raises-fresh-capital/?utm_source=hs_email&utm_medium=email&utm_content=52658180&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-8vO-_YdnTyHDtxjtv0zyJpq-v02KLoaY61ReFhhduqegHql-Gf6jyALC8S8O7834ES-JjR-Qmu0Ge1vrdbu6wsU_de2JSSGwXs7_B6rsugphPyck8&_hsmi=52658180
May 31 2017

A study in JAMA reveals that use of an oncology bundled payment method in Taiwan resulted in slightly lower spending and slightly better quality performance.

http://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/2627949
May 31 2017

Health IT vendor Mediware is buying Kinnser Software which offers systems for home health and hospice providers.

https://www.pehub.com/2017/05/pe-backed-mediware-acquires-kinnser-software/
May 26 2017

Medrio, a maker of software to support clinical trials, has pulled in $30 million in new funding.

http://www.crossroadstoday.com/story/35503893/medrio-inc-announces-30-million-equity-investment-from-questa-capital
May 26 2017

Artificial intelligence for patient experience vendor NarrativeDx garners a new round of funding.

https://www.healthxventures.com/news/2017/5/11/narrativedx-builds-leading-ai-platform-for-patient-experience-secures-series-a-funding-for-continued-growth
May 25 2017

Health care cost containment vendor Advanced Medical Pricing Solutions has been recapped by a PE firm.

http://www.fiercebiotech.com/cro/inc-research-and-inventiv-health-merge-another-major-cro-deal?utm_medium=nl&utm_source=internal&mrkid=635530&mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiWlRSa1ltVmhORFF4TmpNeiIsInQiOiJJUkZYWU9cL1wvSmRNeW54V0dGOURlTE11RFFDYWo4bkgwcml0UyswZm1MVGVyN1wvSVVYUkg0cTdtMWtiT2dnUWZmcXF0V2dDSFRoR1BTOE1HU2E4YTc0dkx2b0tPZythT3ZYaFlyS3FER01DdUoxZ1wvTUVhNkVzbkh5Q01kaitNVVYifQ%3D%3D
May 25 2017

Vericred gets $5.5 million in new capital to expand its centralized health insurance data platform.

http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/vericred-closes-55-million-series-a-round-led-by-fca-venture-partners-300461105.html
May 25 2017

Specialist physician EHR vendor Modernizing Medicine gets an up-to-date financing round of $230 million.  Wow is all you can say.

http://www.mobihealthnews.com/content/specialty-ehr-vendor-modernizing-medicine-raises-231m-warburg-pincus
May 25 2017

Capsule garners $20 million in new capital.  The company gets prescriptions from doctors via a mobile app and delivers prescriptions to the patient's home.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/capsule-corrals-20-million-for-new-pharmacy-model-1494415800
May 24 2017

Upfront Healthcare Services, which offers software to maximize patient visits, lands $6 million in financing.

https://www.pehub.com/2017/05/upfront-healthcare-services-lands-6-mln-series-a/
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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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