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Jan 10 2017

PeraHealth gathers $14 million in growth financing from a PE firm, enabling it to expand its analytics business that helps providers identify high-risk patients.

http://www.mainsailpartners.com/perahealth-secures-14-million-in-financing/
Jan 10 2017

Aledade, which organizes and offers accountable care organizations for Medicare and commercial patients and payers, attracts $20 million in new financing.

https://www.aledade.com/news/press-releases/aledade-raises-20-million-to-grow-value-based-care-network/
Jan 10 2017

Avalon HealthCare Solutions, which helps payers and providers use diagnostic tests cost-effectively, has raised an undisclosed amount of growth capital.

https://www.pehub.com/2017/01/avalon-healthcare-solutions-takes-in-funding/
Jan 09 2017

PE firm BelHealth has acquired Virginia-based home health firm Care Advantage.

https://www.pehub.com/2017/01/belhealth-acquires-care-advantage/
Jan 09 2017

UnitedHealth Group is buying Surgical Care Affiliates for $2.3 billion, adding surgicenters to its rapidly growing owned-provider footprint.

http://seekingalpha.com/news/3234045-unitedhealth-buys-surgical-care-affiliates-57-share-cash-stock-deal?uprof=45
Jan 06 2017

Healthx, which creates digital portals between plans and patients and providers, has nabbed an undisclosed amount of additional capital.

http://www.healthx.com/healthx-receives-strategic-growth-investment-from-jmi-equity/
Jan 06 2017

AccessOne, a vendor of patient cost-share management software, has accessed new capital, being majority recapped by a PE firm

http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20170105005379/en/Frontier-Capital-Announces-Investment-AccessOne
Jan 06 2017

Arcadia attracts $30 million in additional capital to support growth of its health analytics business aimed at provider organizations.

http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20170105005564/en/Arcadia-Healthcare-Solutions-Announces-30MM-Investment
Jan 06 2017

Genetic testing firm PatientsLikeMe, gets $100 million in new investment from a Chinese firm that likes it.

https://www.bostonglobe.com/business/2017/01/05/patientslikeme-gets-million-investment-from-chinese-entrepreneur/25mNWOMy53YuiSAW8kuDRM/story.html
Jan 05 2017

Price transparency, and not very transparent, firm Castlight is acquiring Jiff, a digital health benefits platform, for 27 million of its overvalued shares.  Want a sign of what a desperate deal this is--Jiff shareholders are getting 20% of Castlight, a public company, while Jiff has $7 million in revenue to Castlight's still pathetic $102 million.

http://www.modernhealthcare.com/article/20170105/NEWS/170109964?utm_source=modernhealthcare&utm_medium=email&utm_content=20170105-NEWS-170109964&utm_campaign=financedaily
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