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Jan 06 2020

Medicaid health plan Molina is acquiring NextLevel Health Partners, a Chicago-based Medicaid plan with around 50,000 members.  The purchase price was about $50 million.

https://molinahealthcare.gcs-web.com/news-releases/news-release-details/molina-acquire-nextlevel-health-partners
Dec 27 2019

CareFirst, a mid-Atlantic region Blues company, has acquired two Medicaid plans, Trusted Health Plan and University of Maryland Health Partners.

https://www.modernhealthcare.com/mergers-acquisitions/blues-insurer-carefirst-enter-medicaid-market-two-acquisitions
Dec 20 2019

LeanTaas fattens up with $40 million in new financing for its predictive analytics to help manage the use of health care resources.

https://medcitynews.com/2019/12/goldman-sachs-plows-40m-into-california-predictive-analytics-startup/?utm_campaign=MCN%20Daily%20Top%20Stories&utm_source=hs_email&utm_medium=email&utm_content=81089305&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-_CwisXK41QlIl_6EKEB8YHq3into8AgsPWv2STFKcNffbcYJcL8cJy7lP2kU6PSDdb9ldNoINH6VAOAUboQ0pRLyIxSJqAx-FEDMmqvkJ_ZRjL1Zc&_hsmi=81089305&rf=1
Dec 20 2019

Caresyntax (might want to change that name, a lot of people care about sin taxes), a vendor of software to reduce surgery complications, has raised about $46 million in new financing and used part of it to acquire, Syus, which offers analytic services to hospitals.

https://medcitynews.com/2019/12/or-software-company-raises-45-6m-and-makes-a-new-acquisition/?utm_campaign=MCN%20Daily%20Top%20Stories&utm_source=hs_email&utm_medium=email&utm_content=81089305&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-_CwisXK41QlIl_6EKEB8YHq3into8AgsPWv2STFKcNffbcYJcL8cJy7lP2kU6PSDdb9ldNoINH6VAOAUboQ0pRLyIxSJqAx-FEDMmqvkJ_ZRjL1Zc&_hsmi=81089305&rf=1
Dec 19 2019

NeuroFlow hits a nerve with investors, getting $7.5 million in financing for its platform that helps providers integrate mental health care and do remote mental health services.

https://medcitynews.com/2019/12/neuroflow-the-most-clinical-grade-out-of-sea-of-mental-health-solutions-lands-7-5m-investment/?utm_campaign=MCN%20Daily%20Top%20Stories&utm_source=hs_email&utm_medium=email&utm_content=81025361&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-9faPg_L5qeELd3CL_X5Zt3LpOQjYs05NlpG_Zy-2EumJreJFcFJj_GmU7zBOG0JYJJwcZY3bZGqZKrjZdpAAB54t9pOfvjWl4SbWcx4JGNsgH_UGM&_hsmi=81025361&rf=1
Dec 19 2019

Emilio Health has gathered a fresh $5 million in funding to develop a behavioral health home for children and families.

Projected growth in CO2 emissions driven by countries outside the OECD graph of energy-related carbon dioxide emissions by country or region, as explained in the article text Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, International Energy Outlook 2016 Note: OECD is the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.
Dec 18 2019

Insight Telepsychiatry and Regroup Telehealth are combining to supposedly create the largest telepsychiatric vendor in the US.

https://www.mobihealthnews.com/news/insight-telepsychiatry-regroup-telehealth-merge-create-us-largest-telepsychiatry-provider
Dec 18 2019

More BS.  A study in Health Services Research finds that giving patients a personal "navigator" and some money to buy wellness related services and items provides only a very modest boost to patient activation scores and self-reported quality of life (I would feel better if people gave me things too) but has absolutely no information on impact on any real health status, utilization or spending effect, suggesting that there isn't any.

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/1475-6773.13235
Dec 18 2019

Bright Health, a new health plan company focussed on narrow network products, secures an additional $635 million in financing, bringing its total to over a billion in capital.  Be interesting to see if they can ever generate a return on that.

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/bright-health-announces-635m-series-d-funding-led-by-nea-300975710.html
Dec 17 2019

Humana is buying hospice pharmacy and PBM operator Enclara for an undisclosed sum.

https://www.fiercehealthcare.com/payer/humana-announces-deal-to-purchase-hospice-pbm-enclara-healthcare?mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiTURFd05EVTJaVEl3TTJJeCIsInQiOiJxYU1rVjQxTXFrY2ZwN2s5Q3dqaGdGV3ZySFlKblNWY2ZcL3F4TWdGZlBtSkZoeVBFMXphV1lqaHphN1Z1bGNRK2JBYzdoVW5GdzFtTGtQcWJIcFRMSXhNeXpmYzVWMmlhWDZXRWIrS2VLUGYxcXVFMkVrTjVrR2x2bTgrNDNqdEoifQ%3D%3D&mrkid=635530
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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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