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Nov 30 2018

Bright Health lights up investors with a smart additional $200 million in financing for its supposedly new and improved health plan business.

https://www.pehub.com/2018/11/insurance-company-bright-health-takes-in-200-mln-series-c/
Nov 28 2018

A private equity firm has provided $65 million in new funding for HNI Healthcare, which provides inpatient staffing, including physicians.

https://www.pehub.com/2018/11/crg-commits-65-mln-to-hni-healthcare/
Nov 19 2018

Sift Healthcare sorts out a $1 million round of capital for its revenue cycle analytics business.

https://www.prweb.com/releases/sift_healthcare_secures_1mm_investment/prweb15918225.htm
Nov 19 2018

Convey Health Solutions, Pareto Intelligence and HealthScape Advisors are merging creating a firm that will offer Medicare Advantage and other payers a wide-range of administrative and analytic services.  New name is Advisors Intelligence Solutions or Intelligence Solutions Advisors or something like that.

https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20181116005021/en/Convey-Health-Solutions-Combine-HealthScape-Advisors-Pareto
Nov 16 2018

XPress Wellness, which operates urgent care centers in the southwest, has received an additional round of financing.

https://www.pehub.com/2018/11/lcm-invests-in-xpress-wellness-urgent-care/
Nov 13 2018

Quick Med Claims, a provider of revenue cycle management software for the emergency medical services industry, raises a hasty, but undisclosed, amount of additional funding.

https://www.pehub.com/2018/11/pwp-growth-equity-backs-quick-med-claims/
Nov 12 2018

PatientPop bursts through with $25 million in new capital to support its business of helping providers attract new patients, including scheduling and related functions.

https://medcitynews.com/2018/11/patientpop-25m/?utm_campaign=MCN%20Daily%20Top%20Stories&utm_source=hs_email&utm_medium=email&utm_content=67416114&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-8yBKta18MGYKnvV_Nz5OMW9gBKLIGLxgz0UTSs7EQ878qZHU1MAjUvwxqKmDs1Jsu9C14UBwGtOOCmH6we-ferO27IMH4hc_Mpxj1JMMIxW8BbnH4&_hsmi=67416114
Nov 12 2018

Troubled practice management and EHR software vendor Athenahealth is being bought by a PE firm for the godly sum of $5.7 billion.

https://www.modernhealthcare.com/article/20181112/NEWS/181119999?utm_source=modernhealthcare&utm_medium=email&utm_content=20181112-NEWS-181119999&utm_campaign=mh-alert
Nov 09 2018

Direct Urgent Care, which operates seven urgent care centers in California, is merging with Carbon Health, which uses an app to link people with urgent and primary care resources.

https://www.intelycare.com/category/press-releases/
Nov 09 2018

Nurse staffing and scheduling firm IntelyCare adds $11 million in new funding.

https://www.intelycare.com/category/press-releases/
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