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Oct 29 2018

HealthChannels is apparently buying Team Health's medical scribe business for around $160 million to add to its own similar business.

https://www.pehub.com/buyouts/vesey-streets-healthchannels-buys-medical-scribe-unit-from-blackstones-teamhealth/
Oct 29 2018

Mingle Analytics, which helps with Medicare performance metrics, and SilverVue, which offers services to assist providers with value-based payments, are merging.

https://medcitynews.com/2018/10/mingle-analytics-and-silvervue-merge-to-create-value-based-care-vendor-mingle-health/?utm_campaign=MCN%20Daily%20Top%20Stories&utm_source=hs_email&utm_medium=email&utm_content=67002257&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-9CLM8ZBeCSqiOIi1WiovYxTrGLIY3qxl0FuGWAaxcFd8up99ZM9XEYMJY7S2NH-lXPemm3eDlWeI3p32x0unC82_OnkEFgd3td5NAEKJO7AcP5rLY&_hsmi=67002257
Oct 26 2018

Revenue cycle management software vendor Waystar is acquiring Connance, which aids providers in determining patient ability to pay.

https://www.healthcarefinancenews.com/news/waystar-acquire-connance-expanding-its-revenue-cycle-and-predictive-analytics-technologies
Oct 26 2018

Two large providers of non-emergency health care transportation services are combining, as LogistiCare and Circulation merge.

http://www.logisticare.com/news/
Oct 26 2018

Ok, we will be a little careful with this one.  I knew ED was a hard problem, but Roman is raising a stiff (or maybe I should say smoking) $88 million to change its name to Ro and add smoking cessation services to its offerings.  Not sure what ED and smoking have in common, but no more after-sex cigarettes for their ED customers.

http://fortune.com/2018/09/18/erectile-dysfunction-roman-funding/
Oct 25 2018

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You will be pleased to know that Thirty Madison is rebuilding the health care experience for modern consumers and apparently is also fleecing modern investors, acquiring $15.25 million in new financing to create a platform to treat chronic conditions, although their primary product to date has been one that addresses baldness.  Hope investors don’t take a haircut.

Oct 25 2018

Aledade, which helps physician practices participate in ACOs, secured $23 million in fresh funding.

https://www.bizjournals.com/washington/news/2018/10/17/bethesda-health-tech-company-aledade-raises-23.html
Oct 25 2018

Carepoynt, which offers incentive programs for consumers to engage in healthy behaviors, raised another $5 million in capital.

https://www.mobihealthnews.com/content/following-julys-seed-round-health-rewards-platform-carepoynt-raises-another-5m
Oct 24 2018

A private equity firm is buying Simplyr for around $550 million.  The firm provides credentialing, provider management and other software to health care payers and health systems.

https://www.pehub.com/buyouts/clearlake-buys-healthcare-saas-company-symplr-for-about-550-mln/
Oct 23 2018

A private equity firm is buying behavioral health firm Pathways Health from Molina Healthcare, as the medicaid managed care company continues to remake its business.

https://www.pehub.com/2018/10/atar-buys-behavior-and-mental-health-services-provider-pathways/