HealthiPass didn't get a pass from investors, garnering $7.2 million for yet another business that helps providers collect from patients at the point-of-service or thereafter.
A study in the journal Health Services Research finds that drug-eluting stents were taken up by cardiologists faster in markets in which there was greater competition among cardiologists, but hospital market structure appeared to have little impact on diffusion rates.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27196678
Dec072017
Matrix Medical Network, which largely provides in-home risk assessment for the MA market, has acquired LP Health Services which offers post-acute assessments.
Large Chicago area health system Advocate is merging with Milwaukee-based Aurora Health, in another deal that should be rejected on competitive grounds.
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