PE-backed TCGRx, which offers pharmacies an automated packaging system, implements a prescription for growth, buying Parata Systems, which has a similar product line.
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.
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.
Premier, the large GPO and consulting firm for health systems, is acquiring Stanson Health, which offers clinical decision support software, for $51 million.
Citra Health Solutions, which offers software to assist risk-based providers, is acquiring DataWing Software, a vendor of eligibility and payment software for capitation processes.
Two at-risk Florida primary care practices are merging their businesses in a joint venture. Genuine Health, which provides management services to primary care groups, and PrimeHealth Physicians are merging their patient pools, which will number over 12,000 Medicare members.
Mingle Analytics, which helps with Medicare performance metrics, and SilverVue, which offers services to assist providers with value-based payments, are merging.
Two large providers of non-emergency health care transportation services are combining, as LogistiCare and Circulation merge.
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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.
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