Jellyvision shakes it up, acquiring claims submission automation platform FlexMinder to add to its employee communication services. New company to be named JellyMinder.
GetWellNetwork, which offers providers a patient engagement system, is acquiring Seamless Medical, which has patient registration and scheduling software.
AssistRx, a vendor of software to facilitate use and management of specialty drugs, is acquiring Caret, which offers care management plans for various conditions.
Word & Brown is selling several of its health care businesses, including HealthCompare, Quotit and some brokerage business to National General Holdings, a multi-line insurer.
Hearst Health is adding to its growing list of health care companies by purchasing the Work-Loss Data Institute, which publishes disability treatment guidelines and related workers' compensation data and will merge it with MGC Health, which also provides care guidelines.
Price transparency, and not very transparent, firm Castlight is acquiring Jiff, a digital health benefits platform, for 27 million of its overvalued shares. Want a sign of what a desperate deal this is--Jiff shareholders are getting 20% of Castlight, a public company, while Jiff has $7 million in revenue to Castlight's still pathetic $102 million.
Specialty behavioral health pharmacy operator Genoa Healthcare has acquired Advanced Pharmacy Solutions, which is in the same business in a few southern states.
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