Medical Cost Management Solutions, a provider of population health services, primarily to collectively bargained plans, has acquired Med-care Management, a Florida care management company.
HealthStream, which provides educational content for health care professionals, is paying around $15 million for Health Care Compliance Strategies, which offers online compliance training.
Fairpay Solutions, which helps with pricing of workers' compensation claims, has been sold by the PE firm which owned it to Mitchell International, which is owned by another PE firm.
Greenway Medical Technologies, a large EHR vendor, is acquiring PeopleLYNK, which provides services to help providers keep patients engaged and retained.
Gould & Lamb, which provides Medicare secondary payer services to workers' comp plans, has been sold by Abry Partners to ExamWorks, a publicly traded company which offers medical exams and other services to the disability, workers' comp and other markets. Examworks also announced the acquisition of several smaller providers of exam services.
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Feb062014
Private equity firm Thoma Bravo is buying Global Healthcare Exchange, a company that helps hospitals reduce their medical and surgical supply costs.
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