In a huge announcement with gigantic implications, enormous(ly little) digital health company Big Health, which has a sleep app called Sleepio (I am getting very sleepy, very sleepy), has raised a titanic $12 million in new capital from mammoth investors. oooohhhhh, just what we need, another digital health company.
CMS' hospital stars program is already drawing fire for the same issues as the readmission penalty initiative has--disproportionate punishment of hospitals serving sicker, poorer patients.
According to reinsurer Sun Life the most costly conditions from a stop-loss insurance perspective are cancer generally, leukemia, ESRD, congenital anomalies and early births, transplants and congestive heart failure.
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