Back to the PE world, as EDG Partners is providing financing to allow newly-formed PWNHealth to buy a lab services authorization division from Medivo, which offers data analytics for clinical labs.
Xerox, which is not a PE firm, is acquiring a division of Inventiv Health, which is PE owned, called Patient Access Solutions, that helps pharmaceutical companies identify and engage patients.
Medical device manufacturer GreatBatch is buying Lake Regional Medical, which all does outsourcing work for medical device companies, for $1.7 billion.
The Wall Street Journal reports that regulators are granting most of the very large premium increases health plans requested for exchange policies; in another big win for health reform's promise to reduce premiums.
WebPT, a vendor of administrative software for the rehab providers, is acquiring Therabill, which offers practice management solutions in the same market.
A new study from the Commonwealth Fund finds that there is little real competition in many locales for Medicare Advantage plans, lending further support to criticism of further consolidation. The analysis suggests that almost all counties are highly concentrated by antitrust standards.
According to a study in Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise wearable exercise trackers may not be very accurate and show high levels of variability.
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The Healthy Skeptic is a website about the health care system, and is written by Kevin Roche, who has many years of experience working in the health industry. Mr. Roche is available to assist health care companies through consulting arrangements through Roche Consulting, LLC and may be reached at khroche@healthy-skeptic.com.