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Mar 30 2015

Surgery Partners, an operator of ambulatory surgery centers, is planning for an IPO that might value the company at as much as $2 billion.

https://www.pehub.com/2015/03/surgery-partners-preparing-for-summer-ipo-hires-banks-reuters/
Mar 30 2015

Fred's, which operates a large chain of discount stores, is acquiring specialty pharmacy firm EntrustRx for about $66 billion, no discount there.

http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20150325005804/en/Freds-Acquire-EntrustRx-Specialty-Pharmacy#.VRl0tktFoVQ
Mar 30 2015

UnitedHealth Group is purchasing Catamaran, the pharmacy benefit management firm, for an astounding $12.8 billion.

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/unitedhealth-bulks-prescription-drug-cost-152847037.html
Mar 27 2015

Constellation Healthcare Technologies, which provides physician revenue cycle management software, has bought Physicians Practice Plus for up to $20 million.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/03/17/idUSASN0006ZM20150317
Mar 27 2015

Fagron has sold its Corilus division, which provides software in Europe to help providers manage their practices, to AAC Capital.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/03/16/idUSnHUG1ZlcRP+1d3+ONE20150316
Mar 27 2015

Procura, which offers cloud-based post-acute care software, has procured Indura Software, which sells home health care applications.

http://www.prweb.com/releases/2015/03/prweb12578025.htm
Mar 27 2015

In an announcement made to an audience pregnant with expectation, Clue has raised $680,000 for its fertility application.  I guess the investors weren't clueless.

http://mobihealthnews.com/30043/fertility-tracking-app-clue-raises-680k-to-grow-team-build-hardware/
Mar 27 2015

Healthentic has raised $3.75 million to aid in sales of their software to help employers indentify health savings opportunities.

http://www.geekwire.com/2015/healthentic-raises-almost-4m-to-boost-healthcare-analytics/
Mar 27 2015

Canadian telecommunications firm is expanding its health software offerings by purchasing MedeSync, an EHR vendor.

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/telus-health-acquires-medesync-electronic-090000595.html
Mar 27 2015

Joyable has happily grabbed $2.1 million for its app to help reduce social anxiety.  No reason for investors to be worried about their returns.

https://www.pehub.com/2015/03/joyable-grabs-2-1-mln-seed/
Mar 27 2015

Investors have routed $7 million to PatientRoute Systems, which helps hospitals use predictive analytics to improve operations.

http://medcitynews.com/2015/03/serial-entrepreneur-raises-7m-double-size-predictive-analytics-business-improve-surgical-capacity-planning/?utm_source=MedCity+News+Subscribers&utm_campaign=fb517a4d35-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_c05cce483a-fb517a4d35-67648197
Mar 25 2015

97% of ER doctors say they order imaging and tests of dubious value in order to avoid potential lawsuits.  The study in Academic Emergency Medicine says such unnecessary tests adds $210 billion in annual health spending.

http://consumer.healthday.com/general-health-information-16/doctor-news-206/most-er-doctors-surveyed-ordered-unnecessary-tests-697688.html
Mar 25 2015

Despite good information availability, an NBER paper finds that consumers don't pay adequate attention to Part D plan features and pricing and this costs them each $536 and Medicare $550 million over three years.  You can lead a horse to water but you can't make them drink, or maybe the horse doesn't know how to find the water or maybe they aren't sure how to drink or maybe its too many drugs, or something like that.

http://www.nber.org/papers/w21028?utm_campaign=ntw&utm_medium=email&utm_source=ntw
Mar 24 2015

According to a study in the Journal of Health Economics, the extended dependent coverage provisions under the reform law added 2.5% to 2.8% to employer plan premiums, much of which was passed on to employees.

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0167629615000053
Mar 24 2015

Everyday Health, the consumer medical information website, is buying Cambridge BioMarketing, which helps drug companies with marketing for rare disease medications.

http://www.mmm-online.com/everyday-health-buys-rare-disease-agency-cambridge-biomarketing/article/404966/
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