As seems to often be the case these days, at least until Elizabeth Warren is elected, a health care business is being sold by one private equity firm to another, this time it is EyeCare Partners, going for about $2.2 billion.
A study in Health Services Research finds that a hospital and a skilled nursing facility having a shared EHR for information exchange is not associated with reduced readmissions.
Two providers of health trauma registries are combining, as ESO, which also sells a variety of emergency medical services related software, is acquiring Clinical Data Management.
Zero Card gets something instead of nothing: $7 million in funding for some kind of a goofy card that lets employers let employees let providers get a bundled payment, or something like that, but it is definitely going to disrupt, or is it erupt, anyway, just read the press releases, I am sure you will be impressed.
A private equity firm has combined two firms specializing in delivering pharmacy services to patients served by community health centers--Long's Drugs and PharMedQuest Pharmacy Services.
And the big just keep getting bigger, as OptumRx, the UnitedHealth unit, is buying Diplomat, a specialty pharmacy and infusion vendor, for around $4 a share.
Mitchell/Genex, a vendor of managed care and other services for workers' compensation and other insurers, is acquiring CompAlliance, which performs case management for workers' compensation plans.
Trilliant is brilliant, getting a "major" but undisclosed investment from a PE firm to support its business of helping hospitals grow revenue.
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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.
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.