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Jan 14 2014

The Employee Benefits Research Institute issued a short brief detailing reasons for wellness program participation.  A survey found that the desire to improve health was the main reason for participating and that a belief that the person could make changes on their own or lack of time were the main reasons for not participating.  Cash incentives and premium discounts would motivate more participation.

http://www.ebri.org/pdf/FF.263.Wellness.9Jan14.pdf
Jan 14 2014

United Recovery Systems, which provides receivables management across several industries, has acquired Financial Health Strategies, which provides revenue cycle management services to hospitals and health systems.  United Recovery is backed by Audax Private Equity.

http://www.pehub.com/2014/01/pe-backed-united-recovery-systems-completes-fhs-acquisition/
Jan 14 2014

Pharos Capital has acquired Seaside Healthcare, a Louisiana-based regional provider of behavioral health care services.

http://www.pehub.com/2014/01/pharos-capital-acquires-seaside-healthcare/
Jan 14 2014

CareCore National, which began as an imaging benefits manager and has expanded to managing utilization and cost of other specialty care, has received a "significant" investment from Great Atlantic, a private equity firm, which probably means a majority recap transaction.

http://www.pehub.com/2014/01/carecore-national-partners-with-general-atlantic/
Jan 14 2014

RestorixHealth, a wound care clinic company, received an investment from Sverica International to fund its merger with Candescent Healing, which is in the same business.

http://www.prweb.com/releases/2014/01/prweb11465673.htm
Jan 14 2014

Humana has revealed that it expects its risk pool from exchange enrollments to have higher health costs than expected.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/01/10/us-humana-enrollment-idUSBREA0903420140110?feedType=RSS&feedName=healthNews
Jan 14 2014

Glooko, which offers a mobile diabetes management tool, has raised $7 million.

http://www.prweb.com/releases/2014/01/prweb11470422.htm
Jan 13 2014

HealthSparq, a health care price transparency company which is owned by health plan company Cambia, has acquired ClarusHealth, which offers provider search capabilities.

http://www.healthsparq.com/about-healthsparq/press-releases/healthsparq-acquires-clarushealth-to-become-a-market-leader-in-quickly-growing-healthcare-transparency-industry/
Jan 13 2014

According to a report from Transparency Research the market for home self-care devices, like glucose monitors, will reach $16.8 billion by 2019.

http://www.transparencymarketresearch.com/self-care-medical-devices.html
Jan 13 2014

WellDoc has received $20 million in funds to expand its Type 2 diabetes mobile offering, with Merck Ventures being one investor.

http://medcitynews.com/2014/01/merck-innovation-fund-invests-welldoc-part-20m-financing-round/?utm_source=MedCity+News+Subscribers&utm_campaign=65e74625b0-RSS_Daily+Top+Stories&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_c05cce483a-65e74625b0-67648197
Jan 13 2014

Q-Centrix, which offers data analytic services to hospital quality departments, is being acquired by private equity firm Sterling Partners.

http://www.pehub.com/2014/01/sterling-partners-buys-q-centrix/
Jan 11 2014

Warburg Pincus is investing $40 million in ComplexCare Solutions, which provides care management and other services for Medicare beneficiaries.

http://www.abc27.com/story/24405170/warburg-pincus-invests-40-million-in-complexcare-solutions-to-fund-growth
Jan 11 2014

Maryland, which already has an all-payer hospital rate-setting regime, has gotten permission from HHS and agreement from state hospitals to limit increases in hospital spending to no more than the rate of economic growth in the state.

http://www.kaiserhealthnews.org/Stories/2014/January/10/maryland-hospitals-radical-plan-limit-spending-change-payment.aspx?utm_campaign=KHN%253A%2520Daily%2520Health%2520Policy%2520Report&utm_source=hs_email&utm_medium=email&utm_content=11610717&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-9SEG6pdPW8qVK7FcqAlMvBEgSMwwLuarGWWBsuw6ag8NN2b4FQyth_m4OtBfUXa48rvR84femOmzMqRNCbwEEp26S7aQ&_hsmi=11610717
Jan 09 2014

MedHOK has received a mammoth $77.5 million investment from Bain Capital and others to continue growth of its care management platform.

http://www.pehub.com/2014/01/bain-capital-ventures-and-spectrum-equity-back-medhok/
Jan 08 2014

Omicia, which develops software to make sense of masses of genomic data, has raised $6.8 million.

http://medcitynews.com/2014/01/omicia-hopes-boil-genomic-big-data-useful-information-raises-6-8m/?utm_source=MedCity+News+Subscribers&utm_campaign=518d35689e-RSS_Daily+Top+Stories&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_c05cce483a-518d35689e-67648197
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