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Glooko, which offers a mobile diabetes management tool, has raised $7 million.
http://www.prweb.com/releases/2014/01/prweb11470422.htm
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/
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
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
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/
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
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
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/
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
Lumiata, a startup aimed at collecting health data for provider use in predicting health issues and treatments has raised $4 million from Khosla Ventures.
http://medcitynews.us5.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=ba61994f8a7da5ab4c4bc02bf&id=e205bc2765&e=053c6947d0
Zephyr Health, which provides "big data" collection and analytics for life sciences companies has raised $15 million to continue growing its business.
http://www.finsmes.com/2014/01/zephyr-health-raises-15m-funding.html
Wellpoint is selling its 1-800-Contacts unit to a private equity firm and apparently taking a hefty loss on the transaction.
http://www.businessweek.com/news/2014-01-07/wellpoint-to-sell-1-800-contacts-site-to-thomas-h-dot-lee-partners
Kaiser is selling its Archimedes health economics modeling and software division to Evidera, which is owned by Symphony Technology group.
http://www.modernhealthcare.com/article/20140108/NEWS/301089956?AllowView=VDl3UXk1TzRDdnlCbkJiYkY0M3hlMEtwaDBVZEQrQT0=&utm_source=link-20140108-NEWS-301089956&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=hits&utm_name=top
MedPAC Fact Book on Dual Eligibles
https://a7d050c2-a-10078ef1-s-sites.googlegroups.com/a/macpac.gov/macpac/publications/Duals_DataBook_2013-12.pdf?attachauth=ANoY7cqXKnTKnMoO1LMbUcJwnRCboSVMIN0Aia1jXRCf2XBKztKx-67zZ0O-OXhwEbYrQc_U4ij26iiqRuQ-Cq1qOyK1WWDWKm2vthI24Q_aw6dBlIHVP-gyujPcnu7WcsFrbMdYmX2XOZFqw2r6aa3uKqAHvhm-Cj-kZhZxtPdlpx4aL7HyZGDKJAwqwPsGrRT1uB-7EZSez3PkxA1DAq1i3Od9pMHv_2pPMcY9ag2qOM97PMEyoig%3D&attredirects=1
According to the American Hospital Association, hospitals provided $45.9 billion in uncompensated care in 2012, up from about $41.1 billion in 2011.
http://www.ahanews.com/ahanews/jsp/display.jsp?dcrpath=AHANEWS/AHANewsNowArticle/data/ann_010214_uncompensated&domain=AHANEWS
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.