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May 03 2019

Troy Medicare gathers in $5 million for its attempt to start a new Medicare Advantage that will focus on pharmacists as providers.

https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20190501005169/en/
May 03 2019

CirrusMD's future gets less cloudy, as it gets a lofty $15 million in additional capital to support its pie-in-the-sky digital health "chat-first" business for veterans.  Less talk, more results.

https://www.cirrusmd.com/newsroom/series-b-funding
May 03 2019

3M is taking a somewhat surprising and very large dip into the medical device business, buying wound care company Acelity for $6.7 billion.

https://pitchbook.com/news/articles/3m-inks-its-largest-purchase-to-date-with-67b-deal-for-ipo-bound-acelity
May 01 2019

CPSI, which provides EHR and revenue management systems for smaller hospitals, is acquiring Get Real Health, which offers care management and patient engagement solutions, for $11 million.

https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20190424005300/en/CPSI-Acquire-Real-Health-Expand-Patient-Engagement
May 01 2019

Low-income Americans tend to have a syndrome of bad health behaviors, including poor nutrition.  A study using fruit and vegetable only vouchers did not improve use of those supposedly healthy foods, proving once again what should be obvious, to change behavior you probably have to use sticks as well as carrots.

https://www.healthaffairs.org/doi/abs/10.1377/hlthaff.2018.05405
Apr 29 2019

Savonix Health, which offers brain health assessment tools, smartly picks up a fresh $9.6 million in financing.

https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20190425005360/en/
Apr 29 2019

Meru Health, a tele-mental health firm, has raised $4.2 million more in capital.

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/meru-health-raises-4-2m-in-funding-and-publishes-strong-clinical-outcomes-300838292.html
Apr 25 2019

2020 Medicare Hospital Reimbursement Proposed Rule

https://s3.amazonaws.com/public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2019-08330.pdf
Apr 25 2019

2019 Annual Medicare Trustees Report

https://www.cms.gov/Research-Statistics-Data-and-Systems/Statistics-Trends-and-Reports/ReportsTrustFunds/Downloads/TR2019.pdf
Apr 25 2019

Home dialysis provider Simergent gets a $2.8 million round of capital.

https://www.simergent.com/blog/2019/4/18/simergent-closes-2835m-seed-round
Apr 22 2019

Telehealth firm Zipnosis, which offers virtual visit software to providers, has raised a fresh $3 million in financing.

https://www.zipnosis.com/news/in-the-news/virtual-care-company-financing-to-expand/
Apr 19 2019

Everlywell harmonizes a cool $50 million in new funding for its at-home lab testing service.

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/everlywell-raises-50-million-in-funding-to-accelerate-digitally-enabled-consumer-lab-testing-platform-300832314.html
Apr 19 2019

As is often the  case these days, Comprehensive Pharmacy Services, which offers technology and pharmacist support to hospitals, is being sold from one private equity firm to another one.

https://www.pehub.com/buyouts/nexphase-makes-5x-its-money-on-comprehensive-pharmacy-services/
Apr 19 2019

Aidoc, a vendor of artificial intelligence tools to support radiologists, smartly raises a genuine $27 million in new capital.

https://www.pehub.com/2019/04/israeli-ai-for-radiology-startup-aidoc-raises-27-million-reuters/
Apr 18 2019

AllyAlign lines up friends for a $10 million capital infusion for its MA special needs plan business.

https://www.pehub.com/2019/04/allyalign-health-reels-in-10-mln/
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Kevin RocheThe 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.

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