Telehealth firm 98point6 is hot, raising a feverish $50 million from delirious investors to support its text-based primary care business. Eventually the company will reach room temperature.
Citra Health Solutions, which offers software to assist risk-based providers, is acquiring DataWing Software, a vendor of eligibility and payment software for capitation processes.
Two at-risk Florida primary care practices are merging their businesses in a joint venture. Genuine Health, which provides management services to primary care groups, and PrimeHealth Physicians are merging their patient pools, which will number over 12,000 Medicare members.
Mingle Analytics, which helps with Medicare performance metrics, and SilverVue, which offers services to assist providers with value-based payments, are merging.
Two large providers of non-emergency health care transportation services are combining, as LogistiCare and Circulation merge.
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Oct262018
Ok, we will be a little careful with this one. I knew ED was a hard problem, but Roman is raising a stiff (or maybe I should say smoking) $88 million to change its name to Ro and add smoking cessation services to its offerings. Not sure what ED and smoking have in common, but no more after-sex cigarettes for their ED customers.
A private equity firm is buying Simplyr for around $550 million. The firm provides credentialing, provider management and other software to health care payers and health systems.
A private equity firm is buying behavioral health firm Pathways Health from Molina Healthcare, as the medicaid managed care company continues to remake its business.
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