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May 22 2017

EvidenceCare, which gives evidence-based medicine advice to doctors, is seeking, but has not yet raised, $5 million in new funding.

https://evidence.care
May 22 2017

Surgery Partners is acquiring National Surgical Partners for $760 million, resulting in a combined 125 surgical centers.

https://www.pehub.com/2017/05/3452176/
May 22 2017

Express Scripts is buying myMatrixx, a workers' comp PBM.

http://www.mymatrixx.com/mm_news/express-scripts-mymatrixx-combine-offer-best-class-pharmacy-services-workers-compensation-programs/
May 22 2017

HealthReveal pulls back the curtain on an $11.3 million financing round.  The company, yawn, has an analytics platform which does supposed real-time identification of at-risk patients.

http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20170512005061/en/HealthReveal-Tops-Series-Funding-Northwell-Ventures
May 22 2017

Large for-profit hospital vendor Steward Health Care gets larger, agreeing to acquire IASIS Healthcare's 18 hospitals.

http://www.beckershospitalreview.com/hospital-transactions-and-valuation/steward-health-care-to-acquire-iasis-healthcare.html
May 22 2017

LogicStream, a vendor of clinical process improvement solutions, garnered additional funds in a new financing round.

https://www.pehub.com/2017/05/logicstream-health-nets-series-b-funds/
May 10 2017

A large PE firm is buying employee health and other benefits brokerage OneDigital Health and Benefits.

https://www.pehub.com/2017/05/new-mountain-buys/
May 09 2017

Employer health data analytics firm Artemis Health has raised $8.3 million in capital.

https://www.pehub.com/2017/05/artremis-health-raises-8-3-mln/
May 09 2017

Medical Solutions, a health care staffing firm, is being sold from one private equity firm to another for around $500 million.

https://www.pehub.com/2017/05/tpg-growth-to-acquire-medical-staffing-firm-medical-solutions-reuters/
May 08 2017

PreparedHealth gets ready for the big time with $4 million in financing for its software that connects family and community caregivers.

https://www.pehub.com/2017/05/preparedhealth-lands-4-mln-seed/
May 08 2017

Twine Health entangles itself with more investors, stringing them along to get $1.5 million in new capital.  We don't have enough health coaching vendors so that is what Twine's business is.

http://medcitynews.com/2017/05/twine-health-raising-1-5m/?utm_source=hs_email&utm_medium=email&utm_content=51576445&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-9qpN-tZ8uAuHXgIHIx3cgWUz_gvv92qjkzVl5Lt8bhQ3KwYkLTOHTWixtcHr8e5Rx2vzaJc6K1d12RwwHMneMYnV4cx1iJyd6XJ3RuvGaosiW9G6g&_hsmi=51576445&rf=1
May 05 2017

States that had more ads promoting getting health insurance under the ACA saw greater declines in their uninsured population, says a study in Health Affairs.

http://content.healthaffairs.org/content/36/4/747.abstract
May 04 2017

Radiology Partners gets a whopping $200 million in new capital to grow its on-site radiology business.

http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20170503005186/en/Radiology-Partners-Receives-200-Million-Investment
May 04 2017

EverlyWell gets a lasting commitment of $5 million in fresh financing for its business of providing at-home lab test kits, which lead to "beautifully redesigned results".  Not my words, the company's, who writes these things anyway, the figurative one million monkeys banging away on a keyboard.

http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20170503005023/en/EverlyWell-Raises-Additional-Capital-Bringing-Total-5
May 04 2017

Use of imaging has declined in the last 7 years, due to government and private payer efforts to rein in excessive use, according to a study in Health Affairs.

http://content.healthaffairs.org/content/36/4/663.abstract
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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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