Avalon HealthCare Solutions, which helps payers and providers use diagnostic tests cost-effectively, has raised an undisclosed amount of growth capital.
Price transparency, and not very transparent, firm Castlight is acquiring Jiff, a digital health benefits platform, for 27 million of its overvalued shares. Want a sign of what a desperate deal this is--Jiff shareholders are getting 20% of Castlight, a public company, while Jiff has $7 million in revenue to Castlight's still pathetic $102 million.
Specialty behavioral health pharmacy operator Genoa Healthcare has acquired Advanced Pharmacy Solutions, which is in the same business in a few southern states.
Clarify Health Solutions gathers $6 million in financing to provide analytics for hospitals, as far as I can tell. Despite the company's name, it is not clear to me what they actually will do or why it is any different that 1000 other analytics platforms.
In a somewhat complex maneuver, publicly health population health company ApolloMed and Network Medical Management, an IPA management company, are merging. The combined company will have revenues over $300 million and NMM shareholders will end up with over 80% of the merged entity.
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