agilon health's S-1; a lot of employer innovation news (Grand Rounds / Doctor on Demand, Transcarent, and Amazon); and other stuff
Some big funding rounds this week: Forward, Cedar, Health Recovery Solutions, 100Plus; a look at Optum's provider acquisition strategy; and a couple reads on maternity care
Lots of public markets activity between Alignment's S-1, Anthem's investor day, Clover earnings, and Oscar and InnovAge's IPOs; Rock Health's digital health adoption report; & more!
Two interesting acquisitions this week - Optum / Landmark and Cigna / MDLive; Oscar's roadshow; a look at Comcast's position in healthcare & more
Lots of really good opinion pieces this week on Walmart's strategy, a "headless EMR", the state of value based care, and costs / transparency / navigation; oh and also another SPAC!
A couple more SPACs (ShareCare and Sema4), lots of funding rounds (ZocDoc, RapidSOS, Modern Health, Alma, Sitka & more), confusion around the Geographic Direct Contracting model & more
This is a long one: Oscar's S-1; SPAC news (Clover, 23andMe, Talkspace); lots of VC funding rounds; another insane read on hospital billing, and lots more!!
Lots of funding rounds: Equality Health, Sidecar, Lyra, Dario & more; a handful of acquisitions: Doc.ai, Discovery Health Partners, Docent Health, & Upright Health; and lots more!
Signify Health files an IPO, K Health and Aledade raise $100m+ rounds, UHG earnings, an early look at 2021 Medicare Advantage enrollment numbers, & more
Talkspace gets its SPAC, Optum is acquiring Atrius Health, Accolade acquired 2nd.MD, a reflection on CMMIs first decade, & more!
A heartbreaking read on how the healthcare system failed JaMarcus Crews, plus a whole bunch of big business news: Optum acquired Change, Centene acquired Magellan, Haven shuts down, & more
A relatively quiet holiday week - Tenet is shifting its focus away from hospitals, CMMI Director defends Geographic Direct Contracting, and more