Walmart enters Medicare Advantage insurance market; Molina acquires another Medicaid plan; UHG acquires DivvyDose; PE-backed hospitals behaving badly; & more!
Some pretty incredible deep dives this week including CHQPR detailing rural hospital finances and a look into Sutter's antitrust case; Bright Health raises $500m; & more!
A RAND Corporation study on commercial health care prices; Oscar prepping for an IPO; Olive, MDLive & others raise funding; & more
A look under the hood at hospital finances; GRAIL files its S-1; a bunch of fundraising: Grand Rounds, Truepill, Ready, Sana, Decent, etc: a guide for providers implementing telehealth; & more
More on Teladoc / Livongo, Walmart + Oak Street partner, California is close to allowing NPs to practice on their own & more
"Welcome back from vacation Kevin now get back to work here are the AmWell & GoodRx S-1s to read " and some other stuff
The virtual primary care race is on as One Medical Now launches, Livongo again states its interest, & Eden raises $25 million for its virtual / physical model; a new CMS model for rural care; & more
The Teladoc / Livongo merger edition plus other things
Oscar's expansion; Ro raises a big round; a bunch of Q2 earnings reports; a read on dual eligibles; & more
HCA posts Q2 earnings, Hims potentially going public, health plans are graded by employers, digital pharmacies taking off, a Rock Health survey on diversity & more!
UHG posts a good quarter, Amazon partners with Crossover, a great read on women's health, lots more funding rounds, & more
Oak Street filed its S-1!!!!, Walgreens & VillageMD also enter into a massive deal, Livongo pre-announced a great Q2, Truepill makes some moves, a different look at hospital rankings, and more!