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February 14, 2023

Weekly Health Tech Reads | 2/12

CVS & Oak Street dominate headlines, concerns about 2024 Advance Notice, Oscar's Q4 results, & more

February 14, 2023

Weekly Health Tech Reads | 2/5

A tide shift in the MA market, Humana & Cigna report earnings, & more

February 14, 2023

Community Update | 2/2

Where we keep track of things going on in the community because everyone has day jobs and it can be hard to keep up with all of the Slack messages.

February 14, 2023

Weekly Health Tech Reads | 1/29

Elevance makes an acquisition but loses a customer, CVS partners with Rush on ACO REACH, & more

February 14, 2023

Weekly Health Tech Reads | 1/22

Contesting the North Carolina state health plan RFP, Aledade becoming a PBC, McKinsey on profit pools, & more

February 14, 2023

Community Update | 1/20

Where we keep track of things going on in the community because everyone has day jobs and it can be hard to keep up with all of the Slack messages.

February 14, 2023

Weekly Health Tech Reads | 1/15

CVS invests in Carbon Health (and Oak Street rumors commence), JPMorgan presentations, & more!

February 14, 2023

Weekly Health Tech Reads | 1/8

Walgreens posts earnings and shares more on VillageMD / Summit, BCBS NC loses the state health plan business, & more

February 14, 2023

Community Update | 1/6

Where we keep track of things going on in the community because everyone has day jobs and it can be hard to keep up with all of the Slack messages.

December 23, 2022

2022 Wrapped: HTN's Year in Review

Our look back at the key news and trends of 2022

December 22, 2022

Weekly Health Tech Reads | 5/29

Babylon's Investor Day, CVS's virtual primary care offering, SCAN acquires in-home care, & more

December 22, 2022

Weekly Health Tech Reads | 5/8

Earnings (Bright, One Medical, Oak Street, etc), Tia partnered with UCSF, NEA merged three orgs into Curana, & more

December 20, 2022

Weekly Health Tech Reads | 11/13

VillageMD & Summit merger; Oak, Oscar, Bright & others report earnings; Friday told to leave the Texas exchanges; & more

December 20, 2022

Weekly Health Tech Reads | 11/20

Amazon announces Amazon Clinic, Sanford & Fairview merging, DispatchHealth raised a big round, and more!

December 20, 2022

Weekly Health Tech Reads | 12/4

UHG's investor day, Direct Contracting performance results, Render & Excelsior Medical Group merging, & more

December 20, 2022

Weekly Health Tech Reads | 12/11

Humana's annual value-based care report, articles on Morgan Health & Bright Health's respective strategies, Elevance class-action, and more!

December 20, 2022

Weekly Health Tech Reads | 12/18

Oscar shares deets on enrollment cap, SCAN & CareOregon merge, Centene's annual investor day, digital health co's sharing patient data, & more

November 9, 2022

Community Update | 11/3

A bi-weekly summary of happenings in the community

November 9, 2022

Weekly Health Tech Reads | 10/9

Medicare Star ratings released, a report on how MA payors are behaving, and more

November 9, 2022

Weekly Health Tech Reads | 10/16

Bright exiting the exchanges, Babylon selling Meritage, Walgreens highlights more on strategy, and more!

November 9, 2022

Weekly Health Tech Reads | 10/23

DOJ suing Cigna for upcoding, Elevance reported earnings, & more!

November 9, 2022

Weekly Health Tech Reads | 10/30

Teladoc earnings, hospitals creating NewCos, and more!

November 9, 2022

Weekly Health Tech Reads | 11/6

Lots of earnings (Humana, CVS, One Medical, agilon), VillageMD potentially acquiring Summit Health, & more!

November 1, 2022

Weekly Health Tech Reads | 10/2

A dive into Google's OneFifteen program, Medicaid Section 1115 waivers, a CBO report on commercial prices in healthcare

September 26, 2022

Weekly Health Tech Reads | 9/11

CVS wins the Signify bidding war, UHG and Walmart partner, Privia partners with Ohio Health, & more!

September 26, 2022

Weekly Health Tech Reads | 9/18

Humana's investor day, Redesign Health raises $65 million, the HTN Medicaid market map, and more!

September 26, 2022

Weekly Health Tech Reads | 9/25

BCBS MA working with Caron & Firefly, good podcasts on employer & Medicaid topics, & more!

September 6, 2022

Weekly Health Tech Reads | 8/28

The Signify auction heats up, Amazon Care shuts down, Alma gets $130 million & more

September 6, 2022

Weekly Health Tech Reads | 9/4

+Oscar loses its client, 98point6 pivots, perspective on GoodRx, and more

September 6, 2022

Weekly Health Tech Reads | 8/21

KeyCare funding, perspectives on Devoted, rural health challenges, & more

August 15, 2022

Weekly Health Tech Reads | 8/7

Q2 earnings in full swing (agilon, Alignment, Amwell, CVS, Oak Street), Elevance and Aledade partner, a primary care study & more

August 15, 2022

Community Update | 8/7

Highlights from recent conversations & events within the community

August 15, 2022

Weekly Health Tech Reads | 8/14

More Q2 earnings (Bright, Clover, Privia, & Oscar), SCAN expands to Texas, details on the Amazon / ONEM merger, & more

August 7, 2022

Weekly Health Tech Reads | 7/31

Earnings from Centene, Humana, & Teladoc; a cardiology partnership; & more

July 28, 2022

Community Update | 7/25

A summary of interesting things happening in the HTN Community

July 18, 2022

Weekly Health Tech Reads | 7/17

UHG reports earnings, Greycroft on whether care delivery is "venture fundable", Rock Health 1H 2022 funding results, & more

July 14, 2022

Weekly Health Tech Reads | 7/10

Signify leaves BPCI, Optum forms a JV for Optum Store, Mercer on employer priorities, & more

June 29, 2022

Weekly Health Tech Reads | 6/26

SCOTUS looms large, infrastructure activity heats up, perspectives on provider licensing challenges, & more

June 20, 2022

Weekly Health Tech Reads | 6/19

Optum acquires EMIS in UK, Circulo pivots away from Medicaid plan, & more!

June 13, 2022

Weekly Health Tech Reads | 6/5

An overview of Carbon Heatlh, CareMax's acquisition of Steward's VBC business, & more!

June 13, 2022

Weekly Health Tech Reads | 6/12

Some big funding rounds (LeanTaas, CareBridge, Aledade, Vanta & more), Spring Health’s peer reviewed study, and more!

May 28, 2022

Weekly Health Tech Reads | 5/22

Changes at Cerebral, Humana & Welsh Carson deepen partnership, & more

May 28, 2022

Weekly Health Tech Reads | 5/15

Clover, Babylon, Oscar, & Privia earnings reviews & more!

May 2, 2022

Weekly Health Tech Reads | 4/24

Anthem posts earnings, Babylon and HCA see stock prices drop, Humana divests Kindred's hospice & personal care divisions & more

May 2, 2022

Weekly Health Tech Reads | 4/17

Bright Health fined by Colorado, UHG earnings, Carbon and Froedtert partner, & more!

April 11, 2022

Weekly Health Tech Reads | 4/10

Optum acquired Kelsey-Seybold, a look at Olive's AI claims, Walmart's clinic expansion, & more

April 11, 2022

Weekly Health Tech Reads | 4/3

Optum acquired LHC Group, Hims & Hers is partnering with Carbon, & more

April 11, 2022

Weekly Health Tech Reads | 3/27

Oscar's investor day underwhelms; Fresenius, InterWell & Cricket merge; a look at the state of Medicare Advantage; & more!

March 24, 2022

Weekly Health Tech Reads | 3/20

Coverage of Oak Street & agilon's investor days, lots of interesting data, & more

March 19, 2022

Weekly Health Tech Reads | 3/6

Bright Health & Oak Street earnings, Ro makes an acquisition, & more!

March 19, 2022

Weekly Health Tech Reads | 3/13

agilon's analyst day, Babylon Health earnings, & more

February 28, 2022

HTN Weekly Health Tech Reads 2/27

Direct Contracting becomes ACO REACH, Somatus and Omada raise funding, earnings calls, & more!

February 28, 2022

HTN Weekly Health Tech Reads 2/20

Cerebral, Hartford Healthcare, & Noom all have issues with members, Ro raised $150 million, & more

February 20, 2022

HTN Weekly Health Tech Reads 2/6

ConcertoCare & Kindbody raised funding and make acquisitions, Cigna & Humana report earnings, & more

February 20, 2022

HTN Weekly Health Tech Reads 2/13

CVS & Oscar earnings calls, Carbon shares an investor update, a study on costs across sites of care, & more!

January 31, 2022

HTN Weekly Health Tech Reads 1/30

Oscar hits 1 million members, Anthem's earnings call, hospitals behaving badly, & more!

January 24, 2022

HTN Weekly Health Tech Reads 1/23

UHG's earnings, IBM Watson sells to private equity, a read on FQHCs, & more!

January 17, 2022

HTN Weekly Health Tech Reads 1/16

A flurry of JPMorgan activity - Aledade makes an acquisition, Transcarent raises $200 million, more VC 2022 predictions, & more!

January 9, 2022

HTN Weekly Health Tech Reads 1/9

Vera acquires Castlight, Nomi acquires Artemis, a defense of Medicare Advantage, perspectives on staffing shortages, & more

January 9, 2022

HTN Weekly Health Tech Reads 1/2

Duke sued as it attempts to acquire docs, congress investigates One Medical's COVID-19 vaccine rollout, & more!

January 9, 2022

HTN Weekly Health Tech Reads 12/19

Cerebral in hot water, virtual first health plans enter the limelight, 2022 predictions, & more!

December 15, 2021

HTN Weekly Health Tech Reads 12/5

UHG's investor day, Best Buy's earnings call, prediction season is ramping up, & more

December 15, 2021

HTN Weekly Health Tech Reads 12/12

CVS & Bright Health's investor days, City of Hope acquired CTCA, and more!

November 30, 2021

HTN Weekly Health Tech Reads 11/7

One Medical, Humana, & CVS post Q3 earnings, Centene sells its home health business to a group of VC / PE firms, & more!

November 30, 2021

HTN Weekly Health Tech Reads 11/14

The Q3 earnings season dumpster fire - Oscar, Bright, Clover, and Oak Street all post poor quarters, & more!

November 30, 2021

HTN Weekly Health Tech Reads 11/21

Teladoc's investor day, Talkspace posts a tough Q3, data on ER utilization and spend, & more!

November 4, 2021

HTN Weekly Health Tech Reads 10/24

A number of acquisitions (including Oak Street / RubiconMD, 23andMe / Lemonaid), CMMI releases a strategy refresher, Milliman report on MA & more

November 4, 2021

HTN Weekly Health Tech Reads 10/31

$1.1 billion of capital raised this week (Hinge, Medable, Truepill, Patina Health, and others) & more!

October 19, 2021

HTN Weekly Health Tech Reads 10/17

Retailers making big healthcare moves - Walgreens announces a new strategy & VillageMD & CareCentrix deals, Best Buy buys Current Health, and Walmart partners with Transcarent

October 13, 2021

HTN Weekly Health Tech Reads 9/26

Devoted reportedly raises a massive round, UniteUs acquired NowPow, the OIG looks at MA risk adjustment overpayments, & more!

October 13, 2021

HTN Weekly Health Tech Reads 10/10

Optum acquires SSMs revenue cycle mgmt business, CVS doubles down on its primary care strategy, & more!

October 12, 2021

HTN Weekly Health Tech Reads 10/3

A debate heats up over Medicare Advantage, Direct Contracting, and primary care innovation; a market map of the women's health space, & more!

September 20, 2021

HTN Weekly Health Tech Reads 9/19

Lots of massive funding rounds (Commure raised $500m, Spring Health raised $190m, Tia raised $100m) & lots more

September 17, 2021

HTN: Weekly Health Tech Reads 7/25

Carbon's big fundraised, partnerships from UHG and Anthem, home health worker supply challenges, and more!

September 13, 2021

HTN Weekly Health Tech Reads 8/29

A number of acquisitions - Headspace & Ginger, Unified Women's Healthcare & Women's Health USA, K Health & Trust, Alight & Consumer Medical, Connect America & 100Plus, Carbon & urgent care clinics

September 13, 2021

HTN Weekly Health Tech Reads 9/5

Genome Medical acquired Gene Matters, lots of big funding rounds (Cityblock $400m, Whoop $200m, quip $100m, Alma $50m, Solv $45m & more)

September 13, 2021

HTN Weekly Health Tech Reads 9/12

Sanford gets $350 million for a virtual care center, CareMax's investor day, data on telehealth visits, & more

August 23, 2021

HTN Weekly Health Tech Reads 8/1

Telehealth moves (Amwell acquires Silvercloud & Conversa, Ro launches mental health offering, Teladoc moving toward risk-based models), an overview of CMM, & more

August 23, 2021

HTN Weekly Health Tech Reads 8/8

Home care startup Honor acquires Home Instead, TruePill powers the Optum Store, Welsh Carson launches a new fund for value-based care, and more!

August 23, 2021

HTN Weekly Health Tech Reads 8/15

Earnings season in full swing (Oscar, Clover, Cano, Oak all reported), Vera partners with COPC, LabCorp gets into digital health, & more!

August 23, 2021

HTN Weekly Health Tech Reads 8/22

Google Health shutting down, an overview of Carbon Health's strategy, HCA and General Catalyst partner, & more!

July 22, 2021

HTN: Weekly Health Tech Reads 7/18

UHG posts Q2 earnings,"rest stop" telehealth visits explained, & more!

July 14, 2021

HTN Weekly Health Tech Reads 7/4

Contessa acquired, Ro makes another acquisition, BCBS NC launches a new venture, Main Street Health launches & more

July 14, 2021

HTN: Weekly Health Tech Reads 7/11

Bright, Cano, and Caremax all gobble up South Florida PCP practices, One Medical / Iora’s S-4 filed, Dollar General gets into healthcare & more

June 28, 2021

HTN Weekly Health Tech Reads 6/27

Pear gets SPAC'd, Health Catalyst acquires Twistle, twelve funding announcements, Health Tech Nerds launches, and more

June 21, 2021

Kevin's Weekly Health Tech Reads 1/3

A relatively quiet holiday week - Tenet is shifting its focus away from hospitals, CMMI Director defends Geographic Direct Contracting, and more

June 21, 2021

Kevin's Weekly Health Tech Reads 1/10

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

June 21, 2021

Kevin's Weekly Health Tech Reads 1/24

Signify Health files an IPO, K Health and Aledade raise $100m+ rounds, UHG earnings, an early look at 2021 Medicare Advantage enrollment numbers, & more

June 21, 2021

Kevin's Weekly Health Tech Reads 1/31

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!

June 21, 2021

Kevin's Weekly Health Tech Reads 2/7

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!!

June 21, 2021

Kevin's Weekly Health Tech Reads 2/14

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

June 21, 2021

Kevin's Weekly Health Tech Reads 2/21

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!

June 21, 2021

Kevin's Weekly Health Tech Reads 2/28

Two interesting acquisitions this week - Optum / Landmark and Cigna / MDLive; Oscar's roadshow; a look at Comcast's position in healthcare & more

June 21, 2021

Kevin's Weekly Health Tech Reads 3/7

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!

June 21, 2021

Kevin's Weekly Health Tech Reads 3/14

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

June 21, 2021

Kevin's Weekly Health Tech Reads 3/21

agilon health's S-1; a lot of employer innovation news (Grand Rounds / Doctor on Demand, Transcarent, and Amazon); and other stuff

June 21, 2021

Kevin's Weekly Health Tech Reads 3/28

Over $1.2 billion in startup funding announced this week & more!

June 21, 2021

Kevin's Weekly Health Tech Reads 4/11

Lots of news for the past few weeks: Bright & VillageMD preparing for IPOs; Cityblock, Crossover, and Rightway raised $100m+; good reads on pharma, the passion economy, dialysis, and more!

June 21, 2021

Kevin's Weekly Health Tech Reads 4/18

Daunte Wright & some healthcare news

June 21, 2021

Kevin's Weekly Health Tech Reads 4/25

Accolade acquires PlushCare, Oscar formally launches the +Oscar platform, Tiger leads a $133 million investment in Virta, & more!