What You Should Know: – Forge Health, a White Plains, NY-based behavioral healthcare provider with a proven, national-payer-validated ability to drive clinical outcomes that span all areas of health, today announced an $11M growth funding round led by HC9 Ventures. - Innovative behavioral health company works with payers and health systems to enable value-based care for mental health and substance use populations. Transforming Addiction and Mental Health Treatment Founded in 2016,
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NeuroFlow Secures $20M for Tech-Enabled Behavioral Health Integration Platform
What You Should Know: - NeuroFlow raises $20M to expand its technology-enabled behavioral
health integration platform, led by Magellan Health. - NeuroFlow’s suite of HIPAA-compliant, cloud-based tools
simplify remote patient monitoring, enable risk stratification, and facilitate
collaborative care. With NeuroFlow, health care organizations can finally
bridge the gap between mental and physical health in order to improve outcomes
and reduce the cost of care. NeuroFlow, a
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Regence, MultiCare Health System to Deploy HL7 Da Vinci Member Attribution List for Value-Based Care Arrangements
What You Should Know: - Regence and MultiCare ink first-in-the-nation value-based
care partnership to deliver improved health outcomes at lower costs. Health insurance provider Regence
and MultiCare Health System,
an independent accountable
care organization (ACO) have partnered to deploy a first-in-the-nation value-based model
that delivers better health outcomes to members at lower costs while
simplifying administration for health care providers. Regence serves
approximately 3.1
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PointClickCare Acquires Collective Medical for $650M to Create to Largest Combined Acute and Post-Acute Care Network
What
You Should Know: -
PointClickCare announces its intent to acquire Collective Medical to create the
largest combined acute and post-acute care network in North America for $650M. -
Collective Medical’s platform connects more than 1,300 hospitals, thousands of
ambulatory practices and long-term post-acute care (LTPAC) providers, as well
as accountable care organizations (ACOs) and every national health plan in the
country, across a 39-state network. - With the acquisition of
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Arcadia, PatientPing Expands Partnership to Enhance Real-Time Patient Data for Healthcare Organizations
What You Should Know: - Arcadia and PatientPing expand partnership to help customers achieve improved post-acute and transitions of care outcomes. - As part of the expanded partnership, Arcadia Analytics will further integrate real-time health event notifications into comprehensive patient data set for improved care coordination. Arcadia , a provider of population health management technology, announced today that it has expanded its relationship withPatientPing, a comprehensive
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Intermountain’s Castell Taps Arcadia to Elevate Value-Based Care
What You Should Know: - Intermountain’s Castell has selected Arcadia Analytics
as the healthcare technology and analytics foundation to support its
comprehensive approach to helping organizations accelerate the transition from
volume- to value-based systems of care. Castell, the new comprehensive healthcare platform company from Intermountain Healthcare that elevates value-based capabilities for providers, payers, healthcare systems, and accountable care organizations (ACOs) has
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Backed by Northwell, Conversa Health Raises $12M for AI-Powered Chatbots
What You Should Know: - Conversa Health raises $12 million in Series B funding
round to expand its AI-powered chatbots enabling health systems, payers and pharmaceutical
companies to engage patients and collect patient-generated health data and
patient-reported outcomes. - Conversa plans to use the funding to scale its virtual
care and communication platform—97 percent of patients who have used its chatbots
say they can better manage their care with Conversa. - Murray Brozinsky
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Aledade Raises $64M for Value-Based Care Network of Physician-Led ACOs
What You Should Know: - Aledade raises $64M in Series C funding led by OMERS Growth Equity to expand its national network of more than 500 physician-driven accountable care organizations (ACOs) across 27 states. - To date, Aledade’s ACOs care for more than 840,000 patients and manage more than $7.5 billion in health care spending through 38 Medicare and 42 other value-based contracts. Today, Aledade announced
it has closed a $64 million Series C funding round following the
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PatientPing’s Network of Next Generation ACO Partners Generates Over $150M in Savings
PatientPing’s national network of Next Generation Accountable Care Organizations (ACO) partners generated over $150 million in savings under the CMS Next Generation ACO for the year 2018. PatientPing's national network includes thousands of providers across hospitals, health systems, health plans, post-acute, and other entities, all of which are working together to collaborate with one another on their shared patients.PatientPing, a Boston, MA-based care collaboration platform announced that its
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Can Consumer Price Transparency in Healthcare Live Up to the Hype?
There has been a lot of discussion in recent weeks and months about price transparency in healthcare. The idea is simple—payers and providers reveal the rates they pay or charge for health services in order to help consumers make better choices.
Despite the hype surrounding price transparency, it will undoubtedly come with a whole set of realities and limitations—there are a variety of factors that go into setting prices, and in many cases, the prices that get posted don’t reflect the price
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