What You Should Know: - Cricket Health is announcing today that it will merge with Fresenius Health Partners (the value-based care arm of Fresenius), and InterWell Health, to form the nation’s premier, value-based kidney care provider with a totally new model of addressing kidney disease. The new company will operate under the InterWell Health brand and is valued at $2.4B. - Together, Fresenius Health Partners, InterWell Health, and Cricket Health will drive innovation and industry
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Season Health, Geisinger, CommonSpirit Health, Cricket Health Launches Anchor Partnerships to Scale Food as Medicine Initiatives
What You Should Know: - Season Health announces anchor partnerships with Geisinger, CommonSpirit Health, and Cricket Health to scale Food as Medicine initiatives. Season is funded by LRV Health, 8VC, Bain Capital, Healthy.VC and Company Ventures, Toyin Ajayi (Co-founder and CMO of Cityblock Health), and Max Mullen (Co-founder of Instacart). - These partnerships will combine Season’s industry-leading digital food pharmacy and medically tailored meal program with Geisinger, CommonSpirit and
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Cricket Health Secures $83.5M to Expand Value-Based Kidney Care Model to Health Plans
What You Should Know: - Cricket Health, a San Francisco, CA-based provider of value-based kidney care with a clinically-proven approach to managing chronic kidney disease (CKD) and end-stage kidney disease (ESKD), today announced it has raised $83.5 million in Series B funding round led by Valtruis with a strategic investment from Blue Shield of California. The round also includes existing investors Oak HC/FT and Cigna Ventures, as well as K2 HealthVentures. - This new funding will help
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Blue Shield of CA Taps Cricket Health to Offer AI-Driven, Personalized Kidney Care Plans for Members At No Cost
What You Should Know: - Blue Shield of CA and kidney care provider Cricket
Health announced a partnership to offer a personalized, virtual,
multidisciplinary care available for members with kidney disease or kidney
failure at no extra cost - By offering remote care, via phone or virtually online,
Cricket Health’s approach to kidney care is designed to keep Blue Shield
members living with kidney disease healthy at home, and out of clinics or
hospitals whenever possible. Health
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CB Insights Unveils ‘Digital Health 150’ List of Startups Transforming Healthcare
- CB Insights unveils first-ever annual ‘Digital Health 150’ list of digital health startups working to transform the healthcare industry. - The Digital Health 150 companies span a wide spectrum of categories that involve all three key stakeholder groups for the healthcare industry — providers, payers, and patients. - A total of 17 companies on the list are unicorns (private companies valued at $1B+). Of these, 12 companies are US-based, 3 are based in China, 1 is based in France, and 1
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Cricket Health Raises $24M to Transform Patient-Centric Kidney Care
Cricket Health, a tech-enabled provider of integrated kidney care, today announced it has raised $24 million in Series A funding led by Oak HC/FT. Other participants in the round include additional new investors include Cigna Corporation, LifeForce Capital, iSeed Ventures, Joe Montana’s Liquid 2 Ventures, Rock Health co-founder Halle Tecco, and Virta Health co-founder Sami Inkinen. Returning investors include First Round Capital, Box Group, Nexus Ventures, Seven Peaks Ventures, Aberdare
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Cricket Health Appoints Dr. Carmen A. Peralta as New Chief Medical Officer
Cricket Health, a specialty care provider for chronic kidney disease (CKD) and end-stage renal disease (ESRD) patients, announced today that Carmen A. Peralta, MD, MAS, has been named the company’s chief medical officer (CMO). Dr. Peralta, Professor of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), and a renowned nephrologist who has served on Cricket Health’s medical advisory board, will lead the company’s medical team as it expands its programs and clinical footprint around
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Cricket Health Launches to Deliver Value-Based Kidney Care for Patients
Cricket Health, a San Francisco, CA-based digital health startup has officially launched to provide technology-enabled products and services to modernize and transform how kidney care is delivered for people living with chronic kidney disease (CKD) and end stage renal disease. The company has raised $2.5 million in seed funding led by Cricket Health has raised $2.5 million in seed funding led by First Round Capital, BoxGroup, Seven Peaks Ventures, Nexus Venture Partners, and NFX Guild.Founded in
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