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- Vālenz has acquired Health Cost Control Inc., a national provider of medical cost containment solutions with more than 25 years’ experience. Financial details of the acquisition were not disclosed.
- With specialization in claim and cost review services for high-dollar claims, including dialysis, air ambulance and behavioral health billing, Health Cost Control offers custom-designed programs for health plans, third-party administrators,
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CVS Health to Acquire Signify Health for $8B
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- CVS Health announced it will acquire Signify Health for $30.50 per share in cash, representing a total transaction value of approximately $8B.
- Signify Health's clinicians and providers can have an even greater impact by engaging with CVS Health's unique collection of assets and connecting patients to care how and when they need it.
Advancing CVS Health’s Value-Based Care Long-Term Strategy
Signify Health is a provider of Health Risk Assessments, value-based
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Upfront Acquires Patient Engagement Platform PatientBond
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- Upfront acquires PatientBond, a digital patient engagement platform creating a single enterprise technology solution to drive patient acquisition and loyalty.
- The acquisition accelerates Upfront's delivery of their next-generation personalization platform. Combined with Upfront's omnichannel communications capabilities, PatientBond's robust consumer insights build and expand loyal patient-provider relationships to influence positive behavioral changes, resulting
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Intelerad Acquires PenRad Technologies
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- Today, Intelerad, a leading global provider of enterprise medical imaging solutions, announced its acquisition of PenRad, a software provider for enhancing productivity for breast imaging and lung screening.
- The acquisition expands Intelerad’s product offerings for mammography and lung analytics, ensuring radiologists, technologists and other healthcare professionals can drive greater productivity and meet higher oncology screening demand, while improving patient
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Signal AI Acquires Healthcare Rep & Risk Insights Platform Kelp
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Signal AI, the leading global External Intelligence company, today announces that it has acquired US company KELP Inc., the first actionable platform for corporate reputation. Financial details of the acquisition were not disclosed.
The healthcare industry is defined by reputation and trust. And through this acquisition Signal AI will now be able to build upon its risk management capabilities allowing healthcare companies to identify, mitigate and avoid emerging
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Availity to Acquire Diameter Health to Expand Clinical Data Interoperability
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- One of the nation’s largest real-time health information networks Availity announced an agreement to acquire Diameter Health, a national leader in clinical data quality and interoperability.
- This strategic deal expands Availity’s clinical portfolio to deliver the strongest integrated clinical and claims data network and interoperability platforms in healthcare.
Streamlining Clinical Data Interoperability
Founded in 2013, Diameter
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CVS Health in Talks to Acquire Signify Health
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- Signify Health is exploring strategic alternatives including a sale, according to a Wall Street Journal report. Initial bids are due this coming week. Additional companies are also in acquisition discussions with Signfiy Health, and CVS could face competition from other managed-care providers and private-equity firms.
- The potential Signify acquisition has a market value of around $4.7 B after its shares rose on the news of a potential sale.
Leveraging
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Netsmart Acquires SNF Claims Data Analytics Solution CORE Analytics
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- Netsmart announced that it has acquired CORE Analytics, the industry-leading skilled nursing facility (SNF) claims data analytics offering from Zimmet Healthcare.
- With the addition of Core Analytics, Netsmart Simple™is now the only solution suite in the market capable of calculating quality measures and Five-Star ratings leveraging Minimum Data Set (MDS), Payroll-Based Journaling (PBJ) and UB-04 claims data.
Software Solutions to Problems in
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Healthcare & Life Science M&A Activity Plummets 1H’22
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- The index of Healthcare & Life Science equities tracked by Stout was down 16.8% in Q2 2022, which was in line with the S&P 500 decline of 16.4%.
- Healthcare & Life Science M&A activity plummeted to 338 deals in Q2 2022 versus 535 in Q2 2021 and a record 565 deals in Q4 2021. The report reveals credit markets likely to tighten, but a healthy level of M&A is expected to continue in the growing and defensive healthcare sector.
Key Trends and
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ResMed Acquires Digital Therapeutics App for Insomnia
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- Today ResMed, a provider of digital health solutions for sleep and respiratory care, acquires Germany-based mementor, the maker of somnio, which provides a digital solution for treating insomnia and marks ResMed’s first foray into the digital therapeutics space.
- Founded in 2014, somnio is Germany’s first and only permanently approved Digital Health Application (DiGA) in the field of sleep medicine and thus eligible for reimbursement in
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