What You Should Know: - Aledade, a Bethesda, MD-based provider of value-based primary care raises $123M in Series E funding to support investments in value-based care for more seniors covered by Medicare Advantage (MA) and innovation that improves patient care and increases medical cost savings, including expanded offerings through its new health services subsidiary, Aledade Care Solutions (ACS). Returning investor OMERS Growth Equity led the round, which also included Fidelity Management
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CareMax Acquires Steward Health’s Medicare Value-Based Care Business for $25M
What You Should Know: - CareMax, a tech-enabled provider of value-based care to seniors announced an agreement to acquire the Medicare value-based care business of Steward Health Care System for a combination of cash and stock. - CareMax will pay $25 million in cash and issue 23.5 million shares of CareMax’s Class A common stock to the equity holders of Steward at closing, subject to customary adjustments. In addition, CareMax will fund a Medicare receivable to Steward covering accounts
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Bamboo Health ACOs Generate $1B+ in Medicare Shared Savings Program
What You Should Know: - Following the National Association of Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) announcement of 2020 data detailing the Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP), Medicare's largest alternative payment model, Bamboo Health, formerly Appriss Health and PatientPing, announced its national network of ACOs generated over $1 billion in total shared savings. - Bamboo Health’s ACO partners succeed under value-based care programs like the MSSP by utilizing their Pings
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Aledade Secures $100M for Value-Based Primary Care, Reaching $2.1B Valuation
What You Should Know: - Aledade raises $100 Million in Series D funding to help
more primary care practices thrive in value-based care. - The new funding will power the growth of a nationwide network of more than one million patients by further expanding into Medicare Advantage Contracts. Aledade,
a Bethesda, MD-based provider of value-based primary care, today announced it
has closed a $100 million Series D funding round following a year of
significant growth for its national
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CMS Direct Contracting Model Options for Value-Based Care
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) created the Direct Contracting Model to expand opportunities for more diverse providers and healthcare organizations to participate in value-based care arrangements for Medicare fee-for-service (FFS) beneficiaries. The goal of the new model is to create the next generation of risk-sharing arrangements to improve outcomes for patients, lower costs, and ensure high-quality care. In developing the Direct Contracting model and associated
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Collaborative Health Systems’ ACOs Delivers $335M in Medicare Savings
Collaborative
Health Systems (CHS) announced today that its Medicare Shared Savings
Program (MSSP) Accountable
Care Organizations (ACOs) delivered $335 million in total savings to
Medicare and $183 million in shared savings since 2012, according to figures
released by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). Defining Medicare ACOs Medicare ACOs are groups of doctors, hospitals, and other
healthcare providers who come together voluntarily to provide coordinated,
high-quality
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ACO to Deploy Innovaccer’s FHIR-enabled Data Activation Platform Across Medicare Population
What You Should Know: - MultiCare Connected Care announced it will leverage Innovaccer's FHIR®-enabled Data Activation Platform for the Medicare Track 1+ population. - MultiCare Connected Care is an Accountable Care Organization and a wholly-owned subsidiary of MultiCare Health System based in the state of Washington, one of the largest, not-for-profit health systems. MultiCare
Connected Care (MCC), one of the leading clinically integrated care
networks in the state of Washington,
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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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Sharecare Acquires Value-Based Care Platform Visualize Health
- Sharecare acquires Visualize Health, a Franklin, Tenn.-based population health and quality measure platform that enables payers and providers to close gaps in patient care to maximize value-based care. - The acquisition will enhance Sharecare’s capabilities for medical records management and is the 14th acquisition since Sharecare was founded in 2010. Sharecare, the digital health
company that helps people manage all their health in one place, today announced
its acquisition
of
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HealthLynked Acquires Cura Health & ACO Health Partners
- HealthLynked acquires Cura Health Management and its wholly-owned subsidiary ACO Health Partners LLC for $1.75M. - The acquisition is expected to contribute approximately $2.25M of revenue and $500k in EBITDA in year one, increasing HealthLynked's consolidated revenues by 47% and reducing the company's current annual cash burn by over 50%.HealthLynked Corp, a nationwide healthcare network focused on care management of its members and a provider of healthcare technologies that connect doctors,
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