Another week another SPAC (Butterfly Network this time), Amazon steps into pharmacy, lots of funding rounds, some interesting interviews & more
SPACs - Cano Health is acquired & a scathing report on Multiplan, Oak Street is excited about Direct Contracting, AmWell might buy Omada, & more!
CMS posts Direct Contracting Entities, a quiet week of healthcare news, & a lot of job postings
Intermountain & Sanford merge, interesting tidbits from Q3 earnings calls, lots of funding rounds, Verma rips CMMI, & more
Lots of interesting fundraising rounds; some good deep dives on price transparency, Surescripts, and Clover's tech; job postings over on Slack; & more!
Q3 earnings season begins; 98point6 raises $118 million; a good podcast on VillageMD & more
Clover goes public via SPAC, Walmart entering brokerage business in a big way, Humana's state of value based care initiatives, lots of funding rounds & more!
Walmart enters Medicare Advantage insurance market; Molina acquires another Medicaid plan; UHG acquires DivvyDose; PE-backed hospitals behaving badly; & more!
Some pretty incredible deep dives this week including CHQPR detailing rural hospital finances and a look into Sutter's antitrust case; Bright Health raises $500m; & more!
A RAND Corporation study on commercial health care prices; Oscar prepping for an IPO; Olive, MDLive & others raise funding; & more
A look under the hood at hospital finances; GRAIL files its S-1; a bunch of fundraising: Grand Rounds, Truepill, Ready, Sana, Decent, etc: a guide for providers implementing telehealth; & more
More on Teladoc / Livongo, Walmart + Oak Street partner, California is close to allowing NPs to practice on their own & more
