Keplr Vision, the group formed in mid-2019 to provide an operational and support platform to optometric practices seeking growth, announced that it has partnered with entrepreneur and thought-leader Heidi Q.T. Pham-Murphy, OD, and her husband, Thomas H. Murphy, OD. Visions Optometry and Eye Designs Optometry have a combined four locations in the Sacramento market, and […]
The Trump administration released its proposed budget for fiscal year 2021 on Monday. In addition to doubling down on the administration’s efforts aimed at reducing Medicare fraud, waste and abuse, the proposal touts savings tied to a potential unified payment system for post-acute care providers. Overall, the White House budget proposal seeks to curb spending
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The eHealth sector had a record 2019, with 222 deals now on the books, a roughly 9% increase over 2018’s volume, and $18.3 billion in spending. That momentum has carried over to the first month of 2020, with 19 eHealth deals in January and $1.8 billion in announced spending, according to the Deal Search Online
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When it comes to social determinants of health, both payers and providers say they’re on top of the situation. However, both constituencies take a different approach, according to a new survey from Change Healthcare. Change Healthcare’s annual survey of provider and payer executives in some ways seems to echo the country’s current political schism. “In
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Encompass Health (NYSE: EHC) will be targeting large acquisitions in the home health and hospice space during 2020 with an emphasis on hospice, due to disruption in the home health sector resulting from the Patient Driving Groupings Model (PDGM). Effective Jan. 1, 2020 Medicare began reimbursing home health care providers through PDGM, which classifies patients
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Industry experts expect significant changes to shake up the healthcare landscape in the next few years, which will affect both health insurers and providers. Many are the result of a shift toward value-based care, a move toward decreased care in hospital settings, technological advances, and other forces. Here’s a look at what can payers and
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John Woolley, an investor with executive experience at Oak Street Health, took over as president and CEO of the Hatfield Medical Group in Phoenix in July 2019. Woolley says value-based care requires scale, so he has an ambitious plan to increase the number of Hatfield clinics from five to 50 over the next five years.
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PCI Pharma Services (PCI), a leading pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical global supply chain solutions provider, today announced the acquisition of Bellwyck Pharma Services (Bellwyck), headquartered in Toronto, Canada. With 25 years of experience, Bellwyck is a leader in primary and secondary packaging and labeling for clinical trial and commercial drug markets. The acquisition will add four
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P4 Diagnostix, a network of nationally-recognized diagnostic testing laboratories, today announced the acquisition of the assets of Strand Diagnostics, creator of the know error® system. Strand’s suite of DNA Specimen Provenance Testing (DSPT) is a leader in the field of DNA confirmation testing. In addition to their cutting-edge forensic DNA know error system, the company
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The city of San Francisco will purchase two residential care facilities at risk of closing, Mayor London Breed and Supervisor Rafael Mandelman announced Monday. The city’s acquisition of the two sites, Grove Street House and South Van Ness Manor, is part of a larger effort by Breed to address what city officials say is a
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