...our focus.” Will Mr. Market believe this in a shrinking market? The search for a permanent CEO is underway, and the replacement is expected to be named later this year. Teladoc release, Mobihealthnews, FierceHealthcare The broader meaning? This Editor explored what happened at Teladoc and the aftermath after some of the dust settled [TTA 9 April]. The Teladoc foundational model as a stand-alone, mostly urgent care service is not growing but shrinking. It doesn’t coordinate care nor does it integrate well into providers. While the pandemic gave that model a lift, it also boosted integrated services as modules into patient... Continue Reading
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Midweek news roundup: Optum exiting telehealth, laying off; Advocate Health selling MobileHelp; VA notifying 15M veterans re Change PHI breach, Oracle moving to Nashville–maybe? (updated)
...the strategic priorities of Advocate Health” according to their 22 April audit report (see document pages 10 and 13) and was authorized last December. Advocate, through its investment arm Advocate Aurora Enterprises, acquired both MobileHelp, one of the earliest mobile PERS, and sister company Clear Arch Health, a remote patient monitoring provider, in April 2022. Cost was not disclosed at that time but later was reported to be $290.7 million. The plan at the time was to combine both MobileHelp and Clear Arch with a senior care/home health provider earlier acquired by Advocate for $187 million, Senior Helpers. That company... Continue Reading
Walmart Health shutters health centers, Walmart Virtual Care, in sudden move (updated–why?)
...that ~4,500 Walmart pharmacies and 3,000 +optical centers will continue and grow. Pharmacies already offer Testing and Treatment services, health screenings, access to specialty pharmacy medication and care, as well as other essential services such as medication therapy management. In vision care, Walmart recently acquired 200 Vision Centers. Employees affected will receive either the opportunity to move to another location or separation benefits. The practices are “partners’ and will be paid for 90 days. Walmart’s wobbliness on the health provision front, along with rising costs, less reimbursement, and more competition than they thought, caught up to them in the end–as... Continue Reading
TTA’s April Showers 4: UHG admits ransom payment–to whom? Interpreting Merger Guidelines misery, VA needs EHR testing help, DHA a ‘front door’; Lumeris’ funding, Optum layoffs, more!
We return to the Cyberattack That Changed Everything, wondering how much and to whom UnitedHealth paid ransom–now that they’ve finally admitted it. Also returning to those Merger Guidelines and how they may change the face of healthcare M&A. VA and DOD hard at work on their EHRs and systems, Lumeris gains a luminous funding, but Optum staff are seeing pink slips. (Shifting Alerts to this Thursday, Friday, Saturday) Two studies: Telehealth underutilized, underbilled, even during pandemic–and accounted for only modest increases in costs, and quality (Perhaps undercaptured?) Short takes: VA seeks vendor to support EHR testing; Defense Health... Continue Reading
Two studies: Telehealth underutilized, underbilled, even during pandemic–and accounted for only modest increases in costs, quality
...diabetes (2.3%) and COVID-19 (2%). Surprisingly, fewer beneficiaries receiving e-visits lived in rural areas. HealthExec Note to Readers: for those puzzled by the absence of mental health diagnoses, FAIR Health’s monthly telehealth tracker which during the pandemic showed Covid/respiratory diagnoses first, then mental health–and mental health as #1 in about 5% of claims since then –FAIR uses a different methodology. It tracks medical claims for private health plans only, not traditional Medicare, Medicare Advantage, or Medicaid. It also does a comparison on CPT 99213, comparing a specific procedure provided via telehealth to the same procedure provided in an office. 15... Continue Reading
What the DOJ and FTC Merger Guidelines mean for healthcare M&A–a Epstein Becker Green podcast
Are you in the (mostly) lucky group of companies seeking to buy or be bought? This podcast is a ‘must hear’ as likely you’ll be affected. Healthcare law firm Epstein Becker Green’s roundtable podcast in the ‘Diagnosing Health Care’ series is their half-hour condensed view on the new Federal Merger Guidelines that the Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) finalized last 18 December. Their view on how it will affect healthcare organizations is not too different from your Editor’s lengthy review of the DOJ/FTC document published on 20 December. The DOJ/FTC end-of-year drop perhaps (ahem) was... Continue Reading
Who really has the 4TB of Change Healthcare data 4 sale? And in great timing, Optum lays off a rumored 20K–say wot?
The data is for sale! And the top does not go down, but the price definitely goes up! That old antique auto auction cry is paraphrased here because the 4TB of patient data hacked from Change’s systems is up for sale, since Change/Optum didn’t buy it. Interested parties should stroll over to the dark web and see RansomHub’s listing for details. Unlike some news sources that got confused, this apparently is the same 4TB that BlackCat/ALPHV affiliate ‘notchy’ stole (technically, exfiltrated) posted about on a dark web site shortly after the attack [TTA 7 Mar]. According to those early reports,... Continue Reading
Weekend reading: 23andMe’s exploding plastic inevitable fate–and what might have been
...nor timing was specified. Bloomberg, LinkedIn 23andMe shares closed Friday at $0.48 on the Nasdaq Global Select Market. On Wednesday, they closed at an all-time low of $0.36. It has not had a close above $1.00 since 29 September 2023. In November, Nasdaq notified them that the company had 180 days to bring the share price above $1.00 or face delisting–and there is little time remaining on the clock. CNBC In February, after a disastrous fiscal Q3 with net loss tripling and revenue down 32%, Wojcicki floated the idea of separating the consumer genomics/virtual care and the commercial genomic database/drug... Continue Reading
TTA’s April Showers 3: UHG damp financials, Change hack, House grilling; Cerebral hands over $7M; VA may restart Cerner EHR implementation; NeueHealth gets $30M from NEA; TandemStride debuts trauma survivor app, more!
...caught up with the first VA go-live in a year, Dexcom’s cleared OTC CGM, WebMD doubles down on health ed with Healthwise buy, Centene may sell abandoned HQ building. And Friday’s news is on a big cyberattack of an NHS Scotland region. Weekend roundup: NHS Dumfries (Scotland) cyberattacked; delisted Veradigm’s strong financials; One Medical NY patients’ coverage clash; Suki voice AI integrates with Amwell; Legrand and Possum extended; Zephyr AI’s $111M Series A News roundup: Cerner goes live at VA, DOD Lovell Center; WebMD expands education with Healthwise buy; Dexcom has FDA OK for OTC glucose sensor; Centene may have... Continue Reading
News roundup: Congress hammers absent UHG on Change cyberattack–and more; 10% unhinged at Hinge Health; Steward Health nears insolvency; Two Chairs $72M Series C
UnitedHealth Group facing direct Congressional criticism–and didn’t show up to answer it. The House Energy and Commerce Committee held a hearing yesterday on the BlackCat/ALPHV cyberattack on UHG/Optum’s Change Healthcare systems. Representatives of the American Hospital Association, which we noted led the earliest efforts to assess the situation, help health systems, and then lobby Health and Human Services to assist providers, the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives, and the Healthcare Sector Coordinating Council testified to a restive group of House representatives. Though reports have said that UHG had previously briefed the committee and CEO Andrew Witty will appear before... Continue Reading
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