...health insurance payers, took a few months to work through into 2021. Telehealth usage in 2021 receded steadily to single digits, and at last report to just above 4% of claims as of October 2021 (FAIR Health US claims data). What remains is the continued dominance of mental health–62% for mental health codes. It’s turned out that Babylon Health‘s SPAC was the last of the major action for 2021, getting in under the wire in October. It’s obvious that investors will be more realistic in assessing telehealth companies, looking at the areas that sustained telehealth usage, such as behavioral health.... Continue Reading
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Short takes: 2022’s big kickoff with Babylon-Higi, Vera-Castlight buys; will funding slow down in ’22, eye-tracking telehealth for MS, vital signs tracking lightbulbs at CES 2022, and three catchups!
Babylon Health closed out 2021 by acquiring health kiosk Higi for an undisclosed amount. Babylon had earlier invested in Higi’s Series B [TTA 30 May 20] and was reported in October to be exercising its $30 million option to buy Higi after closing their SPAC. Release Vera Whole Health, an advanced primary care provider and clinic group based in Seattle, is acquiring Castlight Health, a data and care navigation platform. Vera will acquire Castlight in a $370 million all-cash deal. Strategic partners and investors include Anthem, Morgan Health (the JP Morgan Chase & Co business for the transformation of employee... Continue Reading
Short takes: Athenahealth close to sold, Teladoc wants More of the Patient, CVS fewer store customers
...of the juggernauts’ way and sticking to their knitting. With the addition of primary care (and, one can assume, the pandemic push), health systems and companies like Amazon Care and Babylon Health have jumped into the mix with ‘hit them where they ain’t’ offerings–Amazon offering house calls and services direct to employers, and Babylon 360 being offered to health plans and employers. Babylon and Teladoc’s Primary360 cover much the same ground, though, in connecting the patient users with an assigned doctor and primary care team for ongoing care. As noted last month [TTA 7 Oct], the walls between payer and... Continue Reading
What’s next for telehealth? Is it time for a correction?
...crossing of business lines. Companies like Heal, Dispatch Health, and Amazon Care will send a clinician to your house for a checkup–no running to your urgent care. Kidney disease? Monogram Health. Musculoskeletal pain? Hinge Health. Child with an earache or fever? Tyto Care. Check symptoms first? Babylon Health. Telemental health has gone from cocktail party repellent to the belle of the ball, concentrating on cognitive remote therapies. For the past year, it moved to more than half of all telehealth claims, with currently over 60% of procedure codes–and it’s consolidating. AbleTo was bought by Optum, Ginger bought by Headspace, SilverCloud... Continue Reading
News and deal roundup: Babylon’s $200M raise, Best Buy buys Current Health, Virgin Pulse-Welltok, Devoted Health’s $1bn raise, Withings watch gains FDA ECG clearance
Babylon Health adds $200 million to the accounts–in advance of its SPAC. Babylon’s raise of $200 million (€173M) in a ‘sustainability-linked investment’ came from the strategic capital investment firm, Albacore Capital Group. With the SPAC and PIPE, Babylon will now have access to over $800 million in capital [TTA 7 Oct]. Whew! Mobilhealthnews, Babylon release A score for Edinburgh. Current Health, a biosensor-based monitoring and home care management/remote patient monitoring system based in Edinburgh and Boston, sold itself to US retailer Best Buy. The company recently raised $43 million in an April Series B, which makes its quick sale somewhat... Continue Reading
Telehealth’s primary care wars heat up: Teladoc’s Primary360, Babylon 360
...Babylon are fully virtual in exams and checkups, sending equipment where needed, ordering lab tests and prescriptions, and accepting your prior health records, plus have 24/7 coverage for urgent situations. Babylon’s service also offers a symptom checker and connection to social determinants of health (SDOH) community services. It’s obvious that the payer-provider walls are coming down in all directions–telehealth is one more. Babylon, as we noted earlier, acquired two California-based practice groups. Payers like lower-cost, more convenient visits, and after a fractious start, have for some time. Many of the insurtechs either have close relationships with providers or have bought... Continue Reading
Babylon Health’s SPAC closing later this month at $4.2 billion value, buys California medical practices
Ali Parsa, CEO of Babylon Health, confirmed to FierceHealthcare yesterday that Babylon Health will be going public later this month via a SPAC. This is proceeding as closed in June with blank-check Alkuri Global Acquisition Corp., led by former Groupon CEO Rich Williams [TTA 1 June]. The pro-forma equity valuation is estimated as $4.2 billion, with Alkuri providing $575 million in gross proceeds to Babylon, including $230 million in a private placement from investors such as AMF Pensionsförsäkring and Palantir Technologies. The new Babylon Holdings Limited will be listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol BBLN.... Continue Reading
News and deal roundup: OneMedical’s $2.1 bn for Iora, CareDx buys Transplant Hero, Mount Sinai’s Elementa Labs; UK news–NHSX/Babylon, Doro-Everon, Tunstall
...Babylon technology. However, NHSX has disclaimed any work towards a national program with Babylon as practices reopen throughout the UK. DoroCare UK and Everon announced a partnership on products and services for social care, such as Everon’s Lyra, a cloud-based emergency call system, and Doro’s Eliza, a smartcare hub. Release Tunstall announced the release of the Tunstall Service Platform (TSP) in the UK. It’s described as a connected care software platform supporting the Tunstall Alarm Receiving Centres coordinated by local authorities and social housing providers. It has four unique functions: PNC (call handling), service manager, fieldforce manager, and proactive services.... Continue Reading
Babylon Health going the SPAC route with Alkuri Global for $4.2 billion value (updated for 3 June announcement)
...(PIPE) funding, the sources said. Alkuri is led by Groupon’s ex-CEO Rich Williams and former COO Steve Krenzer, The money connection is likely Sultan Almaadeed, a former executive at the Qatar Investment Authority, who is Alkuri’s chairman. This isn’t the first time Babylon has talked SPAC. Back in April, Babylon almost went into a SPAC backed by financier Alec Gore. Other SPACs in prior talks with Babylon were Freedom Acquisition I Corp., backed by former Credit Suisse Group AG CEO Tidjane Thiam, as well as a vehicle from Klaus Kleinfeld, the former head of Arconic. Yahoo!Finance, Babylon’s last big raise... Continue Reading
ATA2021 coming up (virtually) starting 1 June through 29 June
...Springboard for Increased Telehealth Adoption (June 1, 11:10-11:30am EST) Joe Kvedar, MD, ATA Chair of the Board; Mass General Brigham Afternoon Keynote: The Future of Helping Underserved Resources and Reflections on Work in Africa (June 1, 1:40 PM – 2:00 PM EST) Ali Parsa – Babylon Lois Quam – Pathfinder International Did We Cover Better Aligning Virtual Care with Employers and Consumers (June 3, 1:40-2:00pm EST) Glen Tullman, Transcarent Bertha Coombs, CNBC Release (PDF)–and see these links for the program overview, agenda, and pricing/registration. Registration includes programming, workshops, recordings, and sponsor networking. Hat tip to Gina Cella of Cella Communications... Continue Reading
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