July has seen a slew of executive hires, exits and layoffs across the healthcare sector. For example, Aledade and Teladoc Health welcomed new executives, and DexCom and Community Health Systems announced that their CEOs are departing. There were also layoffs at organizations including Best Buy Health, the VA and Sarepta Therapeutics.
Walgreens is considering buying Evolent Health, which makes software to help providers manage their value-based care programs, according to a recent report by Bloomberg. Evolent's stock rose more than 18% on the news of the potential deal.
Shocker, shocker — healthcare is challenging. At HLTH, CEOs Anne Wojcicki, Jonathan Bush and Frank Williams discussed how they persevered and made their companies succeed in a difficult sector.
Also, Biotech industry veteran Steve Holtzman, has become CEO of Decibel Therapeutics and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights offers guidance for hospitals on ransomware attacks.
The Medicaid Center of Excellence will offer strategic, clinical, technology and administrative support to other Medicaid benefits administrators as they seek to improve care coordination and communication with beneficiaries.
An NYSE ad that debuted this week includes some screen time for Evolent Health CEO Frank Williams
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Frank Williams and James Park lead companies that are at starkly different parts of the healthcare spectrum, but they each have something in common: they had IPOs this year.
Shares of Evolent Health jumped nearly 11 percent on their first day of trading Friday.
Fresh on the heels of telemedicine provider Teladoc chucking its hat in the IPO pool, Evolent Health‘s move to register a $100 million IPO casts a wider spotlight on population health. The population health IT provider and management consultancy, formed by University of Pittsburgh Medical Center and the Advisory Board Co., wants to help health […]
The concept of health insurance provided by health systems is not a new one. Kaiser Permanente, for example, has been doing it for years. In the buildup to tomorrow’s launch of the health insurance exchanges, several health systems have been rolling out their own plans. Evolent Health, founded by University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Health […]
Healthcare payments are no longer about transactions. It’s about controlling the revenue cycle. And increasingly, that control is not sitting with ISOs.