
HealthTap Introduces Direct Virtual Primary Care Program
With HealthTap's new direct virtual primary care program, members get ongoing access to a primary care doctor of their choosing through video visits and messaging.
With HealthTap's new direct virtual primary care program, members get ongoing access to a primary care doctor of their choosing through video visits and messaging.
Vitable's $16 million Series A funding round was led by Cherryrock Capital and included participation from newark venture partners, Citi Impact Fund, First Round Capital, Commerce Ventures and Y Combinator. In total, Vitable has raised more than $25 million.
Eden Health will join Hint Health’s Hint Connect platform, which is a network of independent direct primary care clinics. Through the partnership, employees of Hint Connect’s employer customers will be able to choose whether they want to receive care from a local DPC provider in their area (either in-person or virtually) or a virtual provider through Eden Health.
The partnership is with Nextera Healthcare, a Colorado-based direct primary care provider. Nextera will join Hint Health's Hint Connect platform, a network of direct primary care providers for employers and third-party administrators.
Hint Health acquired AeroDPC, a software company and electronic medical record for direct primary care clinics. As a result, Hint will release a new product in 2023 that combines tools from both companies.
Through this health plan — expected to become available October 1 — members will have access to Frontier’s primary care services, as well as hospital visits, prescription drugs and other needs. Flume will handle the administrative hassles of designing the plan.
Everside Health Group, a Denver-based direct primary care startup, filed to go public. The company was formed out of a merger between three primary care groups, and primarily works with self-insured employers.
Sesame, a startup building a cash-pay marketplace for healthcare, raised $24 million. The sudden adoption of telehealth by the broader public led the startup to grow faster than expected.
Nice Healthcare, a Minnesota-based startup that offers telemedicine and primary care services, raised $5 million in seed funding. The company plans to use the funds to bring its benefits to businesses in more states.
Primary care startup One Medical saw a bigger net loss in its first earnings report since it went public. The company is making efforts to rein in costs in light of the pandemic, including delaying new office openings.
MACRA has three goals for our healthcare system: better care, smarter spending and healthier people. MIPS measures these goals and links fee-for-service payments to quality and value. Direct primary care is quite similar.
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