Oscar Health filed preliminary paperwork for an IPO on Friday. The health insurance startup is betting that its technology can give it an edge as it fights for market share with bigger competitors.
Judges picked TrialSpark as the winner on the life sciences track of the pitch competition at MedCity's virtual precision medicine conference. While the company is focused on improving clinical trials for others, it hopes eventually to bring drugs of its own to market.
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On the heels of a $140 million funding round, insurance startup Oscar Health confidentially filed for an IPO.
Insurance startup Oscar Health plans to expand to 19 new markets next year, pending regulatory approval. The company will offer individual and family health plans in four new states, and will expand its presence in existing states.
Oscar Health raised $225 million in funding from new and existing investors. The insurance startup is currently operating in 29 markets.
Cigna CEO David Cordani shared more details with investors about two upcoming partnerships for the company with Prime Therapeutics and Oscar Health.
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The health insurance plans will be branded as Cigna + Oscar and will launch in select markets this year. Tech-savvy insurance startup Oscar Health started offering individual plans through the ACA exchanges, but has been expanding its repertoire to small group and Medicare Advantage plans.
All told, the company will be active in 26 markets across 15 states, pending regulatory approval.
Oscar, which was initially founded in 2012 to serve the emerging Obamacare insurance exchanges, decided to enter into Medicare Advantage after a $375 million funding round from Alphabet last year.
The Department of Justice has weighed in on Oscar Health's side arguing that the antitrust concerns raised by the company in court should not be thrown out and backing Oscar's claims of "coercion" in the implementation of Florida Blue's exclusive broker policy.
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If Cardiogram's technology highlights a potential issue of atrial fibrillation or diabetes, patients will be given free access to what the company calls a "gold standard" diagnostic test to confirm the results.
The Medicare Advantage startup positioned the layoffs as a way to focus more on developing specific expertise in Medicare Advantage and healthcare.
Last year, the New York-based company sued insurer Florida Blue, a licensee of the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association over its exclusive broker policy, which it claimed was anti-competitive and reduces customer choice.
The deal expands access to MyDoc’s virtual managed care platform to more than 14,000 UST employees across the Indian cities of Bangalore and Mumbai.
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