Tuesday, October 4, 2022: Health IT

Rock Heath’s latest quarterly report found that digital health companies raised $2.2 billion across 125 deals in the third quarter – the smallest funding quarter since the fourth quarter of 2019. In Q1 of this year, digital health funding slowed to $6.1 billion, down...

Tuesday, October 4, 2022: Life Sciences

Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Chair Lina Khan said the agency is considering all its tools, including law enforcement or market-wide rulemaking, as it scrutinizes the business practices of pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs). When asked whether existing antitrust laws...

Tuesday, October 4, 2022: M&A

Investment firm Francisco Partners signed a definitive agreement to acquire software provider bswift from CVS Health. Since its founding in 1996, bswift has helped partners and employers streamline administration, handle employee benefits, decrease administrative...

Tuesday, October 4, 2022: M&A

UnitedHealth Group Inc. said it officially completed its roughly $13 billion acquisition of Change Healthcare Inc. The announcement comes two weeks after a federal judge rejected the Department of Justice’s challenge that the merger violated antitrust laws....