by Jordana Choucair | Jun 2, 2022 | Inequities and SDOH
Rite Aid and tech startup Homeward announced they are partnering to improve access to rural health care. Beginning this summer, Rite Aid will introduce Medicare-eligible customers to Homeward’s services (e.g., wellness visits, screenings, and risk assessments)...
by Jordana Choucair | Jun 2, 2022 | Life Sciences
Pfizer announced that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) accepted its application for a three-dose COVID-19 vaccine in children aged 6 months to under 5 years old. In February, the FDA asked Pfizer-BioNTech to submit a request for emergency use authorization (EUA)...
by Jordana Choucair | Jun 2, 2022 | Life Sciences
USC’s Schaeffer Center for Health Policy and Economics released a report examining how pharmacy benefit managers’ (PBMs) tactics such as spread pricing and copay clawbacks are driving up consumers’ costs for generic drugs. For example, Medicare Part D standalone drug...
by Jordana Choucair | Jun 2, 2022 | M&A
According to an Axios report, Optum has purchased Healthcare Associates of Texas (HCAT) from Webster Equity Partners. HCAT has a large footprint in the Dallas-Fort Worth metropolitan area and has also invested heavily in value-based care, both of which make it an...
by Jordana Choucair | Jun 2, 2022 | M&A
Value-based care provider CareMax announced plans to acquire Steward Health Care System’s Medicare value-based care business. The roughly $135 million deal would more than quintuple CareMax’s current number of covered seniors. The company currently covers roughly...
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