by Jordana Choucair | Jan 6, 2022 | M&A
Advanced primary care provider Vera Whole Health has agreed to combine with health care data company Castlight Health in a $370 million all-cash deal. The transaction entails integrating Castlight Health’s technology, a digital platform offered to employers and health...
by Jordana Choucair | Jan 6, 2022 | M&A
NorthShore University HealthSystem and Edward-Elmhurst Health have merged into a nine-hospital system that will have roughly $5 billion in annual revenue. The partnership creates the third largest health system and the second largest physician network in the state....
by Jordana Choucair | Jan 6, 2022 | M&A
Addus HomeCare announced that it has reached an agreement to acquire “substantially all the assets of” JourneyCare for a purchase price of about $85 million. JourneyCare – one of the largest hospice and palliative care providers in Illinois – serves an average daily...
by Jordana Choucair | Jan 6, 2022 | Life Sciences
According to a Stat News review, major health care systems are not offering Aduhelm, Biogen Inc.’s controversial Alzheimer’s disease drug. The review identified 15 additional academic medical centers that aren’t prescribing it, including seven that...
by Jordana Choucair | Jan 6, 2022 | Life Sciences
A new study raises concerns about whether at-home rapid antigen tests can detect the Omicron variant before infected people can transmit the virus to others. The study looked at 30 people who received both the antigen tests and a PCR daily test, which is believed to...
by Jordana Choucair | Jan 6, 2022 | Life Sciences
The CDC said that it doesn’t have any plans to change the definition of “full vaccination” for COVID-19. According to the agency, people who have had three doses of Pfizer-BioNTech or Moderna Inc.’s vaccines, or those who have had a second dose after...
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