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News 4/1/24
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Virtual addiction care company Pelago raises $58 million in Series C funding, bringing its total raised to $151 million. The business, which launched in 2017 as Quit Clinic, offers its services to employers and payers.
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Acquisitions, Funding, Business, and Stock
Telemedicine provider QuickMD acquires South Dakota-based addiction treatment clinic Project Recovery. QuickMD also has brick-and-mortar locations in Alabama, Arkansas, and South Carolina.
Walmart will open 22 new health clinics within Walmart Supercenters this year, bringing its total to 70 across the country. Company officials say they are taking a “measured approach” to clinic expansion
People
Harmony Healthcare IT names Kelly Hahaj (Indiana Health Information Exchange) VP of corporate development.
Jenny Cox (GeBBS Healthcare Solutions) joins Elevate Medical Solutions as president.
Announcements and Implementations
Empathic Podiatry in Texas implements EHR and RCM software from EClinicalWorks.
Other
Providers in Oregon are still feeling the impact of the Change Healthcare outage on their revenue cycle, according to a recent Oregon NPR profile. Oregon Specialty Group, an independent practice with four locations, resorted to mailing and faxing bills to payers, sending one or two in the time it would have normally taken to digitally send 200. That sluggishness cut the practice’s revenue in half – a situation that wasn’t made any better by the initial offer of an $8,000 loan by Change Healthcare parent company UnitedHealth Group. OSP ultimately wound up with a $1.2 million loan after NPR contacted UnitedHealth for its story.
SSM Health Monroe Medical Group staff collect 951 children’s books to give to their pediatric patients during sick visits.
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- PerfectServe announces several 2023 milestones, including awards and recognition from industry analysts, 10% revenue growth, and a 107% enterprise net customer retention rate.
- Waystar publishes a new e-book, “4 opportunities for healthcare revenue cycle improvement.”
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