Anne Wojcicki still wants her 23andMe. This time, she is requesting that the auction be reopened for more bids–hers, along with a new backer. The unnamed “Fortune 500 company with a current market ...

Takeaways: other insurers are challenged but UHG, for 40 years the best managed of the lot, is stumbling and falling into a hole; it hasn’t moved beyond ‘squeezing the rock’ of MLR and reducing care ...

Get back to being the insurer of choice for individuals and groups. Contract for the services you need, not own them and try to manage them too. UHG would not be the first insurer who has faced ...

Your Editor recommends grabbing lunch or a cuppa for these lengthy reads/views: Flawed Federal Programs Maroon Rural Americans in Telehealth Blackouts. This is mostly about the billions spent in ‘last ...

One of our Perspectives contributors, Yosi Health, is seeking a Demand Generation Manager for their B2B buyer customers. This role combines lead generation with marketing analysis, coordination with ...

More on this in Strata-gee 15 May. More good news– Editor Ted Green is recuperating and back at his desk, if only part-time. He has been invaluable for his inside looks at Masimo’s endless drama over ...

Most of 23andMe bought for a lot more than one could have thought–and why? Yesterday, the board of 23andMe confirmed that they have a court-approved definitive agreement for the sale of their core ...

The major news this week was the Hinge Health IPO, the first for digital health in two years–but the downside was that it was at a lower valuation. Denouements abounded with most 23andMe genetic ...

Transcarent closes Accolade buy, changes its game. Transcarent’s $621 million acquisition of Accolade was wrapped up in record time (two months from announcement). This takes the Nasdaq-listed ...

A company most have never heard of is snapping up provider networks, health plans, and management services. Astrana Health, a Southern California-based value-based care (VBC) company formerly known as ...

VA moving forward with the 2026 Oracle Cerner rollout of (lucky?) 13 centers. In March, the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) announced that the EHR Modernization (EHRM) for 2026 would be expanded ...

VillageMD to cut six locations in the Chicago area–five standalone, one attached to a Walgreens store. The clinics will close on 19 April. The irony is that VillageMD is headquartered in Chicago. In ...