CareAcademy makes new leadership hires A few months after making its first acquisition, the caregiver training platform CareAcademy is adding to its leadership team to support its next stage of growth. CareAcademy announced that Laura Bottino will serve as the company’s CFO; Kristin Relyea will serve as the vice president of product, design and engineering; […]
CVS Health
CVS Health (NYSE: CVS) announced that it will complete its $8 billion acquisition of Signify Health (NYSE: SGFY) this week. “CVS Health today announced it expects to complete its acquisition of Signify Health on or around March 29, 2023, subject to the satisfaction or waiver of the remaining customary closing conditions set forth in the […]
CVS Health (NYSE: CVS) announced Wednesday that it has agreed to purchase Oak Street Health (NYSE: OSH) for $10.6 billion. The companies expect for the transaction to close sometime this year. While Oak Street Health is a primary care provider, it does do work in the home. But, more broadly, CVS Health’s move to acquire […]
The in-home kidney care provider Monogram Health has closed on $375 million in funding, led by major health care players such as CVS Health (NYSE: CVS), Cigna Ventures, Humana (NYSE: HUM), Memorial Hermann Health System and SCAN Group. The Nashville-based Monogram Health has been growing rapidly over the past two years. The kidney care management […]
Home health care’s 2022 was dimmed by the dark cloud of Medicare rate cuts. That cloud still hangs overhead in 2023. To weather the storm, providers are scrambling to find answers to persistent problems, namely staffing shortages. At the same time, they’re renegotiating arrangements with Medicare Advantage (MA) plans and pivoting from certain service lines […]
Signify Health (NYSE: SGFY) is a home-focused organization. Therefore, CVS Health’s (NYSE: CVS) $8 billion pending purchase of it means the company is part of the largest home-based care deal of the year. That deal is also one of the few this past year that have proven the ethos of home-based care. After all, the […]
The flurry of 2021’s home-based care deals was a tough act for 2022 to follow. Especially in the third and fourth quarters of last year, a record-breaking number of transactions went down. A variety of factors contributed to that volume, including changing conditions that – at least for a short period of time – allowed […]
The U.S. Department of Justice is seeking more information about CVS Health’s (NYSE: CVS) pending $8 billion deal to purchase Signify Health (NYSE: SGFY). The request from the Justice Department will draw out the amount of time CVS and Signify will have to wait before proceeding with the deal by 30 days. The government could […]
CVS Health (NYSE: CVS) has named Dr. Amar Desai the president of its newly formed Health Care Delivery organization. Desai’s appointment is effective Oct. 17. In recent years, the company has been in the spotlight due to a number of strategic moves that have signaled a deeper investment in health care services, including home-based care. […]
Last December, I wrote about the “retail giants ready to disrupt home-based care.” Though confident in my hypothesis that these larger companies – CVS Health (NYSE: CVS), Amazon (Nasdaq: AMZN), Walgreens Boots Alliance (Nasdaq: WBA) and Walmart (NYSE: WMT) – were going to enter further into the home-based care space, I was not under the […]