Aligned Marketplace picks up additional funding to expand advanced primary care, employer partnerships Employers are up against escalating healthcare costs driven by mounting prescription drug expenses and worsening chronic conditions, and companies are bracing for healthcare costs to spike yet agai | ...

A few exciting @alignedmarketplace.bsky.social updates! Thank you Heather Landi and Fierce Healthcare for the excellent write-up
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Who's pushing new features faster than the @SleeperHQ product team?

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WE'RE BACK

*sets calendar invite to text friend in 2031 to assess whether this worked out*

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Nothing is more fun than a Knicks playoff run

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Aligned Marketplace Launches to Make Advanced Primary Care More Accessible to Employers Aligned Marketplace Launches to Make Advanced Primary Care More Accessible to Employers. The company closed a $8 million seed investment co-led by A* Capital and Maverick Ventures

Excited to announce the launch and funding of @AlignedMP

Fortunate to have great team members, customers, provider partners and investors working together to improve the healthcare delivered to the 100M+ insured by large employers

Just getting started!

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Advanced Primary Care: the better way to deliver healthcare and the focal point of Aligned Marketplace A new approach to primary care, Advanced Primary Care, could solve some of America's toughest healthcare problems...but only if enough people can access it. That is why Aligned Marketplace is putting Advanced Primary Care at the center of our business model.

Advanced Primary Care delivers better outcomes and lower costs at scale. That's why we're building a company that makes this care model more accessible for the 100M+ who receive insurance from a self-insured employer

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Thank you to all who tuned in throughout my time on @WhartonPulsePod! Interviewing inspiring healthcare leaders like Todd was an incredible opportunity, and I can't wait to see what next year's new hosts have in store

As Todd describes - Devoted is a 5-part recipe:

1. the MA plan and member support
2. Devoted Health Guide
3. the contracted provider network
4. Devoted Medical
5. Orinoco, proprietary tech platform

Turns out it's expensive to build all of this at once! But it's also paying off

Todd Park, Devoted Health, on building the "American healthcare system as a service" Podcast Episode · The Pulse by Wharton Digital Health · 07/31/2023 · 47m

On my last episode of @WhartonPulsePod, I spoke with Todd Park, founder & Exec. Chairman of @DevotedHealth. We discussed his entrepreneurial journey, his public sector experience, and of course Devoted's rapid success as a best-in-class MA payer/provider

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As a Knicks fan this was picture perfect

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Most importantly, @costplusdrugs can create massive savings for patients. With 2 million members and counting, we're all (besides the PBMs) rooting for @mcuban to expand the CPD offering as far and wide as possible. Thanks for joining us, Mark!

The cost-saving potential here is incredible. The @VUMChealth study Mark mentions found that Medicare switching to @costplusdrugs for 9 urology medications would've saved $1.29 billion of taxpayer money

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Mark alludes to this, but since we recorded, @costplusdrugs announced a partnership to start selling brand-name insulin drugs from @JanssenGlobal. He mentions that CPD considered producing insulin before prices started to fall without their intervention

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Mark Cuban, Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drug Company, on bringing transparency to pharmacy Podcast Episode · The Pulse by Wharton Digital Health · 04/19/2023 · 45m

This was a cool one! On this episode of @WhartonPulsePod, I spoke with @mcuban to chat about @costplusdrugs

We discussed the role pharmacy benefit managers play in high-priced drugs and how Cost Plus has been able to drive down the price so drastically

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Quote from tomorrow's @WhartonPulsePod episode:

"The greatest trick PBMs ever pulled was convincing people they were saving money"

Even @snacks could never

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Giants fans watching Kadarius Toney beat the Eagles

"The report identified UPMC as the biggest player, with exemptions reducing its tax liability to the city by $13.9 million in 2021. And the health care behemoth has long drawn the scrutiny to match.

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When this study came out I was briefly pondering a nonprofit that would take health plan donations to subsidize replacing gas stoves in neighborhoods with the highest rates of asthma exacerbation in Chicago (contribution in IL is 21.1%), then it became a weird new culture war

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Will AI disrupt education? For my last first day of school I present to you the first time I've seen ChatGPT mentioned in a syllabus

We also covered the deep policy roots at @AledadeACO, a team that now includes @dc_cavanaugh, @DrMandyCohen and a number of fmr. @ONC_HealthIT and @CMSGov folks. Of course, no discussion of MSSP policy is complete without a @Travis_Broome twitter thread

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Farzad Mostashari, Aledade, on the power of primary care Podcast Episode · The Pulse by Wharton Digital Health · 01/09/2023 · 37m

On this episode of @WhartonPulsePod, I spoke with @Farzad_MD, CEO of @AledadeACO. We discussed the bet on independent PCPs, how the operational model has driven profitability, and the rigorous, evidence-based eye towards to new investment opportunities

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And there’s not a crunchbase or pitchbook subscription level high enough to answer all my questions about it

There’s a company that hires nurses to do piercings and I’m convinced from the logo that it’s a VC-backed digital health company

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Found the rare person for whom actual rocket science is easier than just not doing things that will incur billions of dollars of FTC fines

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We also discussed a newly-released survey from @omadahealth and the @_DiMeSociety with insights from @Rock_Health. I found the survey of 750+ HC buyers interesting - overall buyers are very optimistic on virtual care as a benefit/offering

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Sean Duffy, Omada, on scaling virtual specialty care Podcast Episode · The Pulse by Wharton Digital Health · 11/07/2022 · 42m

On the latest episode of @WhartonPulsePod, I spoke with @seanduffy, CEO of @omadahealth. We discussed Omada's key strategic decisions, the value of integrated solutions to overcome "point solution fatigue" and how current capital markets impact IPO timing

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Philly today

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