FUTURE OF HEALTHCARE
Veritas Capital | August 08, 2022
Veritas Capital a leading technology and government investor with deep healthcare expertise, announced that an affiliate of Veritas completed the combination of two complementary revenue cycle management businesses: Coronis Health and MiraMed Global Services. The combination creates a scaled RCM platform providing end-to-end technology-enabled solutions to a diverse set of healthcare providers across the U.S. The newly combined company benefits from meaningfully increased scale, end-to-end RCM capabilities across multiple specialties, and robust infrastructure with over 8,500 employees globally.
The combined company will be led by Coronis CEO Stephen Grubbs. MiraMed’s founder and CEO Tony Mira will serve as Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors.
Veritas has a proven track record of driving growth for companies within the healthcare technology market. The firm brings a culture of intense customer focus and accelerating growth through investment in R&D and product innovation.
Coronis is a leading provider of end-to-end RCM solutions to U.S. healthcare providers including primary and specialty physician practices, anesthesia groups, laboratories, emergency medical services, behavioral health centers, FQHCs, and hospitals. Since its founding in 2015, Coronis has rapidly become an industry leader with an emphasis on quality, transparency, and customer satisfaction. Coronis’ solutions address the full RCM continuum for a patient’s journey, allowing clients to focus on delivering high quality patient care to communities they serve. Veritas acquired Coronis from 424 Capital and other minority shareholders.
Founded by Tony and Sue Mira in 1979, MiraMed is a leading provider of end-to-end RCM and business process outsourcing services for anesthesia practices and commercial healthcare clients in the U.S. MiraMed delivers medical coding, billing, and receivables management solutions to regional anesthesia-focused physician practices and other commercial healthcare clients, supported by a highly strategic hybrid onshore/offshore delivery model. Veritas acquired MiraMed from the Mira family, who will retain an ownership position in the combined company.
“This combination brings together two highly complementary businesses with a shared mission to improve operations for healthcare providers across the U.S. Coronis’ end-to-end RCM solutions paired with MiraMed’s expertise and global infrastructure creates a robust platform for growth in a highly fragmented market. We look forward to leveraging our expertise in healthcare technology to support the combined company and, in partnership with management, deliver innovative technology-based solutions to ensure the continued success of the company’s healthcare provider clients.”
Ramzi Musallam, CEO and Managing Partner of Veritas Capital
“We are thrilled to partner with Veritas Capital through this combination, which will better position us to help our clients focus on providing what’s most important – the absolute best patient care,” said Mr. Grubbs, CEO of Coronis. “MiraMed has a terrific team and value proposition, and we are confident that, with a larger platform and enhanced resources provided by Veritas, the combined company is poised for continued organic and inorganic growth to benefit our clients, employees, and partners."
“Our family built MiraMed to serve the growing needs of our healthcare clients and their patients. By combining with Coronis, we created a new company with the scale, resources, and global infrastructure to provide an expanded set of solutions to our clients,” said Tony Mira, founder and CEO of MiraMed. “Together, we will expand our operational footprint to serve clients across various specialties and make investments in technology to enhance operations for our clients across the healthcare industry. I look forward to working with the talented team at Coronis, as well as Veritas, as we embark on this next chapter.”
“Our investment in Coronis and partnership with Stephen and the entire management team firmly established how our playbook can create value in the healthcare technology sector,” said 424 Capital Managing Partner Walter Beinecke. “We welcome Veritas as the new stewards of Coronis and wish the team continued success.”
Latham & Watkins LLP served as legal counsel to Veritas. Lincoln International LLC and TripleTree LLC served as financial advisors to Veritas. Guggenheim Securities LLC served as lead financial advisor and Whiteman Osterman & Hanna LLP served as legal counsel to Coronis. Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP served as legal counsel to MiraMed.
About Veritas Capital
Veritas is a longstanding technology investor with a focus on companies operating at the intersection of technology and government. The firm invests in companies that provide critical products, software, and services, primarily technology and technology-enabled solutions, to government and commercial customers worldwide. Veritas seeks to create value by strategically transforming the companies in which it invests through organic and inorganic means.
Leveraging technology to make a positive impact across vitally important areas, such as healthcare, education, and national security, is core to Veritas. We are proud stewards of national assets, improving the quality of healthcare while reducing cost, advancing our educational system, and protecting our nation and allies.
About Coronis Health
Coronis is a leading provider of end-to-end RCM solutions to U.S. healthcare providers including primary and specialty physician practices, laboratories, and hospitals. By using industry-leading technology combined with high-touch relationship building, Coronis Health allows healthcare practitioners to focus on patient care.
About MiraMed Global Services
MiraMed is a leading provider of end-to-end RCM and Business Process Outsourcing services for anesthesia practices and commercial healthcare clients in the U.S. MiraMed partners with physician practices, hospitals, health networks, and related industry service organizations to provide a broad portfolio of solutions to streamline operations, improve productivity and ensure compliance.
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HEALTH TECHNOLOGY
Innovaccer Inc., | August 05, 2022
Innovaccer Inc., the Health Cloud company, announced the expansion of its Solution Suite for ACO REACH participants. With its ACO REACH Solution Suite, Innovaccer has taken its entire portfolio of solutions that several leading ACOs across the country use, to help New Entrant ACOs and High Needs Population ACOs accelerate their transformation and advance health equity.
Since the initial launch of the ACO REACH Solution Suite in April, Innovaccer has rapidly expanded its client base to include new entrants such as UpStream, Florence Health, and many more organizations that are accelerating their transformation to value-based care. These organizations are leveraging Innovaccer’s end-to-end technology platform to build a unified data foundation, develop population health management strategies, and better engage physicians and patients.
For example, UpStream chose Innovaccer as their technology partner to get a 360-degree patient view that provides actionable insights at the point of care to help improve outcomes, employ advanced analytics to assess and predict health risks to help keep patients out of the hospital, and use clinically contextual patient engagement throughout the care continuum to help improve chronic care management and the overall patient experience.
“Traditionally, many practices don’t have the experience or resources to take on the financial risks associated with value-based care models, especially for older, higher-risk populations,” said Lucas Sahm, chief information officer at UpStream. “UpStream is deeply rooted in data, which makes partnering with Innovaccer a logical step for us because we speak the same language and have the same goal: to connect, curate, and make better use of healthcare data to improve patient outcomes, improve the patient experience, while also improving financial outcomes for providers.”
Innovaccer’s ACO REACH Solution Suite brings technology and services together to help providers jump-start and excel at this new value-based model: the Innovaccer Health Cloud’s Data Activation Platform, Innovaccer’s industry-leading population health management solution, Innovaccer’s world-class population health analytics; and Innovaccer’s comprehensive SDoH solution for identifying, understanding, and mitigating social determinants—an absolute essential for supporting health equity, access to care, and community health.
“Through ACO REACH, the CMS is paving the way for provider organizations to advance health equity through value-based care. To succeed with this new program, they need the right people, processes, and technologies to help develop, implement, and optimize their shared savings strategies. As a technology-enabled service, our enhanced ACO REACH Solutions Suite enables providers to identify and address SDoH factors, reach vulnerable populations with remote patient monitoring, identify relevant care gaps and utilization trends, predict obstacles, and assist providers and patients in optimizing outcomes. We’ve strived to include everything a provider could need in a technology-enabled solution to succeed as a REACH ACO.”
Abhinav Shashank, cofounder and CEO at Innovaccer
Innovaccer has a proven history of helping health organizations succeed under risk-bearing, value-based care models. Reach out to an Innovaccer representative today to get a demo of the Innovaccer® Health Cloud’s Data Activation Platform or to find out how we are helping provider partners like you with the tools they need to reach underserved patients, identify and address SDoH, and progress in the movement toward health equity. For more information, please visit https://innovaccer.com/accelerators/aco-reach.
About Innovaccer
Innovaccer Inc., the Health Cloud company, is dedicated to accelerating innovation in healthcare. The Innovaccer® Health Cloud unifies patient data across systems and care settings, and empowers healthcare organizations to develop scalable, modern applications that improve clinical, financial, and operational outcomes. Innovaccer’s solutions have been deployed across more than 1,600 care settings in the U.S., enabling more than 96,000 providers to transform care delivery and work collaboratively with payers and life sciences companies. Innovaccer has helped its customers unify health records for more than 39 million people and generate over $1B in cumulative cost savings. Innovaccer is the #1 rated Data and Analytics Platform by KLAS, and the #1 rated population health technology platform by Black Book.
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HEALTH TECHNOLOGY
Avail Medsystems | August 05, 2022
Avail, the digital hub of the operating room enabling the medical technology and healthcare industries to work smarter to advance patient care, announced the addition of a 50th MedTech organization to its telepresence network. With the signing of this contract, the Avail platform is poised to enable hundreds of thousands of people to collaborate, educate, and share surgical and MedTech expertise between operating rooms and remote locations in real time.
"The Avail platform was built to connect the MedTech industry more frequently, efficiently and seamlessly to surgeons and interventionalists, enabling them to work together more closely to advance medicine. With this exciting milestone, the digital evolution of MedTech is well underway. Many of our MedTech partners are integrating Avail into their daily processes to expand the productivity and reach of their commercial teams, thus helping representatives to better engage with customers and support their success."
Daniel Hawkins, CEO of Avail
For some of the world's largest and most respected MedTech companies specializing in devices for neurosurgery, interventional cardiology, interventional radiology, vascular surgery, and orthopedic surgery, among others — Avail has positively changed business practices in myriad ways. These include enabling faster product training and expanded reach for field teams, dramatically increasing the time they have available to sell products and support live procedures. In addition, MedTech companies and surgeons have realized the mutual benefits of using Avail to collaborate during unplanned cases when field representatives are unable to reach remote locations to join in person. With skyrocketing travel costs and staff shortages, Avail's approach to collaboration has allowed physician education and product launch programs not only to continue, but to operate more efficiently and rapidly. Other uses include enabling the acceleration of product innovation by allowing engineering and R&D teams to better connect with providers.
"As far as technology goes, the Avail experience has completely raised the bar for our Professional Education Programs — Avail makes us look good," stated John Vogrin, Senior Manager, Surgical Care Services for Cochlear Americas. "But more importantly, using Avail has allowed Cochlear to reduce travel for members of our sales team and give them back countless hours of their personal lives while improving the training experience and shortening the time it takes to complete. It's a win-win-win-win for our company, employees, customers, and their patients."
Avail's footprint of consistent, purpose-built hardware in procedure rooms, along with integrated software created for that hardware, serves as the foundation of the company's surgical telepresence platform. The mobile Avail console includes edge-based computing and a large display monitor and is connected securely to the cloud to stream high-quality audio, video, and surgical imaging to remote participants in a HIPAA-HITECH protected environment.
"Future-forward MedTech companies and healthcare systems not only need better, faster means of collaboration, but they want a way to share their own software capabilities to and from the OR," stated James Domine, CTO of Avail. "Avail's consistent hardware footprint provides eyes and ears into the operating room and will also enable the sharing of applicable third-party software capabilities, including AI and machine learning, which can be displayed on the large Avail console monitor to further elevate the collaborative experience. This can help improve processes and speed the adoption of new products that better meet the changing healthcare environment."
News of the 50th MedTech contract follows Avail's recent announcements of another company expansion and a partnership with the Stroke Thrombectomy and Aneurysm Registry (STAR), which enables participating neurosurgeons to collaborate and share expertise, regardless of their locations.
About Avail Medsystems
Avail enables the MedTech industry and healthcare providers to work together more often and more efficiently, harnessing expertise and technology in and out of the OR to accelerate the innovation, adoption, and reach of tools and techniques to improve patient care. Avail does this by placing a consistent, mobile, hardware platform with integrated software into operating rooms, audibly and visually connecting remote participants and serving as the hub for advanced digital capabilities including AI and machine learning, in a secure cloud-based digital telepresence network. Today, 50 MedTech organizations have contracted with Avail to rethink commercial models, reduce inefficiencies, and enhance the reach and timeliness of collaboration. Avail was founded in 2017 by MedTech veterans with a vision to leverage Silicon Valley technology expertise to evolve the industry and enable MedTech and healthcare to deliver the best care possible. Avail.io
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