May 23, 2021Bull or Bear: A Review of the Bright Health S-1Note: this S-1 review was co-written with my friend, Ryan Russell. Stay tuned for more stuff from both of us soon! TL;DR: Bright, which got its start in 2017 as an insurance startup in the individual / MA markets, has quickly cobbled together a mini-version of UHG focused on the…Healthcare27 min readHealthcare27 min read
Oct 10, 2020A Review of the Clover SPACGROWTH * GROWTH * GROWTH or SELL * SELL * SELL? — Clover, one of the Medicare Advantage insurance startups, announced on Tuesday that is going public via a SPAC owned by Chamath Palihapitiya of Facebook-fame at a $3.7 billion valuation. It’s obviously a great exit for everyone associated with Clover, but you’ll have to forgive me if I’m a bit befuddled…Healthcare24 min readHealthcare24 min read
Jan 10, 20202019: Reviewing A Year in Healthcare Innovation Articles2019 marks the second full year I’ve been sending out Kevin’s Weekly Health Tech Reads, a weekly newsletter where I summarize healthcare innovation news each week (sign up here if you’re not already a subscriber), and this merry little band of healthcare innovators has grown from 500 at the beginning…Healthcare13 min readHealthcare13 min read
Oct 10, 2017The Cost Equation for New Primary Care Models in Existing Frameworks (Part II)TL;DR: traditional primary care costs $25 PMPM, new models cost somewhere around $50 — $75 PMPM. For insurers or employers to be interested they probably have to at least breakeven or demonstrate cost savings, so they need to demonstrate $25 — $50 PMPM of cost savings to break even, which…Healthcare18 min readHealthcare18 min read
Oct 10, 2017The Cost Equation for New Primary Care Models in Existing Frameworks (Part I)TL;DR: traditional primary care costs $25 PMPM, new models cost somewhere around $50 — $75 PMPM. For insurers or employers to be interested they probably have to at least breakeven or demonstrate cost savings, so they need to demonstrate $25 — $50 PMPM of cost savings to break even, which…Healthcare14 min readHealthcare14 min read
Aug 21, 2017Health Tech Reads: 8/14Here are the reads I found interesting last week in health tech. I’m going to try moving this over to a email for this coming week and see how that goes (will probably also post here for a bit and see what migrating over to email looks like): News: Oscar…Healthcare3 min readHealthcare3 min read
Aug 11, 2017Health Tech Reads: 8/7Here are some of the reads I’ve found interesting over the past week from my corner of the healthcare world: News: Oak Street Health is now working with Aetna in Chicago for Medicare Advantage members in an arrangement that looks similar to Iora’s partnership with Humana. This type of primary…Healthcare3 min readHealthcare3 min read
Aug 4, 2017Health Tech Reads: Week of 7/31Here’s a few links to some of the interesting articles I’ve been reading in the health tech / insurance space in the past week, along with some random thoughts from the peanut gallery: News: Maven raised an $11 million Series A. I like their approach of being a ‘digital clinic’……Healthcare3 min readHealthcare3 min read
Jul 31, 2017Interesting reads in health tech: 7/24Made it off the Appalachian Trail alive despite days of 95 degree heat and pouring rain! Here’s a few things I found interesting from the shortened week: News: Amazon has a group called 1472 focused on healthcare and just hired an exec from Box who led their healthcare team. Not…Healthcare2 min readHealthcare2 min read
Jul 19, 2017Things I find interesting: Week of 7/17Week 2 of this little side project to keep track of things I’ve been reading & finding interesting in health tech is coming in a little early this week as I’m taking off to hike the Appalachian Trail for a week. More next week! News: Medi-Cal has had one child…Healthcare5 min readHealthcare5 min read
