Medicare Advantage

The insurtech startup announced $500 million in new funding just a few months ago.

Putting into practice lessons learned from a toothpaste challenge, Renown Health was able to increase Medicare Advantage membership 4 percent by using data, analytics and outreach to get to know its consumer.

Also: Bright.md worked with Ozers and providers from Kaiser Permanente on anxiety and depression platform; MobileSmith Health teams up with Isabel Healthcare on pediatrics app. 

Along with new deals with BCBS, Humana and Logisticare, the rideshare service is also adding automated calls and other senior-friendly features to its web-based Concierge platform.

The Greenoaks Capital-led round is expected to close within the next couple of weeks.

On its fourth quarter earnings call, Teladoc reported increases in total visits, utilization, and revenues, but also in net loss.

Bethesda, Maryland-based Aledade, which partners with primary care physicians to create tech-enabled accountable care organizations, has raised $20 million in a round led by Biomatics Capital, GV and Maryland Venture Fund.

Omada Health, the digital health company that's created a remote, digital version of the Diabetes Prevention Program, has released data from a cohort of 500 Medicare Advantage beneficiaries with an average age of 70.

Video doctor visits have the potential to help many different kinds of patients, but elderly patients, who are sometimes homebound or have trouble driving, would seem like a natural fit -- including the more than 50 million Americans on Medicare.

A connected weight scale from AMC Health.