Payvider: The Blurring Of The Lines Between Payer And Provider In Digital Health Deals

Hosted by the Health Plan Alliance, I was joined by Ken Barrette, Managing Director of Health Care at Alvarez and Marsal, and Marshall Votta, Operating Partner at Nautic Partners, to discuss the unique opportunities that provider-owned health plans are seeing in becoming players in the tech-enabled provider space as plans are shedding their historic roles of risk bearer and aggregator to embrace value-based care and make the necessary investments and innovation needed to succeed in that world.

The […]

By | October 26th, 2021 ||

Health Care Providers: Considerations With Green Bonds Issuance

As “Green Bond” designations become more prevalent in the public finance market, many health care providers are asking: Are Green Bonds Right for Me?  Not all transactions are able to achieve designation as Green Bonds, because the need to finance particular assets —  or refund them —  may extend to assets that do not meet the requirements for designation.  However, there are a few considerations:

Without respect to any pricing benefit, bonds designated as Green Bonds may help […]

By | October 19th, 2021 ||

Digital Health Apps Must Allow Users To Delete Accounts, Per New Apple App Store Rules

The regulatory scrutiny on telemedicine and digital health companies continues to tighten, whether it is privacy warning shots, new direct-to-consumer (DTC) advertising limits, a wave of reimbursement audits, or multistate DOJ investigations. Now, any company that wants to be listed on Apple’s App Store must give users the ability to delete their account.

Apple just announced all apps that allow for a user to create an account must also give that user the ability to delete their account from within the […]

By | October 12th, 2021 ||