AMAZON: Healthcare Pivot

Posted on March 10, 2025 by Dr. David Edward Marcinko MBA MEd CMP™

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Amazon’s Healthcare Pivot

During the January 2025 J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference, Teladoc’s executives announced the company has partnered with Amazon Health Services, joining its Health Benefits Connector program. The program was rolled out in January 2024 and connects Amazon customers with virtual care benefits covered by their insurance plan or employer; if eligible, customers are able to apply to join the program(s).

Teladoc is the fifth company to join Amazon’s Health Benefits Connector program (formerly known as Health Conditions Programs), along with digital physical therapy company Hinge Health; chronic condition management company Omada; online therapy and mental health firm Rula; and behavioral healthcare provider Talkspace. (Read more…) 

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DAILY UPDATE: Larry Ellison, Estate Planning, Female VCs, Health Costs as Markets Finish Flat

Posted on September 18, 2024 by Dr. David Edward Marcinko MBA MEd CMP™

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Oracle Chairman Larry Ellison became the world’s second-richest person yesterday, pulling past Amazon founder Jeff Bezos as the software company’s stock surged. Elon Musk still sits at No. 1, per Forbes.

Read: Estate planning lawyers are sleeping easy. Read about how rich Americans are prepping for potential estate tax changes ahead of the election. (the Wall Street Journal)

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What’s up

  • Intel can’t stop, won’t stop: It rose 2.68% after announcing it will break its foundry business into a separate entity, which should go a long way to helping out the struggling chip maker.
  • Microsoft rose a tepid 0.88%, in spite of positive news: The company is raising its dividend and kicking off a new share repurchasing program.
  • Hewlett Packard Enterprise rounded out the old-school tech giants breaking to the upside, rising 5.69% after Bank of America analysts upgraded the stock from “Neutral” to “Buy.”
  • Flutter Entertainment, parent company of sports bettor FanDuel, popped 3.32% on the news that it’s buying Italian gambling company Snaitech S.A.
  • Gannett Co. soared 18.74% thanks to an upgrade of the newspaper company from “Sell” to “Neutral” by Citi analysts.

What’s down

  • Philip Morris International tumbled 2.14% after the tobacco titan sold its asthma inhaler maker Vectura Group for $198 million.
  • Accenture sank 4.85% on the news that it will push promotions back from June all the way to December, implying cash flow problems for the consulting giant.
  • Cigna fell 2.86% after Express Scripts, the healthcare giant’s pharmacy-benefits unit, sued the FTC over a recent drug pricing report.
  • Trump Media & Technology Group dropped 6.60% after a judge ruled that the company must award one of its investors a large chunk of the stock in exchange for helping it go public.

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Here’s where the major benchmarks ended:

  • The SPX added 1.49 points (0.03%) to 5,634.58; the Dow Jones Industrial Average® ($DJI) fell 15.90 points (–0.04%) to 41,606.18; the NASDAQ Composite® ($COMP) rose 35.93 points (0.20%) to 17,628.06.
  • The 10-year Treasury note yield (TNX) rose two basis points to 3.64%, near the lower end of its recent range.
  • The CBOE Volatility Index® (VIX) climbed to 17.74, its highest in nearly a week.

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Health benefit costs are soaring for employers, with over half of respondents saying they will need to make cost-cutting changes for next year: what employers are expecting.

Rethink Impact, a venture capital firm investing in female-led tech companies, has raised $250 million.

Employer Direct Healthcare is rebranding as Lantern and making a play in the infusion care space. The company also bolstered its clinical team, nabbing former execs at Teladoc and Hinge Health.

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DAILY UPDATE: Telehealth and the RealPage

Posted on August 25, 2024 by Dr. David Edward Marcinko MBA MEd CMP™

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Telehealth has taken more hits lately than a piñata at a birthday party. For example:

In April, UnitedHealth Group announced it was shutting down its Optum Virtual Care program. Days later, Walmart announced it would shutter both Walmart Health and Walmart Health Virtual Care.

And in July, Teladoc posted a net loss of $838 million in Q2. The drop was largely driven by an impairment charge of ~$800 million for BetterHelp, the virtual mental health platform it acquired in 2015, Fierce Healthcare reported. Executives attributed the decline to increased customer acquisition costs, among other factors.

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  • The Justice Department and the attorneys general of eight states sued RealPage, an apartment-pricing tool widely used by corporate landlords, alleging that it lowers competition by allowing property owners to coordinate higher rents.

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Visualize: How private equity tangled banks in a web of debt, from the Financial Times.

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