UnitedHealth subsidiary Ingenix has signed a deal to acquire NWH, a New York-based company specializing in "real-time Internet connections" between healthcare companies, for $52.4 million. NWH reported $18.9 million in revenue and net income of $942,000 last year. A UnitedHealth spokesman said the merger will increase efficiency, and allow the insurer to reimburse physicians more quickly. The move comes on the same week that a report listed the insurer as among the slowest to respond to claims.
- see this article [1] from the Minneapolis Business Journal
PLUS: McKesson has acquired patient billing software vendor HealthCom Partners. Article [2]
Links:
[1] http://twincities.bizjournals.com/twincities/stories/2006/05/22/daily38.html
[2] http://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/stories/2006/05/22/daily45.html