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ValueHealth

ValueHealth is privately-held, nationally trusted surgical healthcare partner and guide to value-based care. Since 1997, they have partnered with over 10,000 physician investors and 20 health system partners to develop lower-cost sites of service, expanding into more than 150 facilities, including physician-owned surgery centers, surgical hospitals and hyper specialty centers. Today, they operate in over 30 states, positioning their Ambulatory Centers of Excellence (ACE)™ to be national leaders in the transition to value-based care.

HQ: Leawood, KS
Leadership: Dan Tasset, CEO
Year Company Founded: 2017
Year of Investment: 2017

NueHealth

NueHealth is a global network of physicians and facilities that is dedicated to transforming healthcare around the world. Our goal is to create a model in which high-quality care becomes more accessible and more affordable while enabling industry professionals to connect directly with patients. We develop and manage innovations in three main areas, including: focused-care facilities, integrated provider networks and benefits administration.

HQ: Leawood, KS
Leadership: Dan Tasset, CEO
Year Company Founded: 1997
Year of Investment: 1997

Muve Health

Muve Health provides a focused collection of surgical and recovery services, including single-fee total joint replacement. With a focus on early mobilization, the start-to-finish outpatient program offers minimally invasive surgical techniques that reduce operation and recovery time for patients. Dedicated physical therapy teams work to ease the transition home and return patients to normal activity as soon as possible.

HQ: Leawood, KS
Leadership: Rod Carbonell, CEO
Year Company Founded: 2015
Year of Investment: 2015

Healthcare Re

Healthcare Re supports independent providers in the transition to value-based care delivery simply by giving them control. With an innovative approach to alternative risk financing, we identify and manage the total cost of a provider’s risk, and then help them build a custom and cost-effective reinsurance solution to meet their unique needs. And by giving control of healthcare-specific risk back to the provider, we pave the way for better coverage, lower premiums and quality outcomes.

HQ: Centerville, UT
Leadership: Charles Kano, CEO
Year Company Founded: 2015
Year of Investment: 2015

Benefit Management

Benefit Management is a progressive third party administrator (TPA) empowering employers, associations, providers and payors with targeted coverage and tailored contracting services. Since 1995, they have built and administered countless health benefit programs and in 2016 began offering value-based administration (VBA) for new reimbursement models. They are responsible for covered lives in all 50 states and are well known for flexibility, innovative services and outstanding customer service.

HQ: Benefit Management
Leadership: Dallas Scrip, President
Year Company Founded: 1995
Year of Investment: 2016

Astoria Healthcare Properties

Astoria Healthcare Properties is a national real estate firm that ensures all client properties are beautifully designed, soundly constructed and efficiently managed. The company is led by experts who know the industry inside and out. They have a deep understanding of the financial environment, know how to work with local committees and political organizations, offer market-driven insights into potential sites, and deliver extensive expertise in design and construction.

HQ: Leawood, KS
Leadership: John Foudray, CEO
Year Company Founded: 2010
Year of Investment: 2010

in2itive Business Solutions

Acquired by Konza Valley Capital, Inc. in 2017

PT Partners

Acquired by Peak Sport and Spine in 2017

IVX Health

IVX Health is a rapidly growing provider of low-cost, consumer-centric infusion centers serving patients on high-cost specialty biologics with diseases such as Rheumatoid Arthritis, Psoriasis, Crohn’s Disease, Ulcerative Colitis, Multiple Sclerosis, severe Asthma, Lupus, and others. The company’s facilities are located in Class A retail settings near where patients live and work, have a medical spa/concierge look and feel, and provide best in class, retail-like administrative services to support patients and referring physicians.

HQ: Brentwood, TN
Leadership:
Doug Ghertner, CEO
William Seibels, CFO
Year Company Founded: 2012
Year of Investment: 2017

Casetabs

Acquired by HST Pathways in 2020

HealthJoy

HealthJoy is an all-in-one cost containment and guidance platform that helps employees make better healthcare decisions. The platform brings together medical professionals, advocates, Rx savings, an artificial intelligence-powered virtual assistant, and more into an easy-to-use app that employees love. HealthJoy works for companies of all size, from 50 to 50,000 employees, both self-funded and fully-insured.

HQ: Chicago, IL
Leadership:
Justin Holland, Co-Founder and CEO
Doug Morse-Schindler, Co-Founder and President
Year Company Founded: 2014
Year of Investment: 2018

Axiom Regenerative Therapies

Axiom Regenerative Therapies is a stem cell therapy company that empowers clinicians with an evidence-based regenerative medicine program. Axiom brings leading science to autologous cellular therapies for Platelet-Rich Plasma, Alpha2 Macroglobulin, Amniotic Fluid, Bone Marrow and Adipose tissue stem cells. This turnkey program arms physicians with the most advance protocols in biotechnologies, a National Patient Registry and Digital Patient Care. Axiom helps navigate the uncertain FDA regulatory waters through the risks and rewards of next-generation, cell-enhanced ortho/spine surgery and pain management.

HQ: Orlando, FL
Leadership:
Dr. Al Sperry, Chairman
Blake Petrunick, CEO
Brandon Cusick, COO
Year Founded: 2016
Year of Investment: 2016

Spinal Simplicity

Spinal Simplicity is a revenue stage medical device company focused on the design, development, and commercialization of innovative spinal and orthopedic implants. Spinal Simplicity is dedicated to providing minimally invasive spinal and orthopedic tools that significantly improve patient outcomes.

HQ: Overland Park, KS
Leadership: Todd Moseley, CEO
Year Company Founded: 2008
Year of Investment: 2018

Triggr Health

Acquired by SonarMD in 2019

kēlaHealth

KēlaHealth is a software platform that combines predictive algorithms with high-impact interventions to reduce surgical complications. We use millions of data points to inform each patient’s comprehensive risk profile, then recommend the best interventions to mitigate those risks. By following every surgical journey end-to-end, from prediction and action to outcomes, we continuously improve and inform the surgical quality ecosystem.

HQ: San Francisco, CA
Leadership: Bora Chang, MD
Year Company Founded: 2016
Year of Investment: 2019

Healium

Healium by StoryUP is the world’s first virtual and augmented reality channel powered by brainwaves and heart rate. It allows the user to see their emotions control virtual worlds with their smart watch or brain-sensing headband. In peer-reviewed journals, StoryUP’s patented technology has been shown to reduce anxiety and increase feelings of positivity in as little as four minutes. Healium kits are used worldwide in areas of situational stress.

WellBrain

WellBrain enables physicians and hospital systems to use evidence based non-opiate modalities such as mindfulness and other solutions in a B2B2C software-as-a-service model. Providers use iPads for tracking various inputs on patient’s health, movement, depression and anxiety and other factors to provide custom treatments or guided meditations in a physician tracked app for patients to use at home on smartphones.

MedZero

MedZero is a new employee benefit providing instant 0% loans for families throughout the U.S. who are struggling to pay their healthcare bills. Employees can make payments ranging from $100 to $5,000 for medical, dental, vision, and pharmaceutical needs. MedZERO loans are repaid over 6 to 12 months through payroll deductions, and savings of up to 30% are achieved by maximizing the use of health savings accounts.

Spoke Health

Spoke Health helps healthcare organizations deploy and scale new care and payment models to tackle high cost care episodes from “ouch” to “outcome.” The Spoke technology platform powers a healthcare marketplace for high quality, low cost care that significantly reduces medical and administrative costs, enables cost transparency and improves consumer health, satisfaction and peace of mind.

BrainCheck

BrainCheck is modernizing and democratizing neurocognitive testing to help people of all ages understand what’s happening in their brain. The company offers tablet and web-based cognitive diagnostic aids to physicians and health systems, allowing physicians, including PCPs, to provide highest quality, reliable cognitive care with favorable reimbursement.

TheraWe Connect

Acquired by Rethink First in 2020

CareSignal

CareSignal provides patient engagement and monitoring tools to identify patients whose health is worsening in the community. Their standardized, evidence-based SMS text messages and IVR phone calls collect patient symptoms for 24 chronic and behavioral health conditions, while advanced algorithms risk stratify patient-reported data to identify at-risk patients. Clinical teams receive alerts for at-risk patients, providing actionable data that enables proactive care to improve health outcomes and prevent avoidable emergency department visits.

Moving Analytics

Cardiovascular disease is one of the leading causes of death in the country yet participation and completion rates in cardiac rehab is low. Lack of participation is proven to result in increased hospitalizations and early death. Moving Analytics is an evidence-based, structured, digital cardiac rehab program that is proven to show the same outcomes as traditional facilities at 3x higher participation rates.

Sickweather

Sickweather knows where sick people are and where they will be up to 15 weeks in advance. Their patented social listening technology detects illness trends in real-time at a hyper local level, in over 120 countries. That data is then modeled into 15-week forecasts and a threat level index call the SickScore.

Patheous Health

Patheous Health is building a new direction in feeding healthcare. Their growth is based on diagnostic and therapeutic innovations that improve outcomes, lower cost and ensure that providers and patients have access to care.

HQ: Leawood, KS
Leadership:
Michael Peck, Founder and CEO
Correy Trupp, COO
Year Company Founded: 2019
Year of Investment: 2020

Homebase

Homebase works with property owners and managers of apartments or student housing to create the ultimate smart living resident experience. It enables building-wide Wi-Fi connectivity, smart access control, and other smart building systems as a managed service.

HQ: Kansas City, MO
Leadership:
Blake Miller, Founder and CEO
Year of Investment: 2020

Dwolla

Dwolla’s APIs enable businesses to programmatically send and receive funds. They facilitate the movement of hundreds of millions of dollars every day with low transaction costs, easy automation, and near-perfect reliability.

HQ: Des Moines, IA
Leadership:
Brady Harris, CEO
Year Company Founded: 2008
Year of Investment: 2020