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emocha Health CEO Urges the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to continue incorporating digital health monitoring programs in 2022
BALTIMORE, September 20, 2021 -- In the most recent proposed Medicare Physician Fee Schedule, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) recognized for the first time a set of CPT codes that will allow healthcare providers to be reimbursed for Remote...
Medication Non-Adherence: An Enormous Challenge with an Untapped Cure That Could Save Billions (Nasdaq)
One root cause for healthcare’s escalating costs and continuing disparities is “medication non-adherence” — a phrase that both masks the issue’s severity and places blame on patients. Studies find that at least 125,000 people die each year from not taking their...
Behind the Debate over the Future of Telehealth Regulation
Following the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, the use of telehealth exploded: rapidly becoming a primary means of providing primary and preventive care. Restrictions on the corporate practice of medicine were temporarily lifted, enabling physicians to deliver care to...
DLA Piper advises emocha Health in US$6.2 million Series A financing
DLA Piper represented emocha Health, a digital health company working to radically improve medication adherence amongst patients with chronic and infectious diseases, in its recently completed US$6.2 million Series A financing. This new investment in emocha will...
Returning to Work Safely
After a year of “traditional” workplace uncertainty, companies nationwide are knee-deep in designing their return-to-work strategies after employees have largely worked from home. With the combination of declining COVID-19 related deaths and infection rates, and...
Johns Hopkins medication adherence spinoff emocha raises $6.2M (MedCity News)
emocha's $6.2 million Series A raise was recently featured in MedCity News, which tracked the company's growth from a Johns Hopkins spinoff focused on public health and infectious disease, to now supporting medication adherence in chronic conditions like asthma and...
Johns Hopkins spinout emocha Health closes $6.2M series A for video-based medication adherence (Fierce Healthcare)
emocha's $6.2 million Series A raise was recently featured in Fierce Healthcare, and emocha CEO Sebastian Seiguer spoke about the continuing challenge of medication adherence. “I find it absolutely mind-blowing that medication non-adherence would continue to exist as...
emocha Health raises $6.2M Series A, plans hiring to ramp up work with health plans (Technical.ly)
Technical.ly featured emocha Health's $6.2 million Series A funding round, which will help the company expand its tech-enabled medication adherence service with health plans and transplant centers. emocha’s trajectory, from a spin out of Johns Hopkins in 2014, "shows...
Claritas invests in drug adherence tool (Nashville Post)
Nashville-based health care private equity firm Claritas Health Ventures led emocha's $6.2 million Series A funding round, the Nashville Post reports. CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield, Kapor Capital, PTX Capital, and TCP Venture Capital were additional backers, and...
emocha Health raises $6M Series A to fuel expansion of team, revenue (Baltimore Business Journal)
Baltimore Business Journal recently highlighted emocha's $6.2 million Series A raise, which will enable the company to expand its team with about 25 new hires in sales, marketing, engineering, and clinical roles. The oversubscribed round was led by Tennessee-based...
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