Tag: AxelaCare Health Solutions

EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn. - OptumRx's recent purchase of AxelaCare Health Solutions, a home infusion services provider, points to a larger trend of both pharmacy benefit managers and payers bringing other services under their umbrellas, analysts say.“This is the changing landscape in health care,” said Justin Ishbia, founder and managing partner of Shore Capital Partners, a private equity firm that used to own SCP Specialty Infusion. “They are the payer but they are also the provider...

EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn. - OptumRx's recent purchase of home infusion services provider AxelaCare Health Solutions gives the pharmacy benefit manager a platform for a more integrated model, say analysts.“OptumRx already has a specialty component and this gives them the infusion component, as well,” said Reg Blackburn, managing director of specialty pharmacy and infusion services for The Braff Group.OptumRx is part of healthcare giant UnitedHealth Group. Other buys by the company this year...

CHICAGO - SCP Specialty Infusion wasn't looking for a buyer, but when the team at AxelaCare Health Solutions approached the company, the potential for growth was clear.“With their dynamic growth and our footprint we thought that 1+1=3,” said Justin Ishbia, founder and managing partner of SCP's parent company Shore Capital Partners.SCP Specialty Infusion launched in 2010 when Shore Capital Partners acquired Sirona Infusion as a platform. It now covers seven western states. Lenexa, Kan.-based...

LENEXA, Kan. - AxelaCare Health Solutions, a specialty home infusion services provider, has acquired SCP Specialty Infusion, the parent company of Sirona Infusion, which provides acute home infusion, the company announced Nov. 5. The buy doubles AxelaCare's number of pharmacies, according to a release. “We are excited that Chris (York), an industry leader in home infusion, and his team at Sirona are joining us to build a 'best in class' home infusion company,” stated Ted Kramm, AxelaCare...