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Blue Shield of California teams with Cricket Health on kidney care

New long-term, 5-year collaboration between Blue Shield of California and Cricket Health provides personalized, multidisciplinary care for members with chronic kidney disease (CKD) and end-stage renal disease (ESRD) at no extra cost.

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Cricket Health Named to the 2020 CB Insights Digital Health 150

Recognized for achievements in transforming kidney care San Francisco, Calif. (August 13, 2020) — Cricket Health, a comprehensive kidney care provider and care extender, today was named to CB Insights’s second annual Digital Health 150 ranking, which showcases the 150 most promising private digital health companies in the world. The 2020 Digital Health 150 cohort … Continued

August 2020
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Cigna, Cricket Health expand kidney care partnership in California

Cigna will grow its partnership with Cricket Health to offer a multidisciplinary care approach to California members with late-stage chronic kidney disease (CKD)—news that could be quite welcome amid the ongoing coronavirus outbreak.

March 2020
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Trump Calls for Overhaul of Costly Kidney Dialysis Program

Three times a week, hundreds of thousands of Americans with end-stage kidney disease trudge to dialysis centers to get the treatment that keeps them alive. Costs are exorbitant and growing, and many patients aren’t even told there may be other options.

July 2019
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Understanding Trump’s kidney plan, plus an ACA update

Dr. Carmen Peralta, a nationally known kidney expert at UCSF and chief medical officer for Cricket Health, joins Dan Diamond to discuss the historic problems with U.S. kidney care and what Trump’s plan could accomplish (starts at the 1:35 mark).

July 2019
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Trump Proposes Ways to Improve Care for Kidney Disease

The administration set ambitious goals to move people out of traditional dialysis and to encourage organ donations.

July 2019
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Trump aims to shake up kidney care market

Trump’s executive order — slated to be timed to his 11 a.m. speech Wednesday morning — will direct the government to take steps intended to cut the cost of care and increase kidney donations, according to two individuals with knowledge of the announcement.

July 2019
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Blue Cross Blue Shield consortium picks Cricket Health as preferred kidney care provider

May 2019
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How this S.F. startup is taking on chronic kidney disease

Carmen Peralta had spent over a decade researching kidney disease as a nephrologist, most recently at the University of California, San Francisco, when her groundbreaking work on the early detection of the deadly disease caught the attention of Cricket Health.

May 2019
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U.S. seeks to cut dialysis costs with more home care versus clinics

The Trump administration is working on a new payment approach for treating kidney disease that favors lower cost care at home and transplants, a change that would upend a dialysis industry that provides care in thousands of clinics nationwide.

March 2019
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CEO Arvind Rajan Says Cricket Health Can Deliver Important, Transformative Care to Renal Patients

Arvind Rajan left his managing director post at LinkedIn intent upon two things – taking some time off with his family and finding a new venture that would be hard, important, and transformative to the world.

February 2019
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Fierce 15: Cricket Health

Kidney care is often described as a space in healthcare with particular perverse incentives.

January 2019
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Cricket Health locks in $24M to expand its footprint in the kidney care space

The startup, which leverages technology to assist chronic kidney disease and end-stage renal disease patients, has wrapped up a $24 million Series A round led by Oak HC/FT.

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October 2018
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New kidney care companies intend to make money by keeping patients out of the dialysis chair

San Francisco-based Cricket Health only has about a dozen employees. But the tech-enabled kidney care provider has some big ambitions in the next year or so when it comes to disrupting the world of kidney care.

September 2018
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Startup Insider: 3 questions with Cricket Health CEO Arvind Rajan

Since 2016, Cricket Health has provided advanced stage chronic kidney disease patients with technology-enabled home care through its Health Options Patient Education program.

August 2017
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Online platform guides CKD patients through treatment choices and renal failure

The typical chronic kidney disease patient, if diagnosed before renal failure, learns about treatment options in a relatively quick meeting with their nephrologist, or in a one to two-hour class at a dialysis clinic.

June 2017
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Cricket Health CEO talks about helping patients with CKD make more informed choices for care

Cricket Health won the MedCity INVEST Pitch Perfect contest for health IT companies that have raised more than $2 million.

May 2017
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Unlocking the enigma of the activated and engaged patient

In this guest post, Arvind Rajan, co-founder and CEO of a developer of scalable healthcare technology services designed to transform the care and treatment of people with chronic kidney disease (CKD), explains how hospitals and their providers can create a cohesive education strategy that helps eliminate information gaps and creates engaged patients.

February 2017