With IPO Talk, Telehealth Buy, Startup’s Future May Be Bright With Chart: Bright Health’s Membership, at a Glance

April 16

After 2020 proved to be a banner year for initial public offerings, three separate startup health insurers — Alignment Healthcare, Clover Health and Oscar Health — rode the wave and launched IPOs in the early months of 2021. Now, Bright Health Inc. is reportedly poised to become the fourth insurer to do so, and in the meantime has picked up a telehealth asset for good measure.

Industry experts tell AIS Health that while many aspects of Bright Health’s business will become clearer if it does end up trading publicly, the company so far looks more likely than some of its fellow startups to succeed.

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Leslie Small

Leslie has been working in journalism since 2009 and reporting on the health care industry since 2014. She has covered the many ups and downs of the Affordable Care Act exchanges, the failed health insurer mega-mergers, and hundreds of other storylines spanning subjects such as Medicaid managed care, Medicare Advantage, employer-sponsored insurance, and prescription drug coverage. As the managing editor of Health Plan Weekly and Radar on Drug Benefits, she writes and edits for both publications while overseeing a small team of reporters who also focus on the managed care sector. Before joining AIS Health, she was a senior editor for the e-newsletter Fierce Health Payer, and she started her career as a copy editor at multiple local newspapers. She graduated with a dual degree in journalism and political science from Penn State University.

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