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TEFCA, interesting reports, aging stuff.
Healthcare through a Kentucky lens. Yeah, it's niche. But neat!
Andrew Steen
August 12, 2025
🎡💦 🍩. That’s right, it’s Fair time.
TEFCA
It’s an acronym, look it up.
The healthcare organizations that went live with TEFCA in July include Baptist Health.
Oak HC/FT short read.
“For healthcare founders selling into payors, in the very near-term, tightening budgets can mean stalled sales cycles.” Interesting.
ICHRA
Also an acronym.
This piece by Claire Trautz is excellent.
Elion raise.
I pay attention to Elion’s stuff, so cool for them, but two things of interest:
Cedars Sinai Health Ventures participated.
But especially Scrub Capital. Among others, “made up of over 800 physicians, nurses and frontline clinicians.” That is cool.
Pretty sure there’s at least one physician from the Commonwealth—in Paducah, to be exact—active with Scrub Capital. More would be good!
Senior living technology platform.
Launched in 2020, August Health is an EHR platform used by senior living operators.
Doesn’t Louisville have the expertise to build in this space?
While we’re on AgeTech…
Kentucky-based agetech startups, heads up.
Also on aging…
Aging Life Care Association® Midwest Chapter Conference 2025 will basically be in Louisville.
There’s a pre-conference session and tour at the Thrive Center, as well.
One in every four adults is a caregiver.
Interesting data in the report.
Also interesting—Louisville-based Lifequipt, targeting the caregiver space.
2025 Midwest Startups Rankings
What do y’all think?
Carta data.
Saw some numbers RE: H1 startup funding for local companies. Made me think of this; “According to Carta data, the median Series A funding round in the first quarter of 2025 was $7.9 million.” I’m sure they have a seed figure, too, I just didn’t look.
Audi 5000.