The DINO Rollup

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The DINOs keep rolling up with other DINOs to make bigger DINOs. Will it work?

Everside Health was formed out of a merger between three primary care groups. They were supposedly a DPC company. Google says Everside Health is a direct primary care (DPC) provider that offers primary care services to employers, unions, and other organizations. They were supposed to go public three years ago even though they lost $23 million the prior two years. You can read about it here. I don’t see that they ever did go public on the stock exchange, though. That’s weird.

Now there is news that Everside Health is merging with Marathon Health to create advanced primary care. You have to love how they create new terms to make themselves look better. How advanced are they? Not sure. They don’t really say. Here is the article:

Everside Health and Marathon Health Announce Merger to Meet Accelerating Employer Demand for Advanced Primary Care Services

What’s funny is that I don’t see anything about Direct Primary Care in this press release. Uh oh.

Did they roll themselves up in so many mergers that DPC is no longer important?

If you know any more information that I am missing please update me here because all I keep hearing in my head is the Limp Bizkit hook:

Keep rollin’, rollin’, rollin’, rollin’ (uh)
Keep rollin’, rollin’, rollin’, rollin’ (what?)
Keep rollin’, rollin’, rollin’, rollin’ (uh)
Keep rollin’, rollin’, rollin’, rollin’

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About Douglas Farrago, MD

Dr. Farrago is a retired family physician based in Forest, Virginia. Since 2021, he has run DPCnews.com, a leading resource for the Direct Primary Care (DPC) movement. He is the author of three best-selling books on Direct Primary Care: The Official Guide to Starting Your Own Direct Primary Care Practice The Direct Primary Care Doctor’s Daily Motivational Journal Slowing the Churn in Direct Primary Care (While Also Keeping Your Sanity) In 2016, Dr. Farrago conceived the idea for the Direct Primary Care Alliance and co-founded the organization alongside other pioneering DPC physicians. He is widely recognized as a leading expert in the DPC model and frequently lectures to medical students, residents, and practicing physicians on how to successfully start and run their own DPC practices.Dr. Farrago sold his Direct Primary Care practice in October 2020 but continues to receive care there as a patient.