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Health insurer Humana is using its cash to shape the future of healthcare outside of hospitals.
Humana has invested in home-healthcare companies such as DispatchHealth, Heal, and Kindred at Home.
It s also helping clinic upstarts such as Iora Health, ChenMed, and Oak Street Health expand.
About seven years ago, Humana approached Iora Health, a primary-care startup in Boston, with a proposition.
Humana wanted to help Iora enter new markets. It would provide the money to build out medical clinics, and Iora would staff them and pay Humana back, typically over 10 years.