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In brief
Amino is a healthcare transparency company that connects everyone to better, more affordable care. Only Amino’s data covers nearly every doctor in America and billions in healthcare spending. Amino’s free consumer products deliver personalized results to help people easily estimate their costs and book appointments with doctors, hospitals, and imaging centers. Additionally, employers, providers, and other industry leaders rely on Amino to create a more efficient healthcare marketplace with higher quality, lower cost, and more convenient care for everyone. The company is based in San Francisco and is backed by Accel, CRV, Highland Capital Management, Rock Health, and notable individual investors.
Contact us at press@amino.com.
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Press releases
- 4/4/2017
- Amino Raises $25 Million Series C Round Led by Highland Capital to Achieve Higher Quality, Lower Cost Healthcare for All Americans
- 7/12/2016
- Amino Unveils Free Personalized Cost Estimates for Nearly 50 Medical Procedures to Help Americans Navigate Health Care Costs
- 5/9/2016
- Amino Approved by Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to Define Health Care Quality Measures That Help Consumers Make Informed Decisions
- 12/16/2015
- Amino to Become the First Company to Receive National, Physician-Level Medicare Claims Data as Part of CMS’s Qualified Entity Program
- 10/20/2016
- Amino Launches to Empower People to Make Confident Decisions About Their Health Care, Powered by Unprecedented Database and $19.4 Million in Venture Capital Funding
Recent news
- 2/16/17 · San Francisco Chronicle
- The most common ways people get injured based on where they live
- 2/16/2017 · Shape
- The Weirdest, Most Common Injuries Per State
- 2/13/2017 · Mental Floss
- How people get hurt in all 50 states
- 2/12/2017 · Miami News Times
- Head Injuries are Disproportionately Common in Florida Which Explains A Lot
- 2/11/2017 · 98.3 Kiss FM
- The Most Common Injury in Colorado is…
- 2/10/2017 · NBC News
- Where You Get Hurt May Depend on What State You’re In
- 2/9/2017 · Mother Jones
- Map of the Day: How We Get Hurt
- 2/9/2017 · Fortune
- Check Out This Map of the Most Distinctive Injuries in Each State
- 2/9/2017 · STAT
- What injury is unusually common in your state?
- 2/9/2017 · ScienceMag
- From insect bites to broken ankles: See your state’s most unusually ‘common’ injury
- 2/9/2017 · Tonic
- New Yorkers Brawl and Kentuckians Fall: How America Gets Hurt, State by State
- 1/27/2017 · CNBC
- Obamacare or not, these start-ups can help you be a better health consumer
- 1/23/2017 · Teen Vogue
- An IUD Will Cost More Than $1000 If the Affordable Care Act Is Repealed
- 1/19/2017 · Slate
- IUDs and Mammograms Are Free Under Obamacare. How Much Will You Pay if It’s Repealed?
- 1/14/2017 · Bustle
- An IUD Once Cost Me $1,000 — Here’s How That Could Be Many Women’s Reality If Obamacare Is Repealed
- 12/12/2016 · CheddarTV
- Amino’s David Vivero Tells Us How to Get a Healthy Start in 2017
- 12/4/2016 · Business Insider
- Here’s how much an IUD costs with Obamacare — and without
- 11/23/2016 · Vice’s Tonic
- It’s Basically Black Friday for IUDs
- 11/17/2016 · Yahoo!
- Will Vasectomy Rates Spike After Trump Victory?
- 11/17/2016 · Consumer Reports
- How to Get High-Quality, Low-Cost Healthcare
- 10/25/2016 · Shape
- This Is the *Real* Reason It’s So Hard to Get an Appointment with Your Ob-Gyn
- 11/2/2016 · Clark
- Shopping around for MRIs, CT scans, mammograms and blood work can save big bucks
- 9/12/2016 · Lifehacker
- Ask an Expert: All About Finding the Right Doctor for You
- 9/12/2016 · Fast Company
- Amino - Product Profile in innovation by Design Finalists
- 9/1/2016 · Managed Healthcare Executive
- Thirteen healthcare apps to watch
- 8/17/2016 · Employee Benefit Advisor
- List 20 gadgets advisers can’t live without
- 8/01/2016 · Mashable
- The 9 most impressive social good innovations from July
- 7/25/2016 · Romper
- U.S. States With The Most C-sections Show That Where You Live Might Influence Your Choice
- 7/20/2016 · Fortune
- Predicting Your Medical Costs Is Almost Impossible. This New Tool Wants to Change That.
- 7/14/2016 · WTOP-FM
- Tool helps patients know costs before medical procedures
- 7/14/2016 · Fast Company
- Finally, You Can Choose A Doctor By How Much They Charge With This App
- 7/13/2016 · Kaiser Health News
- KHN Morning Briefing: Consumers Can Search Prices For Medical Services With New Online Tool
- 7/13/2016 · Becker’s Hospital Review
- New tool helps patients search care prices by physician, insurance plan
- 7/13/2016 · Clark
- Amino lets you estimate health care costs for any procedure by insurer and doctor
- 7/12/2016 · MobiHealth News
- Amino launches free, online healthcare cost comparison tool
- 7/12/2016 · MedCity News
- Amino sheds light on procedure costs based on plans with latest website update
- 7/12/2016 · Buzzfeed
- This Startup Wants To Take The Mystery Out Of Your Medical Bill
- 7/12/2016 · USA Today
- New tool searches health prices by doctor, insurance
- 6/14/2016 · CBS NY
- Tummy Trouble Is On The Rise Among Americans, Gastrointestinal Experts Say
- 5/12/2016 · Slate
- Why Aren’t More Young Women Choosing Set-It-and-Forget-It IUDs?
- 5/12/2016 · MedCityNews
- Amino seeks to deepen physician search engine data with new status
- 5/12/2016 · CMIO
- Amino certified by CMS to create new quality measures
- 5/11/2016 · Vox
- Can your age predict what birth control you use? A new data set suggests yes.
- 5/10/2016 · MobiHealthNews
- Healthcare transparency startup Amino certified by CMS to create new quality measures
- 4/27/2016 · USA Today
- Huge health are price differences even within same area, by state
- 3/31/2016 · Refinery29
- How Your Anxiety Affects This Other Chronic Condition
- 3/31/2016 · Lifehacker
- This Tool Shows What Bonus Disorders Come With Your Gut Condition
- 3/30/2016 · Women’s Health
- Another Reason Life Is Unfair: Women Have More Poop Problems Than Men
- 3/30/2016 · Shape
- Why Do So Many Women Have Stomach Issues
- 3/30/2016 · Parents
- News That’ll Give You a Stomachache: Tummy Troubles Are On the Rise In Women, Kids
- 3/16/2016 · Dallas Morning News
- Texas is No. 1 — in stomach flu. Ugh, from someone who’s lived to tell the tale
- 2/19/2016 · Refinery29
- Why Are Girls So Much More Likely To Get HIV Testing Than Boys?
- 2/17/2016 · Seventeen
- New Data Shows Teen Girls Get Tested for HIV Almost 4 Times as Often as Teen Guys
- 2/9/2016 · The Bump
- Does Baby Need That Test? The Most Common Medical Procedures, Revealed
- 2/9/2016 · Broadly
- Young Women Go to Doctor for Sexual Health – Men Go to Get Paid for Napping
- 2/9/2016 · Fast Company
- Will Patients Flock To This New “Find A Doctor” App?
- 2/9/2016 · Slate
- There’s a Big Gender Imbalance in Invasive Medical Procedures for Reproductive Health
- 12/17/2015 · Becker’s Health IT & CIO Review
- Amino startup 1st to receive complete CMS physician-level Medicare claims data
- 12/16/2015 · HIT Consultant
- CMS Awards Startup Amino Access to Physician-Level Medicare Claims Data
- 12/16/2015 · U.S. News & World Report
- Medicare takes for-profit partner
- 11/20/2015 · Vox
- The Weeds: Retirement age, terrorism, and C-sections
- 11/19/2015 · Slate
- Where C-Sections Are Most Common in the U.S. and Why They’re Performed
- 11/18/2015 · Lifehacker
- This Calculator Predicts Your Chance of Having a C-Section
- 11/18/2015 · Parents
- Will You Have a C-Section? New Study Breaks Down Your Chances by ZIP Code, Day of the Week
- 11/18/2015 · The Bump
- New Tool Helps Women Predict Chances Of Having A C-Section
- 11/18/2015 · Vox
- New Jersey cities have some of the highest C-section rates in the US. What about yours?
- 11/6/2015 · MedCity News
- Digital health startup uses big data to rethink physician search
- 10/27/2015 · Forbes
- Like A Yelp For Doctors, Except Using Data Instead Of Consumer Reviews
- 10/20/2015 · TIME
- There’s a New Way to Find the Perfect Doctor For You
- 10/20/2015 · New York Times
- Amino Harnesses Health Industry Data for Consumers
- 10/20/2015 · The Verge
- This startup will tell you how much experience a doctor has treating your condition
- 10/20/2015 · TechCrunch
- Amino Launches A Consumer Healthcare Search Platform, Backed By $19.4M From Accel, CRV, Others
- 10/20/2015 · CBS New York
- Dr. Max Gomez: Find A Doctor Online