The question isn’t whether costs will rise. It’s whether employers will continue managing around the margins — or address the root cause. The post GLP-1s, Specialty Spend, and a 9% Cost Surge: Why Employers Must Rethink Primary Care Now appeared first on MedCity News.
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Healthcare organizations are starting to implement AI agents — autonomous, task-specific systems designed to perform functions with little or no human intervention. While initial adoption is focused mainly on non-clinical areas like scheduling and prior authorizations, experts predict that AI agents could eventually play a role in clinical decision-making, provided they meet rigorous safety and…
Kailera Therapeutics’ planned IPO will fund ongoing clinical development of a pipeline led by a drug that could rival Eli Lilly’s Zepbound in both efficacy and tolerability. Meanwhile, Renaissance Capital’s recap of first quarter 2026 IPOs shows slowing activity amid market turbulence from tariffs and war. The post Kailera Plans IPO for Obesity Drug That…
Ionis Pharmaceuticals’ Tryngolza is now the first approved therapy for treating severe hypertriglyceridemia, a prevalent chronic metabolic disorder that can lead to acute pancreatitis. This drug is a key piece of Ionis’s pivot away from partnering its assets, and instead developing and commercializing them on its own. The post A Metabolic Disease Posing Severe Pancreatic…
In an interview, VideaHealth CEO Florian Hillen says a new funding round will focus on enhancing customer service, expanding partnerships, and developing new AI-driven administrative tools
From field documentation to post-discharge outcomes, interoperability isn’t a future ideal — it’s a present necessity. Here’s what seamless EMS–hospital data exchange looks like, and why it matters now. The post What Full-Circle EMS–Hospital Interoperability Looks Like in Practice appeared first on MedCity News.
LOS ANGELES — President-elect Donald Trump’s promise of mass deportations and tougher immigration restrictions is deepening mistrust of the health care system among California’s immigrants and clouding the future for providers serving the state’s most impoverished residents. At the same time, immigrants living illegally in Southern California told KFF Health News they thought the economy…
This issue brief provides an overview of a new data sharing agreement for CMS to share Medicaid data with ICE and its potential implications for health care access and data privacy.
In 1942, a young Black man named Cleo Wright was removed from a Sikeston, Missouri, jail and lynched by a white mob. Nearly 80 years later, another young Black man, Denzel Taylor, was shot at least 18 times by police in the same small community. In the hourlong “Silence in Sikeston” documentary film broadcast on…