ClarityCare Raises $16.5M to Speed Up Prior Authorizations
As health plans grapple with new federal deadlines for prior authorization decisions, healthcare AI startup…
ClarityCare Raises $16.5M to Speed Up Prior Authorizations
As health plans grapple with new federal deadlines for prior authorization decisions, healthcare AI startup ClarityCare has raised $16.5 million to automate the administrative workload that can keep patients waiting for the care they need. The post ClarityCare Raises $16.5M to Speed Up Prior Authorizations appeared first on MedCity News.
Midterm Election Update: Immigrant Health Policy
Immigration restrictions and enforcement are central to the Trump administration’s domestic agenda and a focus of debate in the 2026 midterm elections. These policies have ripple effects on health care: immigration-related fears are leading some immigrant families to avoid medical care and drop coverage, including for U.S. citizen children, and visa restrictions could strain a…
HealthTap Connects Patients, Doctors and DME Suppliers
HealthTap CEO Sean Mehra says partnerships with durable medical equipment vendors connect patients with primary care physicians when they need a clinical evaluation, documentation or orders
A Market, Not a Mandate, Is the Fastest Way to Bring AI Into Hospitals
The cost of waiting is not evenly distributed. Rural and critical access hospitals report under 50 percent adoption of even basic predictive tools, compared with 86 percent among top-tier system-affiliated hospitals. Every year without a bridge widens that gap, and it widens it fastest for the hospitals with the least room to absorb it. The…
More Than 4 Million Medicare Beneficiaries Will Have Their Medicare Advantage or Stand-Alone Prescription Drug Plan Terminated at the End of 2026
Data from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) shows that 4.3 million Medicare beneficiaries, including 3.1 million Medicare Advantage drug plan enrollees and 1.2 million PDP enrollees, will have their plan terminated at the end of 2026. An additional 1.4 million Medicare Advantage enrollees are in a plan that is consolidating with another…
Remember This Acronym Next Time You’re Facing a Big Medical Decision: B.R.A.I.N.
(Maria Fabrizio for WPLN and KFF Health News) Gina Conley, an Army veteran in Aberdeen, North Carolina, knew she wanted a low-intervention birth for her first child. But her plan started to go off the rails as soon as she got to the hospital. “Everything that I did not want to happen had happened,” she…
Jacksonville, Florida’s Gun Violence Is Rooted in Redlining and Homes Built on Toxic Waste
This article was produced in partnership with The Trace, a nonprofit newsroom covering gun violence in America. Sign up for its newsletters here. JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — In a Florida county with a startling rate of child firearm injuries, a boarded-up elementary school named for famed educator and civil rights activist Mary McLeod Bethune sits in…
Can AI Find the Cure?
Medicine has its maps: Anatomists charted the body, and the Human Genome Project gave us the code. Now, the Human Cell Atlas, a global effort involving thousands of scientists, is using AI to create comprehensive reference maps of all human cells to understand human health and diagnose, monitor and treat disease. Given the extraordinary implications…
How Experts Are Reacting to Trump’s Women’s Health Executive Order
Women’s health experts had mixed reactions to the Trump administration’s executive order on women’s health. The post How Experts Are Reacting to Trump’s Women’s Health Executive Order appeared first on MedCity News.
Survey: More Than Half of Women in States with Abortion Bans Wouldn’t Know Where to Get an Abortion if They Needed One, Up Since 2024
More than half (53%) of reproductive-age women living in states with abortion-provision bans say they would not know where to go or where to find information if they needed an abortion, up from 43% in 2024, according to a new KFF survey.
