AHRQ Grant Cancellations Escalate Fears Over Future of U.S. Health Services Research
The agency has not issued new research grants since April 2025, with 80% of staff departed, crippling its operational capacity
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Doctronic Acquires Summer Health to Expand into Pediatric Primary Care
Doctronic acquired Summer Health to expand into pediatric care and strengthen its AI-powered primary care platform. The post Doctronic Acquires Summer Health to Expand into Pediatric Primary Care appeared first on MedCity News.
Processa Acquisition Lands Immunology Drug That Could Rival a New Novartis Product
With the merger, Processa’s new lead asset is a Vidya Therapeutics immunology drug that offers pipeline-in-a-product potential addressing a target that has clinical and regulatory validation from a recently approved Novartis drug. Vidya’s molecule is a next-generation drug that could have advantages over Novartis’s pill. The post Processa Acquisition Lands Immunology Drug That Could Rival…
Epic-First Doesn’t Mean Epic-Only: Where Hospitals Are Still Buying from Startups
A survey of 112 health system executives finds that Epic’s hold on hospital IT keeps getting stronger — but startups still have a shot, provided they solve a specific problem, prove strong ROI or offer a product that Epic is lagging behind on. The post Epic-First Doesn’t Mean Epic-Only: Where Hospitals Are Still Buying from…
Healthcare Organizations Push Back Against CMS Medicaid Payment Rule Changes
The proposed rule extends payment limits to all SDPs and targeted FFS payments, potentially impacting provider reimbursement and care access
Medicare’s Proposed Cut to 340B Drug Payments Would Hit Safety-Net Hospitals While Benefiting For-Profit Hospitals
This analysis finds that CMS’s proposed cut to Medicare reimbursement for 340B drugs, and accompanying increase for other outpatient services, would reduce revenues among safety-net hospitals while increasing revenues among for-profit hospitals.
A New Era of Interoperability, But Who Gets Left Behind?
CMS’s new framework sounds like a gentle opt-in. There’s no requirement to meet every standard on day one, just a commitment to work toward doing the right thing. That sounds great. But to actually participate in the network, you have to meet a baseline level of interoperability. The post A New Era of Interoperability, But…
The Healthcare Cloud Maturity Model: The Five Stages Most Health Systems Skip
The most common and most expensive misunderstanding in healthcare cloud strategy is treating the cloud as a destination you either reach or you do not, when it is really a progression through five distinct stages, each one unlocking capabilities the stage before it could not support. The post The Healthcare Cloud Maturity Model: The Five…
What Could Medicaid Work Requirements Mean for SSI Applicants?
Medicaid work requirements may make it more difficult for some SSI applicants to maintain coverage due to the added complexity of navigating the verification process for the medical frailty exclusion. KFF’s policy analysis explains why SSI applicants are particularly at risk of going uninsured under the new Medicaid rules.
Uninsured but Undaunted, a Surgical Patient Searched the Globe for a Deal
Around the end of last year, Ronmel Rangel, 63, began to feel a familiar discomfort in his lower abdomen. Twenty-five years earlier, while living in his native Venezuela, he had undergone surgery to repair a hernia on the right side of his groin. Now, the same pain had returned — on the left. This time,…