What You Should Know
- Surescripts has launched Script Corner™, a mobile-friendly web application designed to provide patients with immediate prescription price transparency.
- Through an exclusive partnership with GoodRx, the platform allows patients to view their insurance copay alongside discounted cash prices and other savings programs via a secure text link sent the moment a prescription is written.
What is Script Corner™? Empowering the Patient-Driven Future
Script Corner™
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Xella Health Raises $3.7M to Pioneer AI-Powered Menstrual Fluid Diagnostics
What You Should Know
- Xella Health has emerged from stealth with $3.7M in pre-seed financing to build the infrastructure for "decoding" female biology.
- Led by Precursor Ventures, the company is pioneering a first-of-its-kind diagnostic platform that combines menstrual fluid analysis with peripheral blood and AI-powered multi-omics to identify the root causes of chronic conditions like endometriosis, PCOS, and perimenopause.
The Biological Signal: Tapping Into Menstrual
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Teladoc Health Unveils ‘Prism-Powered’ 24/7 Virtual Urgent Care for 100M Americans
What You Should Know
- Teladoc Health has launched significant enhancements to its 24/7 Care service, moving virtual urgent care from a simple transactional visit to a comprehensive, integrated clinical experience.
- Powered by the company’s Prism care delivery platform, the enhanced service now treats a broader range of conditions—from sleep issues to uncontrolled diabetes—while offering real-time specialist consults and integrated Health Information Exchange (HIE) data to identify gaps
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Allos AI Raises $5M to Reformulate Complex Drugs with Glass-Box Causal AI
What You Should Know
- Allos AI has emerged from stealth with $5 million in seed financing led by Oxford Science Enterprises (OSE) to commercialize the industry’s first “glass-box” Causal AI platform.
- Unlike traditional AI that focuses on discovering new molecules, Allos targets the "formulation gap"—applying causal modeling to existing complex generics and next-generation medicines to improve their tolerability, bioavailability, and long-term patient outcomes.
The Problem: The
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Penguin Ai Launches Snowflake Native App to Automate HCC Risk Adjustment
What You Should Know
- Penguin Ai has announced the launch of its Hierarchical Condition Category (HCC) Coding & Risk Adjustment solution as a Snowflake Native App.
- By bringing its risk-adjustment intelligence directly into a customer’s Snowflake environment, Penguin Ai enables Medicare Advantage (MA) plans and risk-bearing providers to automate diagnosis extraction and improve Risk-Adjustment Factor (RAF) accuracy without moving or exposing sensitive patient data.
The "Data
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Amazon Pharmacy Disrupts Weight Loss Market with Oral Wegovy: $149 Cash-Pay Option and Same-Day Delivery
What You Should Know
- Amazon Pharmacy has officially added Novo Nordisk’s Wegovy® pill—the first and only FDA-approved oral GLP-1 for weight management—to its nationwide delivery platform.
- To lower barriers to care, Amazon is offering a transparent cash-pay option starting at $149 per month for those without insurance, while eligible commercially insured customers may pay as little as $25.
The Oral Shift: Removing the Needle Barrier
The "Wegovy pill" represents a massive
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Prescryptive and Ilant Health Partner to Deliver Transparent Pricing and Clinical Excellence
What You Should Know
- Prescryptive and Ilant Health have partnered to offer employers a direct-to-market channel for GLP-1 therapies, combining transparent net pricing with rigorous clinical oversight.
- The collaboration utilizes Prescryptive’s claims platform and Ilant’s Center of Excellence (COE) model to deliver an average 15% weight loss for participants while ensuring that 90% of members remain on therapy at the six-month mark.
The Operating Model: Aligning Clinical Guardrails
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Pomelo Care Secures $92M to Scale Virtual Maternity Model Across Women’s Health
What You Should Know
- Pomelo Care has closed a $92 million Series C funding round, propelling the company to a $1.7B valuation.
- After proving its virtual model can reduce preterm births by 37% and emergency room visits by 46%, Pomelo is moving beyond its maternity roots to launch comprehensive pediatric and midlife care programs, now covering more than 25 million lives nationwide.
The Accountability Pivot: Evidence Over Hype
In a 2026 market where "Agentic AI" and "Digital
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Topos Bio Emerges from Stealth to Tackle Disordered Proteins with $10.5M and Frontier AI
What You Should Know
- Topos Bio has emerged from stealth with $10.5M in seed funding to solve one of the most persistent challenges in medicine: targeting intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs). The seed funding was led by Boldstart, Threshold, and Neo, with participation from notable angel investors including Dara Khosrowshahi (CEO of Uber) and Naveen Rao (CEO of Unconventional AI).
- While traditional models like AlphaFold focus on static structures, Topos Bio’s foundation model,
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Carna Health Raises $8M to Scale Global AI-Driven Kidney Screening
What You Should Know
- Carna Health has raised $8M to scale its AI-driven Cardio-Kidney-Metabolic (CKM) platform. The round included participation from Dr. Jay Rosan, Cenk Bekmezçi, Jose Pereyra, Mark Boulding, Brandon Salomon, Andrew Roosevelt, Jeff Lindsey, Joseph White, John Brooks, Elvis Ndansi and Dr. Salvatore Viscomi.
- Following a successful initiative in Cameroon that screened 35,000 individuals, Carna is expanding its partnership with Siemens Healthineers to bring
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