What You Should Know:
- A new analysis from the Urban Institute, supported by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, projects that U.S. healthcare providers could lose more than $770B in revenue over the next decade if a budget reconciliation bill recently passed by the House of Representatives becomes law.
- The financial blow would stem from an estimated 11 million people losing health coverage through Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act (ACA) marketplaces. The report further
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Technology
NationsBenefits and Walmart Deepen Collaboration to Transform Health Plan Member Access to Benefits and Wellness Tools
What You Should Know:
- NationsBenefits®, a healthcare fintech, supplemental benefits, and outcomes platform, and Walmart, the world’s largest retailer announced they are continuing to work together to revolutionize how health plan members access essential benefits through innovative, tech-powered tools.
- The ongoing collaboration prominently features NationsBenefits’ proprietary Basket Analyzer Service (BAS) and the Walmart Everyday Health Signals™ program, which leverages
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HerMD Launches Specialized Virtual Care Platform Focusing on Menopause and Sexual Health
What You Should Know:
- HerMD, a pioneer in evidence-based women's healthcare announced the launch of Virtual Care by HerMD, a specialized telehealth platform designed to deliver comprehensive women's health services with a dedicated focus on menopause and sexual health. Scheduling for the new virtual services is now open, with appointments set to begin on June 2, 2025.
- While the organization recently closed its physical locations due to challenges within the broader healthcare
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Walmart Unveils Digital Health Innovations to Enhance Medicare Advantage Benefit Use and Promote Healthier Eating
What You Should Know:
- Walmart today announced new digital innovations designed to transform the healthcare shopping experience, specifically aiding customers in maximizing their Medicare Advantage supplemental benefits.
- In a first for retail, select customers can now easily identify plan-specific, benefits-eligible products while shopping on Walmart.com and the Walmart app. Alongside this, Walmart is rolling out "Everyday Health Signals," a new AI-powered digital platform
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Critical Role of Transitions of Care in Medicare Advantage Success
The Medicare Advantage (MA) market is at a tipping point, with more than half of all seniors enrolled in an MA plan for their healthcare. Utilization of services is skyrocketing and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has increased pressure to deliver supplemental benefits in a high-quality, low-cost and reportable manner.
As enrollment continues to grow, how health plans are paid — and how much —will be central to the debate over the efficiency and sustainability of
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Wisp Launches At-Home Diagnostics, Expands to Offer 360-Degree Telehealth Care
What You Should Know:
- Wisp, the largest U.S. telehealth company focused exclusively on women’s sexual and reproductive health, has launched its new diagnostics vertical, significantly expanding its service offerings.
- With over 1.5 million patients across all 50 states, Wisp is now providing convenient, affordable at-home testing for common sexually transmitted infections (STIs), coupled with integrated follow-up care within its existing virtual ecosystem.
Wisp Launches Nationwide
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Gates Foundation Awards Axmed $5M Grant to Boost Maternal and Child Health Procurement in Africa
What You Should Know:
- The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has awarded a $5M grant to Axmed, a healthcare technology company focused on transforming how lifesaving medicines are procured across Growth Markets.
- The grant, announced on May 21, 2025, during a high-level roundtable alongside the 78th World Health Assembly, will be deployed as a matching fund to enhance the procurement of maternal, newborn, and child health (MNCH) commodities in Sub-Saharan Africa through
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Reach7 Diabetes Studios Founder Chun Yong on Reimagining Chronic Care with a Concierge Medical Model
Today’s landscape of diabetes care is fraught with challenges: it's a condition that's often misunderstood by both patients and the healthcare system, highly prevalent, financially burdensome and frequently mismanaged. To explore a new paradigm in addressing these issues, we're speaking with Chun Yong, the founder and CEO of Reach7 Diabetes Studios. Chun, a biomedical engineer from Georgia Tech with experience as a UX strategist at Coca-Cola, is applying his unique expertise to "reimagine how
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LifeMD Launches $299 Introductory Wegovy® Bundle for Self-Pay Patients in Collaboration with Novo Nordisk
What You Should Know:
- LifeMD, Inc., a provider of virtual primary care services announced a limited-time $299 introductory bundle for new self-pay patients prescribed Wegovy® (semaglutide).
- The comprehensive package includes both the GLP-1 medication and access to LifeMD’s virtual weight management program. The initiative is part of LifeMD's collaboration with Novo Nordisk, announced last month, and leverages a recently completed integration with NovoCare® Pharmacy to offer
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Equum Medical Acquires VeeOne Health’s Clinical Services
What You Should Know:
- Equum Medical, a leading national provider of acute telehealth-enabled clinical workforce solutions, today announced it has acquired the clinical health services of VeeOne Health. This strategic acquisition includes VeeOne Health's Tele-Psychiatry, Tele-Neurology, Tele-Infectious Disease (Tele-ID), Tele-Pulmonary, and Tele-ICU service lines.
- The move significantly expands Equum Medical's comprehensive telehealth offerings across the care continuum and
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