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Healthcare marketplace Aligned Marketplace secured $20M in Series A funding led by healthcare venture firm Venrock.The platform directly connects self-insured employers and Third-Party Administrators (TPAs) to a national network of independent advanced primary care (APC) and direct primary care (DPC) practices across all 50 states (comprising 3,000+ clinics).Actuarial data from a 2025 Fortune 500 employer program demonstrated a 12% reduction in total cost of care for
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Cityblock Health Expands Humana Partnership to Serve 20,000 North Carolina Medicare Advantage Members
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Cityblock Health announced a major expansion in North Carolina to deliver its 24/7 wrap-around care model to nearly 20,000 Humana Medicare Advantage and dual-eligible beneficiaries across 50 counties.Effective July 1, 2026, the partnership supports complex, hard-to-reach populations, including Dual Eligible Special Needs Plan (D-SNP) members, partial dual-eligibles, and Low-Income Subsidy (LIS) recipients.Cityblock's model provides 24/7 in-person and virtual care
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Function Partners with NYU Grossman School of Medicine for Longitudinal AI Disease Detection
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Function announced a research collaboration with NYU Grossman School of Medicine (part of NYU Langone Health) focused on developing next-generation AI models for early, preventive disease detection.The initiative pairs NYU Grossman's deep, longitudinal clinical and treatment dataset with Function's broad, multimodal health monitoring pipeline—ingesting routine biomarker labs and advanced imaging scans before and after disease onset.Initial clinical focus areas target
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Blue Shield of California and Cedars-Sinai Secure 4-Year Network Deal
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Blue Shield of California and Cedars-Sinai Health System reached a new four-year long-term agreement, ensuring uninterrupted in-network access for Commercial HMO and PPO members across Southern California.The renewed contract covers major hospital facilities—including Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Cedars-Sinai Marina Del Rey Hospital, Torrance Memorial Medical Center, and Huntington Hospital—alongside ambulatory surgery centers, ancillary providers, and associated
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CMS’ Proposed Changes to Remote Monitoring Could Reshape Digital Healthcare Delivery
Over the past decade, remote patient monitoring (RPM) and remote therapeutic monitoring (RTM) have transformed from emerging technologies into integral components of chronic disease management. Fueled by advances in connected medical devices, wearable sensors, digital therapeutics, artificial intelligence (AI), and virtual care platforms, remote monitoring has expanded providers' ability to manage patients beyond the traditional clinical setting while supporting earlier intervention and improved
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Wellinks Raises $10M to Scale Predictive Cardiopulmonary Remote Patient Monitoring
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New Haven-based cardiopulmonary digital health provider Wellinks closed a $10M first tranche of its Series B funding round.The financing was led by strategic partner UMass Memorial Health alongside participation from existing inside investors.Wellinks' FDA-cleared Spire Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM) System and proprietary Health Tags deliver passive, continuous physiological tracking to predict clinical deterioration up to one week before symptom onset.Clinical evidence
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CHG Healthcare 2026 APP Workforce Report: 92% of Leaders Rate APPs as Essential Strategy
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According to a new report from CHG Healthcare, advanced practice providers (APPs)—including NPs, PAs, and CRNAs—have shifted from temporary coverage to foundational infrastructure, with 92% of surveyed healthcare facility leaders rating APPs as "very" or "extremely" important to workforce strategy.The report, Advanced Practice Provider Workforce Trends Report, reveals that nearly all healthcare facilities (97%) plan to maintain or increase APP utilization in 2026,
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M&A: VSee Health to Acquire $35M Healthcare Commerce Platform
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VSee Health, Inc. signed a non-binding letter of intent (LOI) to acquire healthcare technology and operating assets valued at approximately $42 million.The target assets support an integrated healthcare commerce platform serving the U.S. clinic-based wellness market, generating an unaudited annual revenue run rate over $35 million and approximately $7 million in EBITDA.Operating via an asset-light framework, the platform coordinates cloud-based ordering, payment
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U.S. Hospitals Race to Adapt as Generative AI Takes Hold
Physician use of artificial intelligence in the United States has more than doubled in three years. The American Medical Association's 2026 Physician Survey on Augmented Intelligence, fielded among 1,692 doctors in January and February, found that 81% now use AI in a professional capacity, up from 38% when the AMA first polled physicians on the technology in 2023. The average respondent reported 2.3 separate use cases.
Institutional adoption has followed the same curve. A survey of executives
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RWJF Report Analyzes Hospital Financial and Workforce Strains Under OBBBA
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A joint report by the Urban Institute and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation analyzes five major federal policy shifts threatening hospital financial stability and operational sustainability.Medicaid work requirements and semi-annual redeterminations under the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA), combined with ACA Marketplace subsidy expirations, are projected to cause millions to lose health coverage.State-Directed Payment caps and provider tax reductions under OBBBA will cut
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