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The House Ways and Means Committee unanimously advanced a bill to reform Medicare Advantage prior authorization requirements. The post Healthcare Groups Praise Unanimous Committee Approval of MA Prior Auth Bill appeared first on MedCity News .
Read full article →CMS’ proposed 2027 Physician Fee Schedule would bar Medicare payment for remote monitoring services delivered by third-party vendors, following OIG reports that flagged widespread fraud in the space. The post Why CMS Is Trying to Ban Third-Party Remote Patient Monitoring appeared first on MedCity News .
Read full article →Eli Lilly’s AtaiBeckley acquisition marks a dozen M&A deals for the pharma company so far this year. AtaiBeckley’s lead program is an intranasally administered psychedelic drug in pivotal testing for treatment-resistant depression. The post Lilly Expands Its Mind to Psychedelics With $2.8B AtaiBeckley Acquisition appeared first on MedCity News .
Read full article →This is not an argument against capital in independent medicine. Practices need infrastructure, and physicians have legitimate reasons to seek liquidity. It is an argument that the exit stage carries a risk this market has not yet priced. The post What Happens to Independent Medicine When Private Equity Shows Up With a Checkbook appeared first on MedCity News .
Read full article →A ballot measure to eliminate Missouri’s income tax would give the state legislature broad authority to levy new sales taxes to replace the lost revenue. Critics say that could mean adding a sales tax on medical services or prescription medicines. Those types of taxes are unusual, but not unheard of, in the U.S.
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Read full article →If we do not get this right, we may inadvertently cause a new sarcopenia epidemic while congratulating ourselves on solving obesity. The post GLP-1s Are Working — Now Medicine Needs to Measure What Matters appeared first on MedCity News .
Read full article →For years, the healthcare industry treated data collection as the main challenge. The next phase is about interpretation, coordination, and operational usability. The post Building AI-Ready Public Health Data Systems for Faster, Safer Decisions appeared first on MedCity News .
Read full article →Digital health funding hit $7.4 billion in the first half of 2026, with megadeals absorbing nearly half of all capital. As AI becomes table stakes, founders and investors say the real differentiator is now domain expertise rather than technology. The post ‘The Moat is No Longer Technological’: How Digital Health Fundraising Changed in H1 appeared first on MedCity News .
Read full article →Celcuity drug Revtorpyk is now approved for advanced cases of the most common type of breast cancer that do not harbor a certain mutation. The intravenously infused medicine is first in a new drug class that addresses a pathway associated with many cancers. The post Celcuity’s First-in-Class Drug Gets FDA Approval in Most Common Type of Breast Cancer appeared first on MedCity News .
Read full article →Neko’s Series C round was co-led by Lightspeed Venture Partners and O.G. Venture Partners, with participation from Atomico, General Catalyst, Lakestar, Liberty City Ventures, Positive Sum and BDT & MSD. The post Neko Health Secures $700M to Support US Expansion appeared first on MedCity News .
Read full article →We are moving into an era where we can finally converse with our data. We can ask, “Why are denials spiking in Region X?” or “Show me the safety profile of this cohort,” and receive an answer, not a spreadsheet. The post Answers at the Speed of Thought: Healthcare Analytics in the Era of Agentic AI appeared first on MedCity News .
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