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Clinical AI startup Abridge held a New York City event to signal it’s done being thought of as just an AI scribe. The company announced a Nvidia foundation model partnership, an Eli Lilly investment, new capabilities for its platform, and the intent to help mediate the relationship between payers and providers. The post Abridge Goes Beyond Documentation: 4 Updates appeared first on MedCity News .
Read full article →At AHIP 2026, healthcare leaders raised concerns about CMS’ new Medicaid eligibility requirements, with one urging the agency to give states more time to implement them. The post Healthcare Leader to CMS on New Medicaid Eligibility Requirements: Give States an Extension appeared first on MedCity News .
Read full article →STAT is tracking goals and promises of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and his Make America Healthy Again movement — successes, incompletes, and fails.
Read full article →Can any of the new obesity medications in development stand out from the pack? Which company just broke records with its IPO? And will the Food and Drug Administration allow…
Read full article →(MedPage Today) -- An HHS Office of Inspector General (OIG) report found that among 19 Medicare Advantage organizations, the three largest denied prior authorization requests for care in long-term care hospitals (LTCHs) and inpatient rehabilitation...
Read full article →(MedPage Today) -- The Trump administration put up $750,000 to charter a private yacht to evacuate a single American citizen from a remote South Pacific island after she had been aboard a cruise ship at the center of a deadly hantavirus outbreak...
Read full article →(MedPage Today) -- A chemotherapy-free regimen was safe and effective in pediatric patients with newly diagnosed acute promyelocytic leukemia (APL), according to results from a prospective study. The 2-year overall survival (OS) rate among all...
Read full article →(MedPage Today) -- The following contains links to social media websites including Bluesky, X, TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, and LinkedIn. Arghavan Salles, MD, PhD, explained how the "Streisand effect" led to skyrocketing engagement with the editorial...
Read full article →(MedPage Today) -- Menaquinone-7 (MK-7) supplementation modestly slowed the progression of coronary artery calcification (CAC) for patients in the placebo-controlled VitaK-CAC trial. Among people with existing chronic coronary atherosclerosis...
Read full article →Health plans are projecting the highest medical cost trend in nearly two decades in 2027, with commercial health costs expected to rise 9%, according to a new analysis from PwC.
Read full article →The new funding requirements mandate recipients of Ryan White funds to not acknowledge the identities of trans patients or use funds for gender-affirming care.
Read full article →Humana announced this week that it intends to divest its minority stake in Gentiva, the largest provider of end-of-life care in the country.
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