MedCity News

What Data Delays Are Costing Healthcare — And Its Patients

AI for MSK Will Bend the Healthcare Cost Curve

Access to AI-powered digital MSK care options reduces wait times and allows patients to move directly into the right care instead of stair-stepping from hospital inpatient to primary care physicians to physical therapy.

By Donovan Campbell

MedCity Influencers

Medical Weight Loss is Rapidly Changing Surgical Risk and Costs

When used thoughtfully, with attention to muscle preservation and long-term sustainability, medical weight loss can lower complication rates, support a steadier recovery and reduce downstream strain on both patients and health systems.

By Dr. Brian McHugh

BioPharma, Pharma

Servier Moves Into Muscular Dystrophy, Paying $1.5B for Assets From Edgewise Therapeutics

France-based pharma company Servier is acquiring the muscular dystrophy business of Edgewise Therapeutics as part of a revenue growth strategy in oncology and neurology. The deal brings an Edgewise drug in clinical development for two rare neuromuscular disorders with limited treatment options.

By Frank Vinluan

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Massachusetts Attorney General Sues UnitedHealthcare, Alleges $100M MassHealth Fraud

The Massachusetts attorney general sued UnitedHealthcare, alleging the insurer improperly inflated MassHealth members’ health risk scores to secure at least $100 million in excess payments.

By Marissa Plescia

MedCity Influencers

Are We Measuring Metabolic Health All Wrong?

A fragmented system built on isolated metrics like BMI and A1C fails to capture the full picture of metabolic health and limits our ability to manage it effectively.

By Richard Frank

MedCity Influencers

Scaling AI in Health Systems: From Innovation to Sustainable Implementation

By adopting interpretation-driven, clinically intelligent technologies, revenue cycle teams can ensure that every nuance of care is accurately represented. This safeguards revenue integrity while maintaining the highest standards of compliance.

By Hari Bala

MedCity Influencers

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The Most Expensive Queue in Healthcare Isn’t Prior Auth — It’s the IT Backlog

Every month a legitimate workflow improvement sits in queue, the organization pays for the problem twice: once in the inefficiency the change was supposed to fix, and again in the workaround everyone built to get through the week. The backlog doesn’t show up as a line item. It shows up everywhere else.

By Fawad Butt

Payers

Why Ob-Gyns, States, and Plans, Should Care About Oral Health

While there are growing efforts to link dental health with overall health, the urgency should be felt strongly not only by pregnant women but, more importantly, by their care providers and health insurance companies. For instance, pregnant women with gum disease are 3-4 times more likely to develop pre-eclampsia, an emergency condition.

By Arundhati Parmar

BioPharma, Pharma

Regeneron Cancer Drug Shows New Promise in a Rare Disease… and Maybe More

Regeneron Pharmaceuticals’ multiple myeloma drug linvoseltamab has clinical trial results showing complete responses in 90% of patients who have light chain amyloidosis, a rare blood disease. The preliminary data were presented during the annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology.

By Frank Vinluan

Artificial Intelligence, Startups, Devices & Diagnostics

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Signos Secures $20M to Expand CGM Use Beyond Diabetes Into Weight Loss

Signos raised $20 million to expand its glucose monitoring platform for weight loss, which pairs Dexcom’s over-the-counter CGM with an app that translates glucose data into personalized diet and lifestyle recommendations.

By Katie Adams

The Power of Real World Data to Study Women’s Health at Scale

Veradigm examines key clinical trends, comorbidity profiles, and treatment trends across adolescence, reproductive years, and peri-/post-menopause. Download it today!

By Veradigm and MedCity News

Health Tech

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4 Notable Health Tech Funding Announcements in May

Health tech companies made several major funding announcements in May. Here is a list of some of the biggest funding rounds.

By Marissa Plescia

MedCity Influencers

Telehealth is Making GLP-1s More Accessible – But Access Alone isn’t Enough

Providing access to GLP-1s only solves part of the problem. In fact, without a broader approach, it may lead to new challenges alongside the ones it aims to address.

By Ro Huntriss

MedCity Influencers

Medical Education Is at a Crossroads. AI Isn’t the Problem — It’s the Mirror

The real question is whether we're being honest with ourselves about what medical education was designed to produce, and whether our current system is still doing that job.

By Dr. Michael Jerkins

MedCity Influencers

Preparing Benefits For the Next Wave: Gene Therapy Medications

The rise of metabolic gene therapies represents a critical juncture for benefits management. These treatments offer genuine hope for patients with serious conditions, but they also pose significant financial challenges.

By Katherine Shanahan

Devices & Diagnostics, Startups, Pharma, Health Tech, Providers

Healthcare Moves: A Monthly Summary of Hires, Exits and Layoffs

May has seen a slew of executive hires, exits and layoffs across the healthcare industry. For instance, Abridge, Highmark Health and Merck named new executives. There were also layoffs at organizations including Innovaccer, Intermountain Health and Novartis.

By Katie Adams

BioPharma, Pharma

Pfizer’s $10.5B Deal With One of China’s Top Cancer Biotechs Is Another Sign the Game is Changing

Pfizer unveiled a multi-drug R&D collaboration with Innovent Biologics, making it the latest big pharma company to reach a deal that taps into Chinese labs to source biotech innovation. This alliance will focus on developing next-generation drugs in the class of targeted cancer therapies called antibody drug conjugates.

By Frank Vinluan

Health Tech

Garner Health Secures $100M to Connect Patients with High-Performing Doctors

Garner's Series E round was led by Index Ventures with participation from Kleiner Perkins, Redpoint, Thrive, Sequoia, Founders Fund and Kaiser Permanente Ventures.

By Marissa Plescia

MedCity Influencers

The EHR Was Built to Store Data — It Wasn’t Built to Orchestrate Care

The next evolution in digital health is layering intelligent orchestration on top of the EHR to activate care in real time. It’s a platform plus orchestration layer, powered by AI and designed for action.

By Jonathan Bush