MedCity News

Eli Lilly’s Triple Combo Obesity Drug Tops 28% Weight Loss in a Pivotal Trial

Medicaid’s Housing Problem Isn’t Placement — It’s What Happens Next

If we focus only on placement, we will continue to see cycles of progress and regression. If we focus on stability — on what happens after the keys are handed over — we have an opportunity to change those trajectories more permanently.

By Scott H. Schnell

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RCM Has an Execution Problem, Not an Effort Problem

Organizations that focus on execution will reduce variability, improve cash flow, and build resilience against ongoing industry pressure. They will also be better positioned to integrate future innovations as healthcare continues to evolve.

By Muthu Raju

MedCity Influencers

Why AI Fails in Healthcare Clinics (And What Actually Works)

When clinics select an AI partner - especially for AI Voice Agents - the expectation is that the tool gets the job done. Without integration into your systems and workflows, that rarely happens. Clinics end up with an incomplete solution that never adds the expected value and fails at the exact use cases AI should be best at.

By Jost-Vincent Steiskal

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Health Tech, Startups

GHO Capital, CBC Group Combine to Form $21B Healthcare Investment Giant

London-based GHO Capital and Singapore-based CBC Group plan to merge in a deal that would create what the firms describe as the “world’s largest dedicated healthcare investment firm.” GHO has $10.5 billion assets under management, and CBC has $10.8 billion in assets under management.

By Katie Adams

Consumer / Employer

Report: How Employers Can Better Manage GLP-1s for Adolescents

A new Nomi Health report found that GLP-1 use and spending among adolescents rose sharply from 2022 to 2025, raising concerns about future costs for self-insured employers.

By Marissa Plescia

BioPharma, Startups

Eli Lilly Grows Again in Genetic Medicines, Buying Startup With a New Way to Deliver DNA

Engage Bio developed a platform technology that enables non-viral delivery of DNA to cells. The acquisition is the latest in a series of Eli Lilly deals that expand the pharmaceutical company’s pipeline and capabilities in genetic medicines.

By Frank Vinluan

Policy, Health Tech

MedCity Pivot Podcast: A Conversation About Interoperability with Particle Health’s CEO

Jason Prestinario talks about the state of healthcare interoperability today, while also addressing questions about the interoperability lawsuits he and others are involved in against Epic.

By Arundhati Parmar

Opinion

When the Referee Owns the Team — and Tennessee Changes the Rules

At the center of this issue is a simple question: should the entities responsible for managing prescription drug benefits also own the pharmacies that profit from those decisions?

By Shane Reeves

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

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How AI & CMS are Solving the $4 Trillion Healthcare Crisis

The message to the industry is clear: If your business model is optimized only for FFS, you are the legacy. The future of healthcare belongs to those who can trade hours spent for improved patient lives.

By Julia Hu

MedCity Influencers

Why Patient Engagement Is Clinical Trials’ Next Strategic Frontier

As decentralized trials reduce face time with participants, sponsor organizations that treat engagement as an afterthought will pay for it in dropout rates, missing data and failed endpoints.

By Zabir Macci

The Hidden Administrative Tasks Draining Small Practices

Small practices play a critical role in healthcare delivery, but they cannot continue to absorb ever-increasing administrative demands without consequences.

By Michael Blackman, MD, MBA Chief Medical Officer, Greenway Health®

Health Tech

Nourish Secures $100M for Metabolic Health Clinic

Nourish's Series C round was led by Menlo Ventures, with participation from Thrive Capital, Index Ventures, J.P. Morgan Growth Equity Partners, Maverick Ventures, Y Combinator, BoxGroup, Atomico, Daybreak and Operator Partners.

By Marissa Plescia

BioPharma, Pharma

BioMarin’s Mixed Bag of Phase 3 Data Dim Prospects for Rare Disease Drug

A BioMarin Pharmaceutical drug met just one of two main goals of a Phase 3 test in a rare inherited enzyme deficiency with no FDA-approved therapies. The drug, a fusion protein, came from BioMarin’s 2025 acquisition of Inozyme Pharma.

By Frank Vinluan

Health Tech, Startups, Payers, Providers

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New Investment Firm Launches to Back Healthcare Companies That Have ‘Earned the Right to Scale’

Fountain Health Partners announced its launch, with plans to back companies approaching or already at profitability, with a clear three- to five-year path to a strategic exit. The investment firm was founded by Joey Campanelli, a former executive at Shields Health Solutions, and Jack Euston, a healthcare investment banker with more than a decade of experience in M&A.

By Katie Adams

MedCity Influencers

Everyone’s Betting on AI to Solve the Physician Shortage —They’re Solving the Wrong Problem

This isn't a supply problem. It's a distribution problem. The physicians exist. The system just isn't getting them where they need to be.

By Dr. Marc Ayoub

MedCity Influencers

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The Future of Healthcare Screenings: The Power of Vocal Biomarkers

What sets vocal analysis apart is its simplicity and scale. Through a single 40‑second voice sample, multiple conditions can be screened simultaneously — no needles, no lab visits, and no physical presence required.

By Kang Hsu, Jr

MedCity Influencers

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Reducing Admin Waste in Women’s Health: The Financial Case for Upstream Workflows

Capital is flowing into the broader women’s health ecosystem at a pace we have not seen before. The practices that will capture value from that momentum are the ones that get their operational house in order now.

By Hari Prasad

Consumer / Employer, Payers

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48 Groups Want Trump Administration To Improve Process to Resolve Payer-Provider Disputes

A coalition of employer and consumer groups is urging the Trump administration to crack down on alleged abuse of the No Surprises Act’s independent dispute resolution process.

By Marissa Plescia

Artificial Intelligence, Health Tech, Providers

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ChatGPT Wants to Improve Your Health — ChatCPR Might Actually Save Your Life

Researchers from UC San Diego, Johns Hopkins and UPMC have developed an AI-powered CPR coaching tool called ChatCPR that outperformed human 911 dispatchers in guiding bystanders through CPR. The team released the tool as an open-source resource, with the hopes that the right companies and emergency-response organizations can deploy it broadly.

By Katie Adams