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Startup Helping Providers Manage Denied Claims Raises $16M

VC Firm Kurma Partners Closes €215M Fund in Pursuit of ‘Disruptive Therapeutic Solutions’

Kurma Partners’ new fund is the venture capital firm’s fourth and largest. Previous Kurma investments have led to exits that include the acquisitions of Corlieve Therapeutics, Emergence Therapeutics, and Amolyt Pharma.

By Frank Vinluan

Health Tech, Startups, Devices & Diagnostics, Providers

Semaglutide weight loss drug, conceptual illustration. Marketed as Ozempic, semaglutide is a glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) analogue that is used to treat diabetes and for weight management. It increases the production of insulin, the hormone that lowers blood sugar levels, while also suppressing secretion of glucagon, the hormone that raises blood sugar levels. It also reduces hunger and slows gastric emptying

Beyond the Scale: How Imaging Can Help Determine GLP-1 Efficacy

Telehealth clinic Hone Health partnered with imaging company BodySpec to give its patients access to DEXA body composition scans. The partnership seeks to help providers and patients on GLP-1s distinguish fat loss from muscle loss and better evaluate how these drugs are affecting the body.

By Katie Adams

MedCity Influencers

The Cancer Crisis We Can See Coming And Have the Tools to Change

Colon cancer has long been considered a disease that comes with old age. However, the trend line of disease has been moving in the wrong direction for years, in a population we long assumed wasn’t at risk. And while researchers continue to investigate the why, there's a parallel conversation we aren't having nearly enough. One that has nothing to do with science, and everything to do with operations.

By Jaimal Soni

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Precision Delivered: How Radiopharmaceuticals Are Reshaping Cancer Care

As radiopharmaceuticals continue to evolve, the convergence of scientific innovation, operational practicality, and clinical expertise is opening new possibilities in oncology.

By Robert Den

MedCity Influencers

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The Brand-Driven Flywheel: Igniting Growth Through a Simple Patient Experience

Direct-to-patient (DTP) models create a continuous loop of value, connecting seamless patient and provider experience with the strategic power of branding and data.

By Chip Parkinson

The Power Behind Enterprise EHR Software for Large Healthcare Systems

Enterprise EHR boosts scalability, interoperability, and governance for large healthcare systems.

By Malvika Tarnekar, Director of Product Strategy, PrognoCIS by Bizmatics Inc

Artificial Intelligence, Startups, Health Tech

Top Silicon Valley VCs Are Backing a New Health Tech Residency Program

The AI Health Fund launched Treehub, a new residency program designed to back and build healthcare AI startups at the earliest stages, often before companies are even formed. It is supported by prominent figures in the Silicon Valley venture capital world, including Tim Draper and Anne Wojcicki.

By Katie Adams

BioPharma, Pharma

Regeneron Gets Landmark FDA Approval for First Gene Therapy for Hearing Loss

Regeneron Pharmaceuticals’ Otarmeni is now approved for treating hearing loss from an ultra-rare genetic mutation found in an estimated 50 newborns per year. While Regeneron will offer this gene therapy for free, the approval came with a rare pediatric disease priority review voucher that the company can sell for hundreds of millions of dollars.

By Frank Vinluan

Payers

SCAN CEO Urges Brokers to Drop Plans That Treat Them Poorly — One Says She Has No Choice

SCAN Health Plan CEO Sachin Jain urged brokers to abandon for-profit plans that treat them poorly, but one broker argued they often can’t because dominant players like UnitedHealth Group control so much of the healthcare system.

By Marissa Plescia

MedCity Influencers

Why Quality Shareback is the Missing Fuel for the Healthcare Interoperability Engine

The question is no longer whether shareback matters. It is whether the healthcare ecosystem is willing to prioritize it in practice by recognizing it in policy measurement, monitoring, and enforcement, as well as investing in the technical and governance structures needed to make shareback routine, high-quality, measurable, and reportable.

By Patrick Lane

Beyond Analytics: How Sellers Dorsey is Hard-Coding Value into Medicaid Policy [Video]

How to turn analytics into actual policy outcomes.

By Sellers Dorsey and MedCity News

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The Healthcare Industry Has a Last Mile Problem — It Hasn’t Realized It Yet

Healthcare has solved for the hard part. The science, the surgery, the diagnosis: by global standards, we're exceptional. What we haven't solved for is what happens when the patient goes home.

By Jenny Lee

Policy, Payers

How the DOJ Is Tackling Fraud in the ACA Marketplace

At the Medicarians Conference, Ricardo Carcas, assistant special agent in charge of the Office of Investigations, discussed cases of fraud in the ACA and how the DOJ is combatting it.

By Marissa Plescia

BioPharma, Pharma

FDA Nod for Merck HIV Drug Brings Competition to a Gilead Sciences Antiretroviral

Merck’s HIV drug Idvynso could become a drug choice for patients who need to switch from Gilead Sciences’ Biktarvy for safety or tolerability reasons. The Merck combination drug pairs two molecules that bring different mechanisms of action to suppressing HIV.

By Frank Vinluan

MedCity Influencers

Wearable Noise Is Exploding — Trust Is the Filter

The challenge is determining whether wearable data is reliable enough to relieve the review burden, guide care, support reimbursement, or reassure a patient who is worried about their heart rhythm at two o’clock in the morning.

By Dr. Kenneth Civello

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Trust, Technology and the Future of Interoperability: Solving Problems That Impact Real Lives

Healthcare interoperability isn’t an abstract concept; it’s about human connection, building trust and easing burden on patients and their care providers.

By Karla Mills

Alignment Health Plan CEO: Sometimes When MA Plan is Pulling Out, the Provider is to Blame

At the annual Medicarians conference in Las Vegas that draws brokers, agents, agency owners and field marketing organizations, among others, Dawn Maroney suggested that payers are not always the "bad guys."

By Arundhati Parmar

Health Tech, Payers

Oscar Health Seeks to Build ‘Airbnb for Healthcare’ with New Marketplace, CEO Says

Oscar Health launched Lucie, a marketplace aimed at making healthcare more shoppable.

By Marissa Plescia

BioPharma

Neuro Startup Tortugas Unveils $106M and a Pipeline of Drugs for the Brain

Tortugas Neurosciences’ two lead programs are in-licensed oral small molecules in development for schizophrenia and tinnitus. The startup is led by veterans of Sage Therapeutics, a neuroscience biotech that was acquired last year.

By Frank Vinluan