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Accompany Health launched Tuesday with $56 million in Series A funding. It offers primary and behavioral care for underserved patients. It also provides social care, such as food, housing and transportation assistance.

Foodsmart is rolling out its new program that enables doctors to refer their patients to Foodsmart's dieticians and healthy eating platform, as well as write prescriptions for healthy food just as easily as they might a normal pharmacy prescription. The initiative is being rolled out at Advocate Health, Intermountain Health and Memorial Hermann Health System.

One new solution that’s becoming an emerging standard is the Health Payment Account (HPA). HPAs offer employees a line of interest-free credit that employees can use to pay for care expenses up-front.

Higher car insurance premiums are hitting some D.C. residents where it hurts — their wallets.

A small memorial is growing for a man killed in a violent crime spree of shootings and carjackings in D.C. and Maryland within 12 hours.

Being Health, a startup that launched last week, offers a care team that includes psychiatrists, psychotherapists, nurse anesthetists, functional medicine physicians, nutritionists, acupuncturists and care advocates. It serves patients both virtually and in person.

The "syphilis epidemic is worsening," the CDC said.

To succeed in ACO Reach, groups need to accurately identify the social determinants of health (SDoH) barriers affecting their patient population and determine which barriers could be addressed effectively. Some technology can accurately note specific SDoH risk factors facing a given patient and offer targeted intervention recommendations based on that patient’s unique SDoH risk factors.

More than 100 passengers and some crew members aboard Cunard Cruise Line's Queen Victoria ship fell ill from an unknown cause, CDC said.

The CDC website says Candida Auris can cause a person to get very sick.