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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.

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.

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.

There’s a common belief in the healthcare industry that partnering with Group Purchasing Organizations (GPOs) means that most or all non-clinical purchases are covered by the contract. It almost sounds too good to be true: GPOs have all the answers for all your procurement needs. Finally, a one-stop shop for all your procurement solutions! Unfortunately, this is far from reality. In reality, GPOs only cover around 12-25% of non-clinical spend. This means that over 75% of non-clinical expe...

To meet evolving consumer expectations, providers must have a strong digital marketing strategy and user experience online. Here are 5 healthcare marketing trends to pay attention to in 2024.

Prior authorization software startup Cohere Health raised $50 million on Thursday, bringing its total funding to $106 million. The need for software to streamline the prior authorization process is perhaps more evident than ever given CMS’ new rule on the matter.

Coordination of benefits is a critical pillar of the Medicaid program as it ensures the efficient use of resources, prevents overutilization, promotes equity in resource distribution, mitigates fraud and abuse, contributes to program longevity and ultimately enhances healthcare access for beneficiaries.

Protagonist Therapeutics' rusfertide could have preliminary data next year from its Phase 3 test in polycythemia vera. If the peptide drug wins FDA approval in this rare blood disorder, the partners will share in U.S. commercialization while Takeda is responsible for the drug in the rest of the world.