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From AI and antitrust to drug pricing and vaccines, a wave of lawsuits could reshape healthcare policy and business. Fierce Healthcare looks at what's at stake and where the cases stand fiercehealthcare.com/special…

Healthcare's high-stakes courtroom battles

Healthcare is facing a wave of high-stakes litigation that could redefine drug pricing, insurance oversight, health technology competition, AI deployment, labor policy and public health regulation....

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.@HMHNewJersey signs definitive agreement to acquire @HunterdonHealth, commits $230M bit.ly/4z0k9dz

Hackensack Meridian Health signs definitive agreement to acquire Hunterdon Health, commits $230M

Hackensack Meridian Health has signed a definitive agreement to pick up Central New Jersey’s Hunterdon Health, a $230 million deal that would grow the state’s largest health system to 19 total hosp |...

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Readily secures $11M series A to continue building out AI regulatory compliance platform bit.ly/4ysHG5Z

Readily secures $11M series A to continue building out AI regulatory compliance platform

Artificial intelligence compliance platform Readily

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Probably Genetic raises $12M to scale rare disease dataset, support drug discovery bit.ly/4s3ziYR

Probably Genetic raises $12M to scale rare disease dataset, support drug discovery

Probably Genetic, an AI platform powering the research, diagnosis and treatment of genetic diseases, has raised $12 million in series A funding, Fierce Healthcare has learned. | The company’s core...

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Allara raises $30M to expand virtual women's healthcare across the continuum bit.ly/4hY7Kj4

Allara raises $30M to expand virtual women's healthcare across the continuum

Allara, a virtual women’s health provider, has raised $30 million.  | Since its expansion nationwide last year, Allara has added urgent care visits, brought on more internal medicine providers and...

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Urban hospitals face closure rates similar to rural facilities, study finds bit.ly/4yUE7qe

Urban hospitals face closure rates similar to rural facilities, study finds

Nationwide acute care hospital closures are outpacing new openings, with similar rates of shutdown among facilities in urban and rural regions alike, according to new research from Harvard T.H. |...

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Little room for stakeholder consensus among potential Medicare Advantage reforms bit.ly/4zzzvFN

Little room for stakeholder consensus among potential Medicare Advantage reforms

There are plenty of eyes on the Medicare Advantage program, and interest in reforms is growing on both sides of the aisle. | A survey of 52 experts spanning researchers, the Medicare Advantage...

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AI, tech leaders are lobbying Trump health officials in a government-run chat room bit.ly/4i1DqUG

AI, tech leaders are lobbying Trump health officials in a government-run chat room

A cadre of elite techies, financiers, and high-level Trump administration officials have spent a year quietly charting an extraordinary and rapid campaign to persuade Americans to use apps and othe |...

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UNMC, Nebraska Medicine teaching hospital project upgrades to $2.75B planned investment bit.ly/4yR3JEe

UNMC, Nebraska Medicine teaching hospital project upgrades to $2.75B planned investment

An expanded project scope—and price tag—for the future primary teaching hospital for the University of Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC) and Nebraska Medicine

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Diverge Health, a value-based care accelerator for primary care practices, is merging with Medical Home Network, a company supporting federally qualified health centers bit.ly/4zvCwXz

VBC accelerator Diverge merges with Medical Home Network to support PCPs, FQHCs

Diverge Health, a value-based care accelerator for primary care practices, is merging with Medical Home Network (MHN), a company supporting federally qualified health centers. | Together, the...

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.@Google unveils new Fitbit Edge tracker as tech giant expands health monitoring ambitions bit.ly/4jpbrkm

Google unveils new Fitbit Edge tracker as tech giant expands health monitoring ambitions

Google on Monday debuted its second Fitbit tracker of the year, the Fitbit Edge, which sits between the screenless health tracker Fitbit Air and the more advanced Pixel Watch. | The new device also...

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Confido Health nabs $12.5M to scale agentic AI across PE-backed medical groups bit.ly/4yY1pvu

Confido Health nabs $12.5M to scale agentic AI across PE-backed medical groups

Confido Health is expanding beyond AI voice agents to build out an agentic AI operating system that can execute administrative workflows across a medical practice. | The company secured a $12.5...

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Health systems’ finances improved in 2026, but many organizations remain under enough pressure to keep tapping reserves, taking on debt, and turning to investment portfolios for financial flexibility, according to a new survey bit.ly/3TZEkJh

Marsh survey examines how health systems are managing capital, investment strategies

Health systems’ finances improved in 2026, but many organizations remain under enough pressure to keep tapping reserves, taking on debt, and turning to investment portfolios for financial flexibili |...

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Thoreau-backed Ensemble, Penelope Health partner to bring payer policy intelligence into RCM bit.ly/3U40tGy

Thoreau-backed Ensemble, Penelope Health partner to bring payer policy intelligence into RCM

Two Thoreau-backed healthcare companies are partnering to bring real-time payer policy intelligence into revenue cycle workflows. | Two Thoreau-backed healthcare companies are partnering to bring...

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.@AbridgeHQ, University of Texas System enter enterprise-wide agreement for expanded AI-enabled care bit.ly/4ioq0mY

Abridge, University of Texas System enter enterprise-wide agreement for expanded AI-enabled care

Abridge is expanding its clinical AI platform across the University of Texas System through an enterprise-wide agreement with UT REAL Health AI, building on a pilot that has grown significantly ove |...

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People with serious mental illness often face significant barriers to getting the care they need. In this week's episode of "Podnosis," we explore how Amae Health is working to address gaps in the system by bringing psychiatric care, physical healthcare and other support services together under one model bit.ly/4s3A4VL

Integrating care for people with serious mental illness

Serious mental illness (SMI) is challenging to address. | People with serious mental illness often face significant barriers to getting the care they need. In this week's episode of "Podnosis," we...

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Epic teams up with Amazon Pharmacy, LillyDirect and Mark Cuban to launch prescription drug pricing tool bit.ly/4s9t3CP

Epic teams up with Amazon Pharmacy, Eli Lilly and Mark Cuban to launch prescription drug pricing...

Epic is partnering with Amazon Pharmacy, Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drugs, Costco and Eli Lilly’s LillyDirect to develop a tool that lets clinicians and patients compare prescription drug prices. | Epic is...

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As prior auth becomes an AI ‘arms race,’ Otter Health raises $8M for a different approach. The startup built an AI-powered real-time clinical quality platform for what it calls "smarter" utilization management bit.ly/4zziU4X

As prior auth becomes an AI ‘arms race,’ Otter Health raises $8M for a different approach

Prior authorization has long been a source of friction between payers and providers, and now, with algorithmic tools for claims reviews and LLMs for appeals, it's evolved into an AI "arms race" as |...

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Elevance Health Foundation launched a prize program for patient safety initiatives. Here's why bit.ly/4jZEZFf

Elevance Health Foundation launched a prize program for patient safety initiatives. Here's why

The Elevance Health Foundation has launched a new prize program aimed at supporting solutions aimed at improving patient safety, with the first crop of winners targeting challenges like health lite |...

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Hospital industry sues to block HHS' 340B rebate pilot (again) bit.ly/3TJHcKu

Drugmakers, PhRMA seek to intervene in hospitals' 340B rebate challenge

The pharmaceutical industry and individual drugmakers participating in the government's 340B Rebate Model Pilot Program want to play an active role in combating hospitals' latest legal bid to sidel |...

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.@Walmart to expand health benefits for employees, including $0 prescriptions, rare disease care bit.ly/4ySr7S0

Walmart to expand health benefits for employees, including $0 prescriptions, rare disease care

Walmart is expanding benefits for its 1.6 million U.S. | The new offerings include “zero cost” prescriptions, expanded Centers of Excellence for rare conditions and paid NICU leave.

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