Doctronic Acquires Summer Health to Expand into Pediatric Primary Care
Doctronic acquired Summer Health to expand into pediatric care and strengthen its AI-powered primary care platform.
Lantern, Marathon Health Launch Partnership to Provide Integrated Primary and Specialty Care
Through a new partnership, Marathon employer clients who don’t currently offer Lantern’s specialty care benefit can purchase it directly through Marathon.
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The Healthcare Payments Industry Faces a Perception Challenge
Healthcare payments are no longer about transactions. It’s about controlling the revenue cycle. And increasingly, that control is not sitting with ISOs.
GLP-1s, Specialty Spend, and a 9% Cost Surge: Why Employers Must Rethink Primary Care Now
The question isn’t whether costs will rise. It’s whether employers will continue managing around the margins — or address the root cause.
Why the CVS–Mass General Deal Would Likely Increase Spending More Than Access
A Massachusetts regulator is warning that CVS and Mass General Brigham’s proposed MinuteClinic partnership could drive up healthcare spending by at least $40 million annually, largely through steering patients into a higher-priced system. Experts said the deal might improve convenience for some patients but is unlikely to meaningfully expand access — and could ultimately strengthen market power and push costs even higher.
Trust Before Triage: Why I Let the Patient Help Write the Agenda
The patient's voice should be an entry point and not a barrier to better compliance and health outcomes. A nurse practitioner outlines a protocol for a frank exam-room exchange that sustains cultural humility.
AI-Driven Precision Care is the Fix for Our Health System’s Failures
To give patients the care they deserve and improve healthcare’s return on investment, PCPs can harness intelligent, clinically fluent AI – not to replace or override physicians or give them what tech companies think they need, but to support them in pragmatic ways.
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Closing the Quality-Affordability Gap in Workplace Mental Health
In an interview, Kyan Health Co-Founder and Chief Commercial Officer Konstantin Struck discussed how Kyan gives mid-market and enterprise employers access to premium workforce mental healthcare, at a price point that is affordable.
The Quiet Battle for the Front Door of Healthcare
This is not a debate about care models or physician preferences. It is a contest over who will control the referral pathways and the revenue streams that originate at the front door of healthcare.
Premise-Crossover Merger: Inside the $2B Push for a New Employer Health Model
Premise Health and Crossover Health are merging to create a nearly $2 billion company. The partners plan to scale advanced primary care — an integrated bundle of primary care, behavioral health, pharmacy services and care navigation — for large self-insured employers.
Medicare Mandates Cognitive Screening, But Do PCPs Have the Tools to Act Confidently?
The solution isn't about creating more referral pathways, but about building the measurement infrastructure that enables excellent primary care providers to act confidently on their observations.
The Primary Care Clinician of the Future Won’t Practice Alone: The Power of Scientific Partnerships
The future of primary care will be collaborative by design. Clinicians will continue to be the first call and the trusted guide, but they will be supported by scientific partners who shorten the distance between breakthrough and bedside.
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From Blind Spots to Better Outcomes: How SNF Data Transparency Strengthens LTSS
What if health plans could identify member decline before an avoidable hospitalization occurs? Real-time clinical visibility into long-stay SNF members uncovers risk earlier and drives better outcomes.
Samsung Health, HealthTap Launch Virtual Primary Care Partnership
HealthTap and Samsung Health have partnered to offer virtual primary and urgent care within the Samsung Health app.
From Executive Perk to Employee Retention Strategy: Why Concierge Medicine and/or Direct Primary Care Is Now a Business Essential
With staffing shortages, historic burnout, and rising costs, concierge medicine — and direct primary care (DPC) — have moved from the margins into the middle of the retention conversation.
HealthTap Joins LillyDirect to Expand Access to Primary Care–Led Diabetes Treatment
HealthTap is now offering virtual primary care for patients with diabetes on LillyDirect, becoming the platform’s first primary care provider.
Addressing the Primary Care Crisis by Integrating Advanced Practice Providers (APPs)
Since practices tend to build more flexibility into APPs’ schedules, they can efficiently expand patients’ access to care while allowing physicians to focus on more complex patients.
The Crisis That Unites Us: Healthcare Costs Are Breaking Everyone
The transformation of our healthcare system can start now, with employers adopting value-based care models, communities demanding better access, and policymakers challenging the status quo.