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Suki $90M Series E: AI Agents in Healthcare
190% encounter growth. $90M raised. Suki is done being a scribe. 🤖 That number, patient encounters supported by Suki growing more than 190% year over year in 2026, is the kind of traction that makes ...
BRELT3 Mobile LDCT Screening Framework
18 lung cancers found. One mobile CT unit. Four cities. 🔬 The BRELT3 trial just showed what a mobile LDCT program can actually deliver in underserved communities. According to ILCN, 2,018 people completed LDCT screening ...
FQHC Financial Sustainability Crisis
Everyone calls FQHCs resilient. The numbers say something else. 📊 Synergy Billing just released The FQHC Benchmark Report, a national analysis combining HRSA Uniform Data System data with verified IRS Form 990 filings from 1,139 ...
CMS Removes 189K Duplicate ACA Enrollees
CMS just removed 189,000 people from ACA coverage. Here is what that means. This is not a small audit finding. It is a signal that the rules of federal healthcare enrollment enforcement are being rewritten ...
Pope Leo XIV: Lung Screening’s Missed Millions
A surgeon in Rome removes the lower lobe of a pope's right lung. 🫁 The Vatican calls the surgery successful, no complications, cancer caught at a very early stage. That news traveled around the world ...
Medicare Advantage Mass Exit 2027
193 counties will have zero Medicare Advantage prescription drug plan options in 2027. 😳 That number was 123 counties in 2026, and it will keep climbing. According to reporting by Quartz and KFF data published ...
Healthleap $38M: AI Flags Hidden Diagnoses
Revenue up 10x. Sequoia and First Round both said yes. 🔬 When I read that Healthleap's revenue grew more than tenfold over the past year, I sat with that number for a minute. That is ...
2026 Radiation Oncology Coding Overhaul
Most radiation oncology programs missed the most expensive coding change of the decade. They are still reading the 2026 Medicare fee schedule. The real threat lives in commercial payer contracts that have not caught up. ...
California Prop. 44 FQHC Spending Mandate
Could a ballot measure close hundreds of California clinics right when they need every dollar to survive? 🤔 California's Proposition 44 is on the November ballot. On its face, the pitch sounds reasonable: require nonprofit ...








