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Your AI therapist needs a prescription now. The FDA just dropped a bombshell on mental health tech companies. At their November 2025 Digital Health Advisory Committee meeting, they outlined something unprecedented: generative AI chatbots for ...

The FDA just changed the game for medical innovation forever. On December 1, 2025, Commissioner Marty Makary announced something unprecedented: agentic AI deployment across the entire FDA. Not just chatbots. Not just automation. We're talking ...

34 years of newborn protection, gone with one committee vote. The CDC's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) just voted to end universal hepatitis B vaccination at birth, reversing a policy that's been in place ...

2.6 million seniors just lost their Medicare Advantage plans. That's not a typo. UnitedHealthcare, Humana, and Aetna are pulling back from Medicare Advantage in unprecedented ways for 2026: • UnitedHealthcare: Exiting 225 counties, entering only ...

Congress just saved hospital care at home for 5 more years 🏠 On December 1, the House passed the Hospital Inpatient Services Modernization Act, extending Medicare's Acute Hospital Care at Home waiver through 2030. This ...

CMS just dropped a bombshell on outpatient surgery centers. Starting in 2026, they're dismantling the Inpatient Only list over 3 years, beginning with 285 musculoskeletal procedures. But here's what nobody's talking about: 📊 ASCs get ...

40 health systems just gave Medicare Advantage the boot. That's right. In 2025 alone, 40 major hospital systems have terminated contracts with at least one Medicare Advantage plan. The reason? It's not pretty. Health system ...

30 million Americans could lose their doctors in 8 months. That's not hyperbole. The Community Health Center Fund expired September 30, 2025, and Congress hasn't acted other then a basic extension until January 30th, 2026. ...