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Congress just told insurers: AI cannot deny your care alone. 🔥 The Doctors Not AI Act lands at exactly the right moment. On September 1, 2026, Rep. Greg Landsman of Ohio introduced H.R. 10210, the ...

A doctor writes a prescription. The real nightmare starts after. Insurance approval. Prior authorization. Copay assistance paperwork. Specialty pharmacy routing. Most patients never even see this maze. They just wonder why their medication hasn't arrived. ...

More radiation on top of immunotherapy should help. It didn't. 🎯 The LONESTAR trial just changed how we should think about local consolidative therapy in metastatic NSCLC. For years, the logic seemed airtight. Debulk residual ...

40,000 Boston residents could lose Medicaid by January 2027. 🚨 And the city is not waiting around to find out what happens next. According to Boston.gov, Mayor Michelle Wu and the Boston Public Health Commission ...

That stat stopped me cold when I read it this week. 🛑 According to xtelligent Healthtech Analytics, a new study published in PLOS Digital Health evaluated all 1,357 AI and machine learning-enabled medical devices cleared ...

Everyone called WISeR a Medicare efficiency win. The records say otherwise. 🚨 This week the Electronic Frontier Foundation dropped approximately 1,000 pages of internal CMS documents showing what is actually happening inside Medicare's AI prior ...

90 million Americans can now screen for colorectal cancer with a blood draw. 🩸 This is the access story nobody is talking about enough. According to a September 1 announcement via Business Wire, Carelon Healthcare ...

A hospital CFO in Dallas sits down at his desk on Tuesday morning. 🏥 His balance sheet looks the same as Monday. His Medicaid funding does not. As of September 1, 2026, Texas hospitals are ...

Cancer care just hit a $2B valuation. No hospital built it. A startup built on virtual navigation did. 🎯 Thyme Care raised $125 million in a Series E round this week, pushing its valuation above ...