Baba Secures $40M Series A Funding For AI-Powered Medicare Navigation
The AI company plans to use the funding to further its research, reach more health plans and accelerate value-based arrangements, executives say.
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Mental Health Clinicians Found To Have Ghost Networks
A secret shopper study found less than a quarter of calls to mental health clinicians resulted in appointments, with directory errors and unreachable providers driving so-called "ghost" networks.
Health Tech & AI
Hugging Face Releases AI Biology Model For DNA Analysis
The new open-source model speaks the language of DNA and can help researchers understand the effects of any changes on gene activity and health.
Payers & Policy
Insurers Expand Into New Affordable Care Act Markets
The major insurers are entering new Affordable Care Act markets as others are leaving the exchanges en masse, though in the cases of Centene and UnitedHealthcare, county additions paper over larger state exits.
Health Tech & AI
Hackers Exploit PHP Vulnerabilities Before Patches Released
Amazon Web Services logged attempts to leverage the internet-melting PHP2Shell bugs four days ago. They’re now being “broadly exploited” across the internet.
Health Tech & AI
Mark Zuckerberg Agrees To Stay In California
Meta’s board feared that its CEO’s departure could disrupt the company’s AI ambitions. A new stock agreement gives him financial incentives to stay put.
Payers & Policy
Elevance sees Medicaid momentum in Q3
States jacked up their Medicaid rates in July, a positive development for the insurer. Elevance now thinks its Medicaid margin will be better than its prior expectation of -1.75% this year.