Healthcare & Health Industry Wire2026-10-20Healthcare & Health Industry Wire — Week of October 20, 2026: A rectal cancer approval that can replace surgery, $90 million for AI clinical notes, and a 12-hospital Chicago mergerThis week's U.S. healthcare scan covers an immunotherapy approval that can replace surgery for some rectal cancers, $90 million for AI that drafts clinical notes, new Medicare plan rules on provider directories and drug middlemen, and a 12-hospital Chicago merger.1
Healthcare & Health Industry Wire2026-10-13Healthcare & Health Industry Wire — Week of October 13, 2026: Drugmakers sue over Medicare's price model, an AI that spots missed diagnoses, and four Louisiana hospitals for saleThis week's U.S. healthcare scan covers drugmakers' lawsuit over Medicare's new pricing model, a first-in-class antiviral for resistant herpes infections, a $38 million round for AI that finds missed diagnoses, the 2027 Medicare plan ratings, and four Louisiana hospitals for sale.11
Healthcare & Health Industry Wire2026-10-06Healthcare & Health Industry Wire — Week of October 6, 2026: A grow-with-a-child heart valve, a mandatory drug-price model, and a 22-hospital mergerThis week's U.S. healthcare scan covers the FDA's first grow-with-a-child pulmonary heart valve, two drugs approved for new patient groups, a mandatory Medicare drug-pricing model and a price-transparency rewrite, four more rural-health awards, and a proposed 22-hospital Minnesota system.32
Healthcare & Health Industry Wire2026-09-29Healthcare & Health Industry Wire — Week of September 29, 2026: Five new drugs, a $340 million clinical AI round, and 315,000 canceled enrollmentsThis week's U.S. healthcare scan covers a $340 million clinical-AI financing, five novel drugs the FDA approved in six days led by a first-in-class Parkinson's treatment, Medicare's projected 2027 premium decline, 315,000 canceled Marketplace enrollments and a freeze on new broker registrations, and a 36-center urgent care acquisition.22
Healthcare & Health Industry Wire2026-09-22Healthcare & Health Industry Wire — Week of September 22, 2026: A Medicare lab-price reset, a $600 million benefits raise, and a 5-2 merger voteThis week's U.S. healthcare scan covers Angle Health's $600 million raise for small-employer coverage, the first drug approved for the movement disorder of ataxia-telangiectasia, Medicare's plan to pay labs closer to private rates, a 5-2 vote advancing the Atrium-WakeMed merger, and how to check a fat-dissolving injection.12
Healthcare & Health Industry Wire2026-09-15Healthcare & Health Industry Wire — Week of September 15, 2026: A muscle-loss drug, a $3.4 billion Medicare takedown, and a $700 million hospital voteThis week's U.S. healthcare scan covers Forus's $150 million medication-access raise, the first spinal muscular atrophy therapy aimed at muscle loss, a $3.4 billion Medicare equipment fraud crackdown, a Tennessee county's vote on a $700 million hospital sale, and how to check an equipment claim.2
Healthcare & Health Industry Wire2026-09-08Healthcare & Health Industry Wire — Week of September 8, 2026: Cancer care, rural connection, and guarded dealsThis week's U.S. healthcare scan covers Thyme Care's cancer-navigation financing, two FDA approvals, Michigan rural-health funding, a conditioned hospital acquisition, and a practical flu-vaccination action.11
Healthcare & Health Industry Wire2026-09-01Healthcare & Health Industry Wire — Week of September 1, 2026: Capital, approvals, and rural accountabilityA weekly U.S. healthcare scan covering Arintra's $25 million raise, two FDA approvals, CMS enforcement and Arkansas rural-health funding, a Minnesota hospital combination, and a practical pancreatic-cancer symptom check.22
Healthcare & Health Industry Wire2026-08-25Healthcare & Health Industry Wire — Week of August 18, 2026: Rural scale, robotic draws, and federal access dollarsThis week’s scan covers Cityblock’s $116 million Series E and Homeward deal, Happy Health’s $75 million home-sleep raise, FDA’s Aletta robotic blood-draw authorization and Genglycos gene-therapy approval, CMS’s $144 million Alabama rural awards, two hospital transactions, and a practical sleep-apnea checklist.2
Healthcare & Health Industry Wire2026-08-18Healthcare & Health Industry Wire — Week of August 11, 2026: Virtual care consolidates as coverage and hospital access shiftThis week’s scan covers DocGo’s $52 million virtual-care acquisition, Hippocratic AI’s coordinated voice-agent launch, an FDA veterinary emergency authorization, a new Medicaid and CHIP funding rule, three hospital transactions, and a practical childhood-immunization check.22
Healthcare & Health Industry Wire2026-08-11Healthcare & Health Industry Wire — Week of August 4, 2026LifeMine's $263 million financing, two FDA drug approvals, CMS's FY 2027 hospital payment rule, a completed Georgia hospital acquisition, and a practical melanoma-awareness tip.1
Healthcare & Health Industry Wire2026-08-04Healthcare & Health Industry Wire — Week of July 28, 2026Function Health's $450M preventive-health financing, the FDA's first U.S. freeze-dried plasma license, CMS's health-data ecosystem update, an emergency Oregon hospital affiliation exemption, and a practical home blood-pressure measurement guide.