News 5/18/26

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Kin Health raises $9 million in seed funding. The startup has developed an AI notetaking app with which patients can record their appointments, obtain and share a summary of the visit, and prepare for follow-up visits. The company will soon start working on integrating patient health data from outside sources.

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Optivate names Brad Caldwell (Careficient) CEO.

Vivian Wang (Taroko) joins Kin Health as head of growth.

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Ambulatory value-based care company Aledade will integrate Doximity’s AI medical scribe, clinical AI assistant, and medical search engine into its Assist clinical insights software.

Research and Innovation

Despite an overwhelming willingness to engage with digital health tools, a CVS Health survey of Medicare patients finds that most feel that low levels of digital health literacy are negatively impacting their health management. Navigation, including cybersecurity education, was cited as the biggest barrier.

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News 5/13/26

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9amhealth raises $26 million in Series B funding, bringing its total raised to nearly $60 million. The company offers a virtual cardiometabolic care platform to employers, payers, and pharmacy benefit managers.

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Evergreen Nephrology names Eugenia Timm (Optum) COO.

Danny Krifcher (Millenium Physician Group) joins Oshi Health as president and COO.

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TriageLogic announces GA of MedMessage Automate, its clinically guided, automated patient intake software.

Software development company Tech Exactly launches a HIPAA-compliant Development Service for digital health startups.

Research and Innovation

A report on physician employment trends finds that 82% of physicians are now employed by hospitals or other corporations, and that 64% of physician practices are owned by similar entities. Corporations and hospitals acquired nearly 14,000 practices between 2024 and 2026, with corporate backers purchasing the larger share.

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News 5/11/26

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Basata, a healthcare AI company focused on helping specialty-focused practices automate administrative workflows, announces $21 million in Series A funding.

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Online-based audiology provider Treble Health acquires Silicon Valley Hearing, expanding its brick-and-mortar presence to three clinics.

Pediatric EHR vendor Develo secures $14 million in its latest funding round.

In Massachusetts, Innovative Care Partners will lay off 70 employees and scale back care coordination services due to state funding cuts and a policy change related to ACOs and care coordination services. The organization primarily collaborates with the Center for Human Development, the Gandara Center, and mental health and human services provider ServiceNet.

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David Rankey, MD (Optum) joins Wellvana as chief medical officer.

Tellihealth names Kim Johnson, DNP (Percipio Health) VP of customer success.

Announcements and Implementations

Veradigm will launch Health Network Architecture to help independent practices connect the clinical and financial systems they already use.

Family Health Centers (KY) implements Sunoh.ai’s AI medical scribe software.

Government and Politics

Feliciano Serrano, MD and Serrano Kidney & Vascular Access Center (CA) will pay nearly $6.75 million to settle allegations of submitting false claims for medically unnecessary procedures for 20 Medicare patients over an eight-year period. Serrano has been accused of falsely documenting patient symptoms and therapies within medical records to justify billing for the unnecessary procedures.

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News 5/6/26

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Village announces $9.5 million in new funding. The company’s Ai-powered platform assists families in finding and coordinating pediatric care amongst specialty providers.

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XCaliber Health, a developer of agentic AI for clinical and administrative workflows, raises $6.5 million in seed funding.

CVS Health reports a 6.2% increase in Q1 revenue to $100.4 billion. All of its business units – Aetna, health services, and retail pharmacy – surpassed analyst expectations. The company launched health technology services subsidiary Health100 last month. It will offer an agentic AI-powered digital health platform that helps consumers manage their health health across pharmacies, insurers, and providers.

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Bicycle Health promotes Travis Schamber, MD to chief medical officer and names Jennifer Haas chief marketing officer.

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A local news outlet highlights the increasingly important role free clinics play in providing healthcare to underserved and uninsured populations in California in the wake of One Big Beautiful Bill legislation: “We have nothing to lose monetarily from the federal government,” says Jewish Community Free Clinic Executive Director Donna Waldman. “Free clinics play a really important role in the resiliency of the community right now because we are independent organizations.”

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News 5/4/26

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Global investment firm Carlyle acquires US-based EqualizeRCM and Knack RCM, which has operations in the US, India, and the Philippines.

Carlyle’s deal with Knack was first reported on last August at a rumored $500 million valuation. Terms of the final deal have not been disclosed.

EqualizeRCM acquired competitor Revenue Cycle Solutions a month later.

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A federal jury in Texas convicts Barbara Marino, MD of illegally distributing 1 million pills of opioids and other controlled substances from her cash-only Angels Clinica practice in a Houston strip mall. Patients were brought in by local drug dealers, who filled their prescriptions and then sold them on the street. She faces up to 100 hundred years in jail.

Research and Innovation

University of California San Diego School of Medicine researchers determine that primary care providers who receive specialized dementia training and are equipped with clinical decision support tools within their EHRs are more likely to conduct screening and diagnostic visits, and to feel confident in doing so.

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Columbia Surgical Partners (TN) announces that a ransomware attack on Nashville-based parent company Advanced Diagnostic Imaging has compromised its EHR.

Outer Cape Health Services (MA) CEO Damian Archer says the community provider will provide up to half of its services virtually by the end of this year. Video visits currently account for 10% of its appointments across its three clinics, with nearly all behavioral health appointments taking place remotely. He expects the transition, which will cost nearly $1 million, to improve patient access, reduce waitlists, and help overcome staffing challenges.

Thomas Chittenden Health Center (VT) Physician Assistant Rick Dooley extols the benefits of using Heidi, an AI scribe solution provided to the independent primary care practice through the state’s now shuttered OneCare payment program. He expects the health center to gladly pick up the $100 monthly fee, noting that it’s less expensive than a transcription service.

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