News 12/10/25

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CVS Health ups its total revenue guidance for 2026 to $400 billion, citing momentum across Aetna, CVS Caremark, and CVS Pharmacy, and the breakeven potential of its Health Care Delivery Business. The company will also launch an AI-based engagement platform that will it scale across its businesses.

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Acquisitions, Funding, Business, and Stock

Empathy Health Technologies raises $7.6 million, bringing the startup’s total funding to $11.4 million. The company offers the Sober Sidekick app for peer and professional support during recovery.

Canada’s Competition Bureau obtains a court order allowing it to move forward with its investigation of Well Health’s acquisition of Healwell, parent company of Orion Health. The investigation will seek to determine if the acquisitions have stifled competition within the AI transcription market. In addition to health IT, Well Health Technologies operates over 200 clinics in Canada.

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Announcements and Implementations

Athenahealth will give AthenaOne users access to Microsoft’s Dragon Copilot tool as a part of the EHR, practice management, billing, and patient engagement system’s ambient note-taking capabilities.

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Other

ProPublica looks at the methods some FQHCs use to settle patient debts, with some sending balances of as little as $25 to collections and others escalating to lawsuits. Eastern Shore Rural Health (VA), for example, has filed more than 7,000 lawsuits for unpaid bills over the last 10 years. Community Health Center of Southeast Kansas founder Krista Postai points out that, “If your goal is really keeping people healthier, it makes more sense to deliver care at the lowest cost possible and not drive them into ERs and hospitals.”

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