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GoodRx Focuses on Affordability While Oscar Health Expands Market Amid Digital Growth
November 14, 2024

As digital tools and technology become an integral part of healthcare, two key players — GoodRx and Oscar Health — are making strides in the industry. Both companies have demonstrated solid financial performance while focusing on enhancing digital engagement and improving accessibility to healthcare services. Despite...

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Healthcare’s Working Capital Shift Strengthens Supplier Ties
November 07, 2024

The healthcare industry might be likened to a battleship when it comes to payments innovation. It’s massive and slow to turn, but once turned, the waves made are enormous. In the United States, for example, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services estimated that the...

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Oracle Health to Join US Government Health Information Sharing Program
October 28, 2024

Oracle Health plans to apply for status that will enable its healthcare customers to participate in the U.S. government’s nationwide approach to offering the sharing of health information between providers and payers, pharmaceutical companies and government agencies. The company has begun the process to become...

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 Bausch + Lomb Launches Digital Marketplace for Eye Care
October 24, 2024

In a move set to illuminate the eye care landscape, Bausch + Lomb Corporation launched Opal, an eCommerce marketplace designed to streamline the ordering process for contact lenses and, in the future, select over-the-counter products. The introduction of Opal reflects Bausch + Lomb’s commitment to...

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Software, Not Spreadsheets, Solves Healthcare’s Cash Flow Bottlenecks
October 24, 2024

For smaller healthcare providers, manual processes dominate the back office — and when it comes to reconciling remittances with deposits, pain points emerge that rival any sprain or bruise. Cash flows suffer. Productivity suffers too, because staff are so intricately involved in maintaining and updating...

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Cigna Debuts Digital Tools to Drive Cost Efficiencies and Enhance Breast Cancer Awareness
October 21, 2024

Breast cancer, the leading cost driver in oncology, poses formidable financial challenges for patients and healthcare providers alike. In response, Cigna Healthcare is prioritizing improved patient outcomes and cost management through partnerships and tailored support initiatives. At the heart of this strategy is Cigna’s collaboration...

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Update: How Digital Payments and Data Are Flipping the Script for Healthcare Payables
October 17, 2024

Doctor visits and medical bills are a fact of life. But occasionally the payments tables are turned in favor of the patient in the form of refunds or disbursements. It’s a happy event, to be sure, and sometimes an unexpected one. But all too often...

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CareCredit: Solving for the Wallet-Sized Gap in Women’s Healthcare Access
October 17, 2024

The invisible cost of caregiving continues to pose a challenge for women and mothers. Across America, women are making an impossible choice: prioritize their families’ needs or take care of their own health. With grocery bills climbing, healthcare costs rising and the pressure to juggle...

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ProviderTrust and Ntracts Partner to Help Healthcare Organizations Vet Vendors
October 14, 2024

ProviderTrust and Ntracts have partnered to give healthcare organizations clear visibility into their vendors’ payment eligibility at contracting and throughout contract execution. By bringing together ProviderTrust’s healthcare data and technology and Ntracts’ contract lifecycle management software for healthcare organizations, this collaboration aims to improve compliance...