Health:Further 168 - The Hidden Medicaid Crisis No One Is Ready For
Vic and guest host Dr. Kam Matthews cover the week’s major healthcare, policy, and AI stories, including Medicaid funding threats, provider-network gaps, economic updates, new VC raises, and major clinical and pharma developments. They discuss wealth-tax proposals, insurer policy changes, hospital system financials, new maternal and SDOH AI tools, obesity-drug price cuts, and breakthroughs in cancer and antiviral treatments, closing with updates on AI market shifts, Nvidia’s earnings, and Google’s Gemini release.
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4:25 - Hiring Defied Expectations in September, With 119,000 New Jobs WSJ
10:22 - Thrivory Raises $3.5M in Equity Funding; Up To $25M in Credit Funding FinSMES
11:36 - Function Health Hits $2.5B Valuation With $298M Series B MedCity
14:40 - The California Campaign to Introduce a First-of-Its-Kind Billionaire’s Tax WSJ
21:25 - When the G.O.P. Medicaid Cuts Arrive, These Hospitals Will Be Hit Hardest NYT
23:38 - Jury orders Apple to pay Masimo $634M in patent fight Healthcare Dive
25:31 - Humana, Epic collaborate to automate insurance verification, patient check-in Fierce Healthcare
27:22 - Medical orgs press Anthem to pull back out-of-network care policy Fierce Healthcare
29:41 - Aetna unveils new conversational AI navigation tool for members Fierce Healthcare
31:48 - Medicaid Insurers Promise Lots of Doctors. Good Luck Seeing One. WSJ
36:30 -Cigna to launch new transparent health plan called Clearity Fierce Health