168 - The Hidden Medicaid Crisis No One Is Ready For
Description
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
6:51 - WellBeam closes $10 Million Series A to Transform Clinical Interoperability and Care Coordination between Acute and Post-Acute Providers GlobeNewswire
9:01 -FamilyWell Health Secures $8 M Series A Led by Maryland’s New Markets Venture Partners Amid National Expansion CityBiz
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





















