Patient referrals to medical specialists can be a complicated, highly manual and slow process, leading to delays in patient care, payer denials and missed patients. | Health tech startup Tennr developed an AI model to fix the front office patient referral system by automating workflows and parsing through documents. It raised $101 million in series C funding to grow its business.

The Supreme Court has upheld a Tennessee law that bans gender affirming care for minors.  | The Court reasoned that the law, SB1, does not discriminate on the basis of sex, but rather a set of medical diagnoses: gender dysphoria, gender identity disorder and gender incongruence.

Hundreds of rural hospitals teetering on the edge of financial collapse could be pushed over the edge by healthcare funding cuts and other changes to coverage eligibility included the reconciliatio | Democratic senators said Thursday the current reconciliation bill’s Medicaid cuts will affect rural constituents across the country, citing data outlining at least 338 rural hospitals across the country with consistent negative margins or a high Medicaid payer mix.

National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant terminations have pulled almost $2 billion in funding away from U.S. | In a new analysis and policy article, Association of American Medical Colleges warns that “academic health systems can only absorb so much without significant harm to biomedical research, medical education and patient care.”

Medicare’s key advisory panel has released its latest report to Congress, and analysts note that spending on supplemental benefits in Medicare Advantage (MA) has grown significantly over the past s | Medicare’s key advisory panel has released its latest report to Congress, and analysts note that spending on supplemental benefits in Medicare Advantage has grown significantly over the past several years.