Healthcare procurement is dull by design. Buy what’s needed, stock a little extra, pay the bills later, repeat. Cost control meant negotiating harder with suppliers, not rethinking the system itself. It isn’t glamorous, but it works and was designed for continuity. After all, if supplies...
Innovation in U.S. healthcare is often narrated as a story of disruption. Think: bold startups, cutting-edge artificial intelligence (AI) and innovative technology. But that narrative, while appealing, obscures a more accurate and more useful truth. In healthcare, innovation rarely begins with disruption. Instead, it begins,...
Consumer health and wellness online retailer Health-E Commerce has launched a partnership with WEX. This collaboration will integrate the company’s FSA Store (flexible spending account) and HSA Store (health savings account) offerings into the WEX benefits portal, the companies said in a Monday (Jan. 12)...
Health and wellness providers who use Clover devices can now offer their patients CareCredit’s patient financing solution. The offering is enabled by an expanded integration of CareCredit parent company Synchrony with Clover, which is an all-in-one commerce solution from Fiserv, the companies said in a...
Healthcare is not typically filed under “payments innovation.” But across 2025, PYMNTS’ reporting treated the sector less like a purely clinical domain and more like a sprawling, regulated marketplace where the hardest problems are administrative, financial and increasingly digital. The common thread was not a...
For younger Americans, healthcare spending is becoming less about treating illness and more about managing financial risk at a stage of life when cash flow is thin and costs are unpredictable. That tension runs through “Economic Pressures Split the Generations as Each Rethinks the Basics,”...
Watch more: Need to Know: Luma’s Aditya Bansod For all the futuristic rhetoric surrounding healthcare innovation, the reality for most Americans remains largely analog. Appointment reminders still come by phone. Insurance authorizations require endless back-and-forth communication and many waiting rooms outside of large healthcare systems...
Software platforms serving education, healthcare and field services are adopting embedded payments at a pace that signals a shift in how these industries want to transact. The new angle in PYMNTS Intelligence’s latest Payment Processing Tracker, “Vertical-First Payments: How Low-Code Wins in Education, Healthcare and...
CharmHealth added artificial intelligence-driven automation and integrated payment solutions to its medical billing platform, CharmBillerPro. The additions are part of a complete redesign of the platform, which aims to help medical billing firms address the growing complexity of revenue cycle management, the company said in...