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Healthcare
Weave Launches Payment Plans for Patients
February 13, 2024

Healthcare experience platform Weave is introducing payment plans to its payments suite, enabling customers to pay their bills in installments. Payment Plans will allow healthcare businesses to set up and manage recurring payment schedules, Weave said in a Tuesday (Feb. 13) news release.  Customers can create a payment...

Healthcare
Connecticut Will Cancel $650 Million in Medical Debt
February 04, 2024

Connecticut reportedly plans to cancel $650 million in medical debt for its residents. This relief will impact around 250,000 people and will make Connecticut the first state in the country to undertake such an effort, CNN reported Friday (Feb. 2).  The goal is to free residents from...

Healthcare
Waystar and Meditech Team on Healthcare Payments
February 01, 2024

Healthcare payments firm Waystar has launched a collaboration with electronic health records provider Meditech. The partnership, announced Thursday (Feb. 1), lets healthcare organizations that use Meditech leverage Waystar’s platform to simplify their financial operations. “As administrative expenses increasingly weigh on the U.S. healthcare system, partnerships like Waystar and Meditech...

Healthcare
Rectangle Health Launches Healthcare Practice Management Platform
January 30, 2024

Rectangle Health, a provider of patient engagement, payments and office compliance solutions for healthcare providers, has launched an all-in-one platform. The new Practice Management Bridge aims to drive the growth of healthcare providers by seamlessly integrating patient engagement, revenue acceleration, and practice compliance management into a single...

Healthcare
The Role of Wellness Financing in Improving Health Outcomes and Building Customer Loyalty
January 30, 2024

Financial health is a core component of overall health. The connection between financial stability and health is well established, and providing financial options can have positive ripple effects on various aspects of consumers’ lives. That’s particularly when taking into account the fact that the consumer...

Prescriptions
GoodRx Leads Provider Ranking of Prescription Apps for Sixth Straight Month
January 29, 2024

During flu season, you want to be on top of your strategy on how to quickly get better if you’re sick. Each month, PYMNTS tracks the most popular mobile apps in the prescription space for the Provider Ranking of Prescription Apps. By observing app use...

Healthcare
Forta Health Pulls in $55 Million to Bridge Autism Caregiver Gaps Using AI
January 29, 2024

Autism diagnoses are on the rise in children all over the world. In the U.S., for example, Autism Speaks reports that one in 36 children and one in 45 adults have been diagnosed with some level of autism spectrum disorder (ASD), up from just two...

Healthcare
J&J Sees Surge in MedTech Sales Post-Kenvue Split 
January 23, 2024

Six months after parting ways with its consumer health unit, Kenvue, Johnson & Johnson has reported total sales of $21.4 billion for the last quarter of 2023, a 7.3% increase from the corresponding quarter in 2022.  The pharmaceutical giant disclosed a net income of $4.13 billion,...

Healthcare
Doctor on Demand Dominates Provider Ranking of Telemedicine Apps
January 23, 2024

The new year often ushers in a case of the winter sniffles, but help is just a click away. With lots of choices in the world of online healthcare, PYMNTS is here to help you sort them out with the Provider Ranking of Telemedicine Apps. This...