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WEX CEO: Why Being Agile Is As Important As Being Innovative
January 21, 2019

Innovation is good, but flexibility and agility count, too — as does striking while it’s hot. Those are among the factors that drove the recent acquisition of Discovery Benefits, Inc. (DBI), an employee benefits administrator, by financial technology services company WEX. Get the Full Story Complete the...

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305M+ Healthcare Claims Were Paid Via ACH In 2018
January 17, 2019

New data found that more than 306.7 million automated clearing house (ACH) electronic funds transfer (EFT) payments were made from health plans to healthcare providers last year. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS...

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Microsoft/Walgreens Deal Heats Up Digital Healthcare War
January 15, 2019

Healthcare done digitally is attracting the attention and the dollars of tech giants, linking them with brick-and-mortar players in a push to meld tech and retail. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS...

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Walmart Ditches CVS As Pharmacy Partner
January 15, 2019

CVS Health, the drugstore chain operator, announced Tuesday (Jan. 15) that Walmart has chosen to leave the CVS Caremark pharmacy benefit management (PBM) commercial and Managed Medicaid retail pharmacy networks. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free...

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How Payment Plans Could Cure A $7.5B Medical Malady
January 15, 2019

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Are Patients Really Gaining More Power Over Healthcare Pricing?
January 11, 2019

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Healthcare Payments’ ‘30 Pct Of The 30 Pct’ Problem
December 05, 2018

Health care is changing, and patients are footing an ever larger portion of the bill.  That makes for an onerous debt burden at times - and providers are scrambling to collect on the bills. John Talaga, CEO of Flywire's OnPlan, discusses how tech can be...

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Fitness Tracker Incentives And The New World Of Health Commerce
November 29, 2018

On the surface, the idea seems deeply pragmatic — a thought that comes straight from the storied intellectual school of “well, duh!” and a tradition that reveres Captain Obvious as the paragon of philosophical truth. Yes, it seems very smart to use fitness trackers, such as...

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Amazon Ups The Ante In Healthcare
November 28, 2018

Healthcare is proving a greenfield opportunity to big tech firms like Amazon and Apple, and retailers like Walmart. Here's why the Hippocratic Oath is likely to be, increasingly, rendered in bits and bytes.