Medicaid

Pear Suite's platform will give community health workers tools to identify and tackle social determinants of health challenges like food insecurity.

The company aims to simplify the Medicaid enrollment and recertification process and will use the funds to expand into new states and scale its infrastructure.

The platform promotes utilization across critical, non-primarily health-related need areas, including food, pest control and transportation.   

The company will use the funds to scale operations and expedite growth in Medicare and ICHRA.

The company announced a $10 million Series B raise last year.

This week's top stories include racial and ethnic minority enrollees reporting significantly worse experiences around care access compared to whites, and Amazon Care expanding in-person offerings to 20 new cities.

Around two million people receive coverage through Massachusetts' Medicaid program.

This week's top stories include Amazon expanding its hybrid virtual/in-person care; Cityblock raising money to expand its platform for Medicaid and low-income populations; and AHIP wanting more time for insurers to implement a surprise billing rule.

This week's top stories include the VA flagging unreliable IT infrastructure cost estimates for its EHR modernization program, a new Alzheimer's drug that could cost Medicaid more than $2 billion, and Amazon using radar for monitoring sleep.

Newly unveiled Circulo shares investors and a CEO with the healthcare automation unicorn.