A nurse staffing bill in Minnesota, which exempted the Mayo Clinic, failed to get legislative approval on Monday.

Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts has added Tufts Medicine to its pay-for-equity financial payment model.  Blue Cross said it is the first health plan in Massachusetts — and among the first in the nation — to introduce contracts linking financial incentives to achieving measurable improvements in health equity.

There’s an increasing buzz among patients for GLP-1 weight loss drugs, such as Novo Nordisk’s Ozempic and Wegovy, but if patient demand continues to grow and Medicare expanded its coverage in response, it could cost the federal program between $13.6 and $26.8 billion annually.

IT, telehealth, clinical decision support, wellness tools and diagnostics all fall into the same category, says Jessica Hauflaire, COO of the Digital Therapeutics Alliance. Digital therapeutics consist of software as a direct intervention to treat, manage or prevent medical conditions.