San Diego – November 02, 2026 -- Ivy Fertility has launched Sage Reproductive Center, a Midwestern practice of five physicians operating six clinics in St. Louis, Milwaukee and Chicago, lifting the national network to 75 physicians across 18 practices and 35 locations in 12 states.

The launch takes Ivy Fertility into three new Midwestern states. Sage brings together four reproductive endocrinologists and one obstetrician-gynecologist.

NEW YORK – November 02, 2026 -- Healthcare fintech Superscript is opening its real-time patient pricing platform to any U.S. medical practice or EHR vendor through a new API, covering 3,379 services across 27 specialties.

The platform already serves 1,500 active providers in orthopedics, urgent care and multispecialty groups. It has reached more than 500,000 patients and processed 2.2 million patient billing transactions. athenahealth ranked Superscript its fastest-growing marketplace partner in September.

JOHANNESBURG – November 02, 2026 -- EASE Holdings BV has secured US$9.5 million in additional equity from AAFC Group Inc, lifting its total equity to US$24 million. The medical equipment-as-a-service provider will use the funds to scale operations in South Africa and Ghana.

AAFC Group is a U.S.-based investor in emerging-market asset-backed finance. EASE will combine the new equity with its debt facilities to grow its installed base of advanced, increasingly AI-enhanced medical devices.

Lombardy – November 02, 2026 -- Bracco held the second Global CEUS Steering Committee in Munich with 14 international experts in contrast-enhanced ultrasound (CEUS), and the group will now meet every year.

The meeting took place alongside the EUROSON School. Participants included specialists from several clinical fields and regions, as well as representatives of Bracco Medical and R&D. The initiative began in China in 2025, when Bracco first assembled CEUS experts across specialties and geographies.

UNITED STATES – November 02, 2026 -- CEOs of community-based health plans told the ACHP Symposium that regional insurers can use their smaller size to move faster than larger rivals, even as tighter margins, regulatory change and rising costs squeeze the sector.

Bexar County, Texas – November 02, 2026 -- Community First Health Plans (CFHP) generated a 2.2X return on investment in the first year of its Third-Party Payment (TPP) program, and the net profit far exceeded implementation and service fees.

Sponsored members accounted for 87% of CFHP's 2022 enrollments

The Texas-based health plan piloted the hospital-sponsorship model, also called Payvider, in 2022. Sponsored members made up 87% of CFHP's enrollments that year.

United States – November 02, 2026 -- Marketplace insurers are proposing a median 15% premium increase for 2027, and Softheon is offering health plans a free 20-minute consultation to find operational bottlenecks before open enrollment (OE) volume peaks.

SPRINGFIELD – November 01, 2026 -- Baystate Health has folded Baystate Mercy Hospital, its joint venture affiliates and 45 Massachusetts medical group entities into one system, and switched the combined organization to a new Oracle Health Electronic Health Record (EHR) on the same day.

BOSTON – November 01, 2026 -- More than 4,000 registered nurses at Brigham and Women's Hospital will begin an open-ended strike at 7 a.m. on November 12 after rejecting Mass General Brigham's (MGB) "last, best, and final" contract offer. The Massachusetts Nurses Association (MNA), which represents the nurses, describes the action as the largest open-ended strike in Massachusetts history.

Osnabrück – October 31, 2026 -- The share of births with one-to-one midwife care during the key phase of labor has doubled from one in four to one in two since Germany's nationwide midwife services contract took effect, according to the statutory health insurers' association GKV-Spitzenverband.