{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Health Tech Nerds Radio","title":"The Grand Roundup: Oscar's Investor Day, Alignment Health's mysterious 35% drop, OpenEvidence's oncology pivot, Walmart's GLP-1 pharmacist pilot, and more","html":"<iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless src=\"https://share.transistor.fm/e/7462ef56\"></iframe>","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":3631,"description":"Kevin and Martin open with a wild AI story: a personal-assistant app is now negotiating discounts with telehealth vendors on users' behalf, opening up some genuinely strange territory around bots negotiating with other bots.\nFrom there it's Oscar's Investor Day: Bertolini's pitch that the individual market is a $350 billion opportunity, the ICHRA/Choice and Lucie marketplace ambitions, and whether any of it holds up against a shakier ACA market and skeptical brokers. Then Alignment Health, down 35% this week during CMS's Stars blackout, and OpenEvidence's confusing week — a $250 million raise at a lower valuation than they reportedly turned down over the summer, plus a surprise pivot into drug development.\n\nQuick hits close the show: Thatch's $108 million raise, Walmart's new Scan partnership and pharmacist health-coaching pilot, and RCM moves at Waystar and Datavant.\nBrought to you by\nLorikeet is a leading platform health tech companies use to build, test, and deploy AI concierges for patient and provider support. lorikeetcx.ai/healthtech\nLinks referenced\nForbes article on OpenEvidence's $250M raise and Memorial Sloan Kettering partnership: https://www.forbes.com/sites/innovationrx/2026/09/16/a-premier-cancer-hospital-makes-its-data-available-to-doctors-nationwide-through-openevidence/\n\nFor more from Health Tech Nerds, subscribe to our weekly newsletters: https://www.healthtechnerds.com/subscribe","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/y84Rj-3Zru2TSHB3gg7QPKSw1QK5xTylJGdWYgSYt5g/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS85MmYw/N2JiYjk1MjQ4NTAy/YzJiZDg1NzYyY2E2/NmI0ZS5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}