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Fundraising at Every Stage: Top Tips for Digital Health Startups
Learn how to make the fundraising process go as smoothly – and as quickly – as possible as a digital health startup — whether you're raising for the first time or you're a Series C company preparing for exit.
Point Solution Fatigue, Meet M&A: How Strategic Transactions Can Transform Digital Health
Explore how strategic mergers and acquisitions (M&A) can reduce or even eliminate point solution fatigue by creating more comprehensive and integrated platforms that will improve patient care and reduce administrative burden.
Breaking Down the Proposed 2025 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule: Key Takeaways for Digital Health Innovators
Navigating Reimbursement Strategies in the Food as Medicine Space
One of the key factors in FaM’s growth is reimbursement policy across various payors and providers. This post introduces reimbursement frameworks and strategies that support the FaM space, including medical nutrition therapy (MNT), medically tailored meals (MTM), the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), and employer-sponsored benefits programs.
The 2023 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule Proposed Rule: Everything You Need to Know Now
New Reimbursement for Digital Mental Health Treatment in the 2025 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule Proposed Rule
In the recently released 2025 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule Proposed Rule (the “Proposed Rule”), the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) created a new reimbursement pathway for “Digital Mental Health Treatment” (DMHT) devices and services.
CMS Proposes New Reimbursement for Advanced Primary Care Management Services
Roe v. Wade for Healthcare Businesses: International Implications of the Reversal of Roe v. Wade
The Proposed 2025 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule Has Arrived! Key Takeaways for Digital Health Innovators
Below is an overview of the most important proposals and the opportunities for healthcare innovators and digital health companies from the 2025 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule Proposed Rule
Demystifying FDA Regulation of AI-Powered Digital Health Tools: What You Need to Know Before You Launch
Food as Medicine Summit 2024: 4 Challenges FaM Innovators Face
At the most recent Food as Medicine (FaM) Summit, leading experts, policymakers, and healthcare innovators in FaM gathered to discuss one important goal: revolutionizing how we improve population health through food and nutritional guidance.
Here’s what we believe every healthcare and FaM innovator should know.
Digital Therapeutics Alliance Summit 2024: 5 Takeaways for DTx Innovators
The Digital Therapeutics Alliance Summit 2024, held in Washington, D.C., brought together over 500 industry leaders (including NLG’s own Carrie Nixon and Michael Schellhous), innovators, and key stakeholders to discuss the current state and future of digital therapeutics (DTx).
FTC Finalizes Changes to Health Breach Notification Rule: What Digital Health Companies and App Developers Need to Know
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) finalized changes to the Health Breach Notification Rule (HBNR), clarifying its applicability to health apps and similar technologies, including those that are not subject to HIPAA. In 2023, FTC began enforcing the HBNR in earnest, with an expanded interpretation of their authority under the HBNR. In the 2024 Final Rule (the 2024 Final Rule), the agency conforms the HBNR to this expanded interpretation, clarifying its breadth for industry and the public.
Invest in LGBTQ+ Founders
Nixon Law Group’s List of Venture Funds and Accelerators for LGBTQ+ Founders
FDA Enforcement Discretion: A Strategic Path to Market for Digital Health and Digital Therapeutics Companies
Healthcare delivery is changing, and digital health is revolutionizing healthcare, creating a burgeoning market opportunity for software-as-a-medical-device (SaMD) and digital therapeutic (DTx) products.