Anastassia Gliadkovskaya

New York

Senior Writer at Fierce Healthcare

Host at Podnosis Podcast

Covering health equity @FierceHealth. Ex Stabile @ColumbiaJourn @PulitzerCenter @Forbes @THECITYNY. 📥 [email protected]

Articles

Ayble Health partners with Priority Health to expand access to digestive health

1 week ago | fiercehealthcare.com | Anastassia Gliadkovskaya

Ayble Health, a virtual GI clinic, has teamed up with Priority Health, a nonprofit health plan in Michigan, to offer commercial members access to the digestive health solution. Ayble relies on a multidisciplinary care team, AI-powered nutrition and psychology programs and wellness tools to manage symptoms. Starting June 1, Ayble will be available as a standard benefit for Priority members who have a MyPriority HMO or employer health plan. More than 500,000 adult members will have access.
Limbic launches voice AI agent to help behavioral health orgs with patient intake

2 weeks ago | fiercehealthcare.com | Anastassia Gliadkovskaya

Limbic, a maker of clinical AI tools for mental healthcare, is rolling out a new voice AI agent to help connect patients to behavioral health services, Fierce Healthcare has learned in an exclusive. The tool, Limbic Intake Agent, will be rolling out over the next few weeks to several of the company's U.S. partners. These include health systems, community mental health centers, CCBHCs, telehealth companies and nonprofit behavioral health providers such as Rogers Behavioral Health.
Zocdoc launches voice AI agent Zo to streamline bookings by phone

2 weeks ago | fiercehealthcare.com | Anastassia Gliadkovskaya

Zocdoc, a platform for scheduling and booking doctor’s appointments, has launched a voice AI agent called Zo to book appointments by phone. The phone assistant is aimed at removing wait time bottlenecks for patients and providers, engaging like a human with conversational language to make appointments. Zo can handle an unlimited number of inbound scheduling calls and can schedule appointments 24/7.
A pulse check on healthcare 100 days in

2 weeks ago | fiercehealthcare.com | Dave Muoio |Noah Tong |Emma Beavins |Anastassia Gliadkovskaya
Willow, Canopie to offer 1M hours of free mental health resources for new moms in May

2 weeks ago | fiercehealthcare.com | Anastassia Gliadkovskaya

Willow, a maker of wearable breast pumps, and the maternal mental health app developer Canopie plan to offer free mental health resources to new moms throughout the month May. The partners will offer up to one million hours of resources to support moms in postpartum, via the Canopie app. That includes a behavioral health assessment to develop a personalized support plan, plus on-demand therapeutic programs and clinician-led virtual classes.
Human-centered design in healthcare

2 weeks ago | fiercehealthcare.com | Ayla Ellison |Anastassia Gliadkovskaya

Human-centered design is crucial in healthcare—but it’s often invisible. Rooted in systems thinking, it considers the broader ecosystems that shape patient needs. Design can make or break a patient’s experience. Yet many organizations don’t fully understand what this approach involves or how to implement it effectively. CannonDesign works across sectors, including healthcare, to help organizations design smarter.
US Supreme Court sides with HHS in Medicare DSH payments case

2 weeks ago | fiercehealthcare.com | Anastassia Gliadkovskaya

The Supreme Court has sided with HHS in a dispute over the formula used for calculating disproportionate share hospital (DSH) payments. The justices affirmed the lower court's 2023 decision, 7-to-2, that a person is considered entitled to Supplemental Security Income (SSI) benefits only when they are eligible to receive a cash payment during the month of their hospitalization. The ruling implies that HHS did not ultimately underfund those hospitals from 2006 to 2009, as the plaintiffs have argued.
Brightline opens its first in-person mental health clinic in New York for kids, with several more planned

3 weeks ago | fiercehealthcare.com | Anastassia Gliadkovskaya

Brightline, a pediatric mental health provider, has opened its first in-person clinic in Brooklyn, New York. Since 2019, Brightline has been providing virtual mental health services in five states. While it was always the company’s plan to be hybrid, executives said, COVID-19 had put that plan on hold until now. Brightline plans to open two additional clinics in the New York area later this year. Eight more clinics are scheduled for 2026, with exact regions to be determined.
Nutrition counseling startup Nourish clinches $70M to expand services

3 weeks ago | fiercehealthcare.com | Anastassia Gliadkovskaya

Nourish, a virtual nutrition counseling startup, has raised $70 million in a series B round. The round was led by new investor J.P. Morgan Private Capital’s Growth Equity Partners. Returning investors included Thrive Capital, Index Ventures, Y Combinator and others. The funding will be used to build out Nourish’s AI product, expand its provider network and pursue more strategic partnerships.
Managing diabetes with cultural foods

3 weeks ago | fiercehealthcare.com | Ayla Ellison |Anastassia Gliadkovskaya

About 1 in 10 people have diabetes, and 1 in 5 don’t even know they have it. Preventing and managing diabetes is only possible when you know where to start. Yumlish provides nutrition literacy to Medicaid and Medicare populations in a culturally diverse way. This week on "Podnosis," Senior Writer Anastassia Gliadkovskaya speaks with Yumlish founder and CEO Shireen Abdullah about the outcomes Yumlish is seeing and how federal budget cuts risk making diabetes prevalence worse.