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US House takes on CBO health panel controversy

May 27, 2025
By Mark McCarty
The controversy over budget scoring by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) once again prompted legislation that would overhaul the membership of a health advisory panel that may affect legislation dealing with the Medicare program. The Health Panel Act of 2025 requires the panel be composed of six members each appointed by Republicans and Democrats. The bill's sponsor said this is crucial to ensure diversity of political views, which is said to be lacking as the panel is currently constituted.
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Otsuka, Click launch digital therapeutic for depression

Aug. 15, 2024
By Annette Boyle
Otsuka Precision Health Inc. and Click Therapeutics Inc. pondered the signature question of cognitive behavioral therapy when setting the market approach for their jointly developed prescription digital therapeutic for major depressive disorder, Rejoyn.
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Looking Better: Digital therapy reduces liver fat in 90 days

Feb. 20, 2024
By Annette Boyle
Better Therapeutics Inc.’s prescription digital therapeutic (PDT) received U.S. FDA breakthrough device designation for metabolic dysfunction-associated steatohepatitis (MASH), an advanced form of fatty liver disease that increases the risk of cirrhosis, liver failure and liver cancer but has few good treatments available.
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FDA designates digital therapy for schizophrenia a breakthrough device

Jan. 4, 2024
By Annette Boyle
The U.S. FDA granted breakthrough device designation for CT-155, a prescription digital therapeutic co-developed by Boehringer Ingelheim GmbH and Click Therapeutics Inc. to treat the negative symptoms of schizophrenia. Designed as an adjunctive to pharmaceutical therapy for schizophrenia, among the most challenging mental health conditions to treat, the PDT is one of several products in the collaboration’s pipeline.
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Digital therapeutics seek new path forward in 2024

Jan. 3, 2024
By Annette Boyle
After flying high in 2022, digital therapeutics (DTx) companies crashed to Earth in 2023 and scrambled to identify a path to profitability, or at least continued viability.
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Pear sliced into four parts at auction for $6M

May 30, 2023
By Annette Boyle
A financial freefall left prescription digital therapeutic pioneer Pear Therapeutics Inc. cut into four pieces following a bankruptcy judge’s approval of the sale of its assets for a total of $6.05 million. Sleep-focused Nox Health Group took the biggest bite, acquiring the FDA-cleared Somryst PDT for $3.9 million. Other buyers included Harvest Bio LLC, Click Therapeutics Inc. and Welt Corp. Ltd. The total generated from the assets was woefully short of the company’s $32 million in debt.
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That rots: Pear declares bankruptcy

April 10, 2023
By Annette Boyle
Pear Therapeutics Inc. filed for bankruptcy protection under chapter 11 to buy time to sell its assets. The company was the first-to-market for prescription digital therapies, with three PDTs gaining regulatory nods from the FDA: Reset for substance use disorder, Reset-O for opioid use disorder and Somryst for insomnia. Reset-A received breakthrough device designation in 2021. The Reset therapies are approved for use in conjunction with medication therapy or other outpatient therapy for substance use.
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Slow uptake, roiled markets take a bite out of Pear: PDT company seeks strategic alternatives

March 17, 2023
By Annette Boyle
March 17 brought neither good luck nor good news to Pear Therapeutics Inc. Just prior to the opening bell, the prescription digital therapeutics company reported that it had engaged MTSA Health Partners LP to explore strategic alternatives for the company. In addition, Pear filed an 8-K with the SEC withdrawing its revenue and operating guidance for fiscal 2022 and 2023 and indicating that it does not plan to hold a fourth quarter and full year 2022 earnings conference call and webcast.
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German doctors reluctant to prescribe health apps

Aug. 26, 2022
By Bernard Banga
German regulators have unveiled their initial report covering the prescription and deployment of reimbursable health apps. The survey was carried out by Hamburg-based health insurance fund Techniker Krankenkasse (TK) in conjunction with Bielefeld University in North Rhine-Westphalia and health care economics analysis research bureau Vandage GmbH, also based in Bielefeld.
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A Better option for type 2 diabetes?

July 28, 2022
By Annette Boyle
Better Therapeutics Inc. reported that the pivotal trial for its BT-001 prescription digital therapy (PDT) demonstrated significant decreases in hemoglobin A1c at 90 days that improved further at 180 days in participants with type 2 diabetes. The study showed a clear dose-response between greater use of the PDT and improvements in blood glucose levels.
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