LEHI, Utah--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct 12, 2026--
Weave (NYSE: WEAV), a leading AI-powered patient communications and payments platform purpose-built for healthcare practices, today announced the live availability of its integration with CareCredit, a leading patient financing solution from Synchrony (NYSE: SYF). The integration gives front-office staff real-time visibility into a patient's financing options directly within Weave — bringing one of healthcare's hardest conversations forward, before the appointment begins.
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For most patients, the question of how to pay comes last: after the exam, after the recommendation, often as a surprise at checkout. That timing has consequences. Out-of-pocket costs remain one of the most common reasons patients delay or decline treatment. By surfacing a patient's CareCredit status and available credit at the start of the visit, Weave replaces sticker shock with an informed conversation — and gives practices a way to solve cost alongside the patient rather than let it stand between them and care.
It's also the latest expression of Weave's single-system approach: financing no longer lives in a separate portal, but inside the workflow where the front office already works.
"Affordability is one of the defining challenges facing patients, and practices are navigating shrinking margins at the same time," said Marcus Bertilson, Chief Operating Officer at Weave. "By making CareCredit a native part of the front-office experience, we're giving practices the tools to meet patients where they are financially — and to move more care forward. When staff can see a patient's available credit before the appointment, cost stops being the obstacle and starts being part of the plan."
Key benefits of the integration include:
"The Weave team has built a seamless experience for practices that want to offer CareCredit at the point of care," said Greg Pierce, SVP Network Solutions at Synchrony (CareCredit). "When financing options are visible earlier in the patient journey — at a moment when clearer options can make a real difference — practices can have more confident conversations, and more patients move forward with the treatment they need."
To learn more about Weave Payments, visit https://www.getweave.com/carecredit/.
About Weave
Weave is a leading vertical SaaS company delivering an AI-powered patient engagement and payments platform purpose-built for modern healthcare practices. More than software, Weave is an always-on teammate—handling patient interactions across voice and text and operating at the center of the patient journey. Through agentic AI workflows and authorized integrations with practice management systems, Weave ensures critical tasks like scheduling, insurance verification, and payments happen seamlessly, so nothing falls between the cracks. By embedding AI directly into daily operations, Weave reduces administrative workload, frees up staff to focus on human-centered care, and delivers real-time insights that help practices run smarter and grow with confidence. Serving over 40,000 customer locations, Weave was named a 2026 Best Software Awards winner for healthcare software products by G2. To learn more, visit getweave.com/newsroom.
Weave and CareCredit Go Live with Integration That Places Patient Financing Inside the Front-Office Workflow
VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Vatican said Pope Leo XIV will be admitted to the hospital on Tuesday in the late morning, ahead of surgery to remove a lung nodule discovered during recent medical tests.
The Vatican press office didn't say when the operation itself would take place, but it was expected in the first days of the week, with a weeklong recovery.
Leo revealed the discovery of the nodule during his Sunday noon prayer and said he was following doctors’ advice to have it removed. The Vatican press office said Monday that no particular issue precipitated the tests, denying Italian media reports suggesting an inflammation had prompted Leo to undergo the checkup.
On Monday, it was business as usual at the Vatican. The 71-year-old Leo presided over an audience with members of a Rome-based charity, the Circolo San Pietro, and received a donation from them. He spoke in a strong, clear voice, praising their service and sacrifice. The crowd gave him a rousing round of applause afterward.
He had six other private audiences, made three appointments and the Vatican released a letter he had penned to the outgoing dean of the College of Cardinals, thanking him for his service. The letter was signed on Sunday.
In the afternoon, he was expected to continue his audiences and, if time, rejoin a weeklong conference he convened on ministering to families.
Leo's surgery marks the first major health event of his 17-month pontificate. It was significant because the pope himself revealed the news, in perhaps the most public way possible: at the end of his Sunday noon blessing, with thousands of people in St. Peter's Square.
The Vatican has for centuries zealously guarded the pope's health and has often sent out confusing information, or none at all, about papal illnesses. Pope Francis tried to change that by being upfront about his frailties and musing on his eventual death. But even during his pontificate, information was tightly controlled.
Leo's decision and reveal suggested an unusual level of transparency by the American pope.
A lung nodule is a small abnormal area measuring less than 3 centimeters (1 inch) that sometimes appears on a CT scan of the chest or abdomen. Often, the scans are done to investigate trauma or a lung infection, unrelated to a lung cancer screening. A nodule can be benign or malignant, and oftentimes surgical removal is recommended to ascertain whether it is cancerous since performing a lung biopsy by needle can be difficult.
Oncologists say if the nodule turns out to be cancerous, Leo's prognosis is “excellent” since it will have been removed at an early stage.
Unlike his predecessor Pope Francis, whose decade-long respiratory problems made him speak in a whisper, Leo tends to project his voice and frequently sings his prayers.
Barry reported from Milan
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Pope Leo XIV delivers the Angelus prayer in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, Sunday, Oct. 11, 2026. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)
The statue of late Pope John Paul II is pictured at the Agostino Gemelli Polyclinic in Rome, Sunday, Oct. 11, 2026. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)
The statue of late Pope John Paul II, center, is pictured at the Agostino Gemelli Polyclinic in Rome, Sunday, Oct. 11, 2026. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)
People walk past the main entrance of the Agostino Gemelli Polyclinic where Pope Leo XIV is scheduled to be hospitalized in the next days to remove a lung nodule, in Rome, Monday, Oct. 12, 2026. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)
Pope Leo XIV delivers the Angelus prayer in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, Sunday, Oct. 11, 2026. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)
