How alternative are 'alternative' health plans, really?
Owen Tripp
6 min read
Plan designs bolted onto the status quo aren’t enough to drive change
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Making sense of healthcare deals, technology, policy, and the occasional industry curveball.
Assurance labs are back
Christina Farr and Ruth Reader
7 min read
Utah makes an update to its AI sandbox. Plus: Oura shelves its IPO, RFK Jr. wants Americans' health data, and Four Questions with Mary Varghese Presti.
Four Questions with Mary Varghese Presti
Christina Farr
5 min read
On the 30% of a nursing shift that still goes to documentation, what agentic workflows could take off the floor, and why the fix is keeping the nurses already in the profession.
Hospitals found more revenue with AI. Insurers are coming for it.
Christina Farr and Ruth Reader
8 min read
We spoke with payers, providers and employers about the impending ‘botwars’
BCBSA says AI-coding is leading to increased costs
Christina Farr and Ruth Reader
10 min read
A new report says hospitals are using secondary diagnoses to bill higher
Everything you need to know about provider referral strategies that work
Christina Farr
11 min read
A veteran pharma sales rep and digital health marketer with more than a decade of experience weighs in
Four Questions with Munjal Shah
Christina Farr
10 min read
Hippocratic AI's co-founder on scope safety, who carries the liability when a clinical AI gets it wrong, and why he thinks AI grows the healthcare workforce rather than shrinking it.
The big interview with Ro Khanna on how to regulate AI
Ruth Reader
7 min read
Rep. Ro Khanna wants a new agency to vet frontier models. We asked him what that means for healthcare.
The Next Frontier In Preventive Health Care? The Dentist’s Office
Christina Farr and Jennifer Fields
10 min read
What if your next dental visit could catch more than a cavity? As healthcare systems look for new ways to expand preventive care, dental practices are emerging as an unexpected front door for screenings, referrals, and earlier detection.
If RCM is such a killer use case for AI, why aren't there Harvey or Sierra equivalents?
Nick Perry
8 min read
Because the rules for how to submit claims correctly aren’t published, humans will still need to be in the loop.
Trudging towards interoperability
Christina Farr, Ruth Reader and Annalisa Merelli
9 min read
This week a scoop from SO and a conversation with AMA's Jennifer Goldsack
Scoop: interoperability final rule drops info blocking fixes
Ruth Reader
5 min read
HTI-5 rolls back its planned regulatory roll back