The Business Side of Healthcare Blog

December 11, 2026. That is when federal government funding runs out. 🗓️ Then, 20 days later on December 31, the Community Health Center Fund expires. Two deadlines. One lame-duck Congress. And community health centers stuck ...

A state capitol hearing room, sometime this spring. Tennessee lawmakers vote, in a bipartisan majority, to unravel most of their certificate of need rules. They had a funding incentive to do it. They did it ...

Everyone said AI would replace care coordinators. Baba raised $40M to hire more of them. 🏥 That contrast is exactly what makes this round worth paying attention to. Baba, the New York-based applied AI company, ...

92% 10-year lung cancer-specific survival when stage I disease got prompt surgical resection. 🎯 That number, from I-ELCAP's 2006 New England Journal of Medicine report, is the entire argument for low-dose CT screening in one ...

$100.3 million. That's what H.R. 1 costs Minnesota's FQHCs by 2030. 🧮 I read that number in a new report from Facktor and Capital Link, commissioned by the Minnesota Association of Community Health Centers. And ...

Everyone's calling this a cardiology story. I think it's a radiology story. The FDA just cleared Elucid's FFR-IQ software, an AI-powered tool that estimates fractional flow reserve directly from coronary CT angiography scans. No catheterization ...

What does your doctor do while waiting on a prior auth fax? They wait. Your patient waits. And care gets delayed for no clinical reason. This week, CMS and the Department of Labor announced that ...

The lung cancer screening rulebook was built for white patients. 🔬 That is not an accusation. It is what the data in Annals of Internal Medicine now confirm. A study using Multiethnic Cohort data, published ...

Bigger hospitals are not automatically better hospitals. 🏥 But the industry keeps acting like they are. This week, Rush University System for Health and Endeavor Health announced plans to merge into what would be one ...