The Business Side of Healthcare Blog

CMS just cut radiology pay again. Nobody is surprised. That is the problem. 📉 When a payment cut lands and the collective response is a shrug, it means the erosion has become the baseline. On ...

$867,465,287. That is the size of the federal Medicaid deferral CMS just dropped on California. 🚨 Not a rumor. Not a threat. A signed letter to California State Medicaid Director Tyler Sadwith dated July 21, ...

Congress just wrote a $25M check for lung imaging AI. Read that again. 🫁 I sat with that number for a while. Not a research grant. Not a pilot buried in an omnibus. A direct, ...

CMO, can you defend a guideline that would have missed 65% of lung cancer patients? 🔬 Because that is exactly what a new study in JAMA Network Open just showed. Researchers looked at 89,900 patients ...

The AI doctor debate is asking the wrong question entirely. July 12, 2026. Marc Andreessen posts on X that AI is already a better doctor than 99.99% of human doctors. A Silicon Valley benchmark goes ...

The US healthcare system profits from sickness. Someone just raised $700M to bet against it. 🏥 Everyone assumes the incumbents will lead the prevention revolution. They won't. They can't. The incentive structure won't let them. ...

78% of Nurse Practitioners want to start their own businesses. 🔥 Almost none of them ever did, because the system made it nearly impossible. That is the problem Corner Health was built to solve. Co-founders ...

61 percent of America's most financially vulnerable hospitals are in cities. 🏙️ That number stopped me cold when I read it. Everyone in this space has been told the same story for the past year. ...