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CMS 2027 Physician Pay Overhaul
Are you still billing fee-for-service in 2026? 🏥 If you are, CMS just told you exactly what they think of that. On July 14, CMS dropped the proposed Physician Fee Schedule for Calendar Year 2027. ...
Ebola DRC: Third-Largest Outbreak Ever
The world has a third-largest Ebola outbreak. Right now. And most people in healthcare have barely looked up from their inboxes. According to The Analyst Desk, the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo, ...
FDA AI Clearance: Speed Without Safety
More FDA clearances in radiology AI should mean safer imaging. It does not. The number on the scoreboard looks impressive. According to AI Certs, academic analysts verified 950 cleared AI tools as of August 2024, ...
Pearl Health $50M Series C
$110 million just went into fixing Medicare. Here is why that matters. Pearl Health raised $50 million in Series C equity and locked in a $60 million credit facility, according to Startup Geek citing Axios ...
Q2 2026 FDA Radiology AI Clearances
86 FDA AI clearances in one quarter. Most people read this wrong. I read the Innolitics Q2 2026 AI/ML FDA clearance breakdown and stopped at one line: 84 of those came through 510(k), but only ...
One Big Beautiful Bill: The FQHC Reckoning
Everyone says this is a budget bill. It is not. For every FQHC director, community health worker, and safety-net provider reading this, H.R.1 is a patient volume crisis arriving in slow motion. A pregnant woman ...
Radiology AI: Prove It or Move Aside
Radiologists, why does 95% of the AI you piloted never reach a patient? That number should stop you cold. According to Rad AI, citing the MIT Nanda report, the AI pilot failure rate across healthcare ...
Medicaid Work Requirements Miss the Mark
Medicaid just drew a line that science says is wrong. And millions of people in long-term recovery are standing on the wrong side of it. The One Big Beautiful Bill passed about a year ago. ...







