Prestige Is a Business Model
An employer that treats board disclosure, community benefit reporting, and contracting terms as three separate conversations is missing that they are the same conversation.
What Happens to Independent Medicine When Private Equity Shows Up With a Checkbook
This is not an argument against capital in independent medicine. Practices need infrastructure, and physicians have legitimate reasons to seek liquidity. It is an argument that the exit stage carries a risk this market has not yet priced.
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The AI-Native Clinician Is Already Here. Medical Education and Health Systems Need to Catch Up.
Medical students, residents, and fellows are not waiting for formal guidance on artificial intelligence before putting it to use.
AI Is Scaling Healthcare Costs Because the System Was Built That Way
AI is not driving healthcare cost inflation. It is exposing a system that has always been designed to reward it, and making that system more efficient. As long as reimbursement is tied to intensity, every technological advancement will move in the same direction: toward maximizing it.
The Most Consequential Healthcare Market Structure Question of the Next Decade Is Sitting in a Comment Docket — It Closes June 9
A comment docket dominated by hospital lobby framing produces a rule that reflects that framing. A comment docket that includes documented employer cost analysis, physician ownership experience, and market structure argument produces a different rule.
The Quiet Battle for the Front Door of Healthcare
This is not a debate about care models or physician preferences. It is a contest over who will control the referral pathways and the revenue streams that originate at the front door of healthcare.
DPC Is Scaling — The Financing Architecture Isn’t Ready
Growth without structural discipline creates risk. And the risk that has gone largely unexamined in the DPC advocacy space is the one that matters most to the broader healthcare system: what happens to insurance risk pools when healthy lives migrate out of them?
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The Power of Real World Data to Study Women’s Health at Scale
Veradigm examines key clinical trends, comorbidity profiles, and treatment trends across adolescence, reproductive years, and peri-/post-menopause. Download it today!
When Health Dollars Move to Individuals, Infrastructure Will Decide Who Wins
Shifting healthcare dollars into individual-controlled accounts would mark an inflection point. But even without full policy execution, consumer wallet economics are expanding. The race is now on to build the infrastructure layer between individual spending authority and care delivery.
When HSA Dollars Enter Direct Primary Care, Control Follows
When tax-advantaged dollars enter a care model, they do more than expand purchasing power. They reorganize incentives, accelerate intermediary involvement, and clarify who holds leverage.
From Perk to Infrastructure: How Employers Are Measuring the ROI of Concierge and Direct Primary Care
Concierge and direct primary care models have proven their value as retention tools. Those who view these programs as measurable business assets, not ancillary benefits, will lead the next wave of workforce health innovation.
From Executive Perk to Employee Retention Strategy: Why Concierge Medicine and/or Direct Primary Care Is Now a Business Essential
With staffing shortages, historic burnout, and rising costs, concierge medicine — and direct primary care (DPC) — have moved from the margins into the middle of the retention conversation.
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The Healthcare Payments Industry Faces a Perception Challenge
Healthcare payments are no longer about transactions. It’s about controlling the revenue cycle. And increasingly, that control is not sitting with ISOs.