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Healthcare Revenue Cycle and Finance July 29, 2026
What Health System Executives Can Borrow From the Hotel Industry’s Pricing Playbook
By Rafiq Ahmed – For decades, one of the most consequential numbers in healthcare was effectively invisible to the providers delivering care: what a payer actually reimburses a hospital for a given service. Health systems negotiated contracts based on internal assumptions, historical precedent, and incomplete intelligence about what the market was actually paying.
Industry Events July 29, 2026
Friday Five – 5 Fall Conferences to Consider
Looking for a conference to attend this Fall? Check out these five events to consider: Civitas Annual Conference, 2026 Health Policy Conference, AMCP Nexus, CHIME26 Fall Forum, and HLTH 2026.
Insurance Payers July 29, 2026
What Health Systems Learn Too Late About Vendor Insurance
By Tyler Cobb – A certificate of insurance is a one-page summary issued as a convenience. It is not a policy, it confers no rights, and it says almost nothing about whether the endorsements behind it actually match what the contract requires. Third-party risk has become a primary exposure pathway for provider organizations.
Regulatory Issues July 28, 2026
Facing Funding Losses, States Call Out Big Businesses With Employees on Medicaid
By Jazmin Orozco Rodriguez – As the Trump administration’s January deadline looms for states to enforce new Medicaid work requirements, some state lawmakers are turning the tables by pushing to publicly name the largest companies that have employees enrolled in the government program covering low-income and disabled people.
Our Reports
- Studies, Surveys and Reports: What Can We Learn? - July 25, 2026
- Upcoming Virtual Events Roundup - July 24, 2026
- Health IT Business News, Financial Edition – July 23, 2026 - July 23, 2026
- NOW in Life Sciences – Month of July 2026 - July 22, 2026
- Revenue Cycle and Payer News – July 22, 2026 - July 22, 2026
- Health IT Hires, Appointments, and Who’s Hiring - July 21, 2026
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- What Health System Executives Can Borrow From the Hotel Industry’s Pricing Playbook
- Friday Five – 5 Fall Conferences to Consider
- What Health Systems Learn Too Late About Vendor Insurance
- Facing Funding Losses, States Call Out Big Businesses With Employees on Medicaid
- Nursing Workforce Challenges: Why Nurses Should Be Treated as Critical Infrastructure
- The New Fulfillment Strategies Redefining Drug Access and Economics
- Attend the AvaSure Symposium in Atlanta
- Nine Teams, One Mission: Meet the EHIgnite Phase 1 Winners
- Why Healthcare AI Still Depends on Interoperability
- Unlocking Perioperative Performance Through Anesthesia Leadership
- Why Provider Data Accuracy Is the $17 Billion Opportunity Healthcare Leaders Are Missing
- Studies, Surveys and Reports: What Can We Learn?
- Seeing More, Closing Less: The Healthcare Remediation Gap
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Health IT Innovation
July 20, 2026
Patient Access AI Has Three Jobs, But Most AI Tools Only Do One.
By Sanjeev Menon – Automation was always the floor, not the ceiling. The next phase of patient access depends on two capabilities the first generation was never built to deliver.
Read MoreInteroperability
July 17, 2026
Beyond the Badge: Data Quality in the Age of Continuous Validation
By Nathan Elliott – When NCQA validated its first ten clinical data streams in late 2021, Data Aggregator Validation looked like an experiment. Four years on, it looks like infrastructure.
Read MoreRegulatory
July 28, 2026
Facing Funding Losses, States Call Out Big Businesses With Employees on Medicaid
By Jazmin Orozco Rodriguez – As the Trump administration’s January deadline looms for states to enforce new Medicaid work requirements, some state lawmakers are turning the tables by pushing to publicly name the largest companies that have employees enrolled in the government program covering low-income and disabled people.
Read MoreHealthcare NOW Radio
July 26, 2026
Unlocking Perioperative Performance Through Anesthesia Leadership
NOW on-demand, Value-Based Care Insights host Daniel J. Marino speaks with Dr. Angel Martino-Horrall, anesthesiologist, consultant, and perioperative operations expert, to discuss the evolving role of anesthesia leadership in surgical services governance.
Read MoreHealthcare Revenue Cycle and Finance
July 29, 2026
What Health System Executives Can Borrow From the Hotel Industry’s Pricing Playbook
By Rafiq Ahmed – For decades, one of the most consequential numbers in healthcare was effectively invisible to the providers delivering care: what a payer actually reimburses a hospital for a given service. Health systems negotiated contracts based on internal assumptions, historical precedent, and incomplete intelligence about what the market was actually paying.
Read MoreDigital Health & Telemedicine
July 12, 2026
The Missing System Behind Mobile Healthcare
By Amit Bhatnagar – A 53-year-old woman moved through the ordinary processes of modern medicine in precisely the way the system demands. She had imaging done after suspicious findings appeared on a mammogram, then a biopsy, followed by a pathology report confirming malignancy. The result existed and had not been…
Read MoreAnalytics & Population Health
July 27, 2026
Why Healthcare AI Still Depends on Interoperability
By Anita Nayak – Across hospitals, health systems, and provider organizations, leaders are exploring how AI can support documentation, predictive analytics, patient engagement, revenue cycle management, administrative workflows, and clinical decision making.
Read MoreHealth IT Security Privacy and Compliance
July 24, 2026
Seeing More, Closing Less: The Healthcare Remediation Gap
By Russell Teague – Healthcare is getting better at seeing its risk. The hard part is now what we do after the finding. During the first half of 2026, organizations have been identifying more risk than ever, but they are remediating less of it according to Fortified Health Security’s rolling risk assessment data.
Read More#ICYMI
- The New Fulfillment Strategies Redefining Drug Access and Economics Posted on: July 28, 2026
- Why Healthcare AI Still Depends on Interoperability Posted on: July 27, 2026
- Why Provider Data Accuracy Is the $17 Billion Opportunity Healthcare Leaders Are Missing Posted on: July 26, 2026
- Seeing More, Closing Less: The Healthcare Remediation Gap Posted on: July 24, 2026
- Upcoming Virtual Events Roundup Posted on: July 24, 2026
- Building Production Ready Healthcare AI Systems: What Actually Works Posted on: July 23, 2026
- The Claims That Never Get Denied, And Never Get Paid Posted on: July 22, 2026














