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Everything published by Hospitalogy.
October 2026
- OCT 22Podcast - Standard as Possible, Different as Necessary: Jefferson HealthInside Jefferson Health's payvider bet and LVHN integration with Dr. Baligh Yehia, President of Jefferson Health
- OCT 22A Kiwi pharmacist walks into US healthcareAnd he told me cost shifting is dead
- OCT 20VBC, AI, and a DreamWhere Lumeris is headed next with Dr. Charles “Chuck” Saunders joining leadership
- OCT 20Inpatient AI, Payor Win-Wins, and Token Costs (with Dr. Shiv Rao, co-founder and CEO of Abridge)Hospitalogy’s Blake Madden sits down with Dr.
- OCT 19The $108B AI opportunity for specialty practices4 ways practices can gain an additional $125K per physician per year
- OCT 15CEOs: AI is YOUR job, not your CIO’s2 CEOs on 4 commitments leadership can’t hand off
- OCT 13The RHTP $4B report cardRural health’s haves and have-nots
- OCT 13Standard as Possible, Different as Necessary: Inside Jefferson Health’s Payvider Bet and LVHN Integration (with Dr. Baligh Yehia, President of Jefferson Health)Which model won after Jefferson Health and Lehigh Valley Health Network merged? Dr.
- OCT 12AI is a megaphone for bad dataArcadia’s CEO on why 20 years of data plumbing is suddenly the whole ballgame
- OCT 9Podcast Recap: Members Leave Carriers, Not BrokersA conversation with Will Johnson, co-founder and CEO of Gyde, about the importance of the broker.
- OCT 8Wash the LaundryLessons on leadership and academic medicine from 82 combined years of tenure
- OCT 6Healthcare needs an SECAli Diab on the tax code, lobbying, and the missing price tag
- OCT 6Members Leave Carriers, Not Brokers (with Will Johnson, Co-founder and CEO of Gyde)Claims Denied is back for a new season, and Blake kicks it off by driving down from Dallas to Austin, and sits in-studio with Will Johnson…
- OCT 1September RecapYou probably missed a lot this month. I’m here to help, don’t worry.
- OCT 1Cigna 2026 Investor Day High Level AnalysisQuick Analysis of Cigna's Investor Day this week
- OCT 1Replay: Building the VBC Playbook for 2027 and BeyondTwo VBC operators on moving coding, quality, and cost management to the point of care, and how to tell whether your AI tools are earning their keep.
September 2026
- SEP 29Podcast Recap: CMS Isn't Asking Anymore: Inside the Mandatory Bundle EraTim Elliott, CEO of Navvis, on CMS ditching its "voluntary" posture on VBC.Members only
- SEP 29Podcast Recap: Mentorship, Physician Entrepreneurship, and a Journey Through Scaling Tele911A conversation with Dr. Ramon Lizardo, former CEO of Tele911.Members only
- SEP 29Podcast replay: The future of AI-enabled primary care is hereFilmed live with Matic and Catalyst Health GroupMembers only
- SEP 29Podcast replay: The future of AI-enabled primary care is hereFilmed live with Matic and Catalyst Health GroupMembers only
- SEP 29The system that could build anything, and didn'tMGB's CFO on when to sprint, Regent's CEO on where AI pays off.
- SEP 28The $320M reason access beats revenue cycleNapkin math on why primary care panels are the next capital fight.
- SEP 24The Epic of OracleTalking shop with Seema Verma on Oracle Health’s agentic AI future, the role of the EHR in healthcare innovation, and killing coding
- SEP 22The $10M bet that Epic doesn't eat everythingTalking shop with AvoMD’s Yair Saperstein and avoiding the 800 pound gorilla
- SEP 22CMS Isn’t Asking Anymore: Inside the Mandatory Bundle Era (with Tim Elliott, CEO of Navvis)Second time’s the charm! Blake welcomes back Navvis CEO, Tim Elliott, for a new conversation that goes deeper than round one.
- SEP 21$600B of Robots ArguingHow R1 is building for chapter 3 of the RCM bot wars
- SEP 21How OhioHealth Turned One AI Win Into an Enterprise-Wide Bet13,000 excess hospital days saved. OhioHealth’s response wasn’t to stop there. They handed Qventus two more care settings.
- SEP 17Sussing out the Scenes at SessionsWhat's top of mind for folks near the end of 2026 as fall conference season kicks off
- SEP 15Is cardiology the cleanest VBC specialty?Inside US Heart and Vascular's playbook for cutting a 9-month wait down to days.
- SEP 15Mentorship, Physician Entrepreneurship, and Owning the Pipes: Dr. Ramon Lizardo’s Journey Through Scaling Tele911Blake sits down with Dr. Ramon Lizardo, ER doc turned three-time operator turned investor, and former CEO of Tele911.
- SEP 14The Gen Z nurse retention cliffNew data and strategies on what it takes to retain Gen Z nurses
- SEP 10Delaware is done with FaxesDiving into Delaware’s fascinating rural health transformation bet
- SEP 8Is your toilet smarter than your smartwatch?Your toilet is now a health sensor
- SEP 8Primary Care’s Choke Point Was Never Knowledge (with Matic and Catalyst Health Group)We’re doing something special with this latest episode of Claims Denied.
- SEP 3Advocate Health's 1H 2026 VisualizedBy the Numbers
- SEP 1The M&A lawyer who quit asking, “What about the risk?”Navvis' Tim Elliott on ditching VBC-speak, and where the capital goes next
- SEP 1Handl Health and the Death of Cost Shifting (with Ahmed Marmoush, Co-founder and CEO of Handl Health)Blake sits down with Ahmed Marmoush, CEO and co-founder of Handl Health, fresh off their Series A funding, and this one covers the full arc…
August 2026
- AUG 27August RecapHospital margins, prior auth denial data, and other news and trends that caught my eye
- AUG 25From MultiPlan insider to MultiPlan disruptorIf you're a middleman, earn your keep
- AUG 21Healthcare's Oppenheimer Moment: The AI Inflection Point Healthcare Can't Afford to Sleep OnIn this virtual session, Blake sat down with Eric Larsen, President of TowerBrook Advisors and R1 board member, to pressure-test the thesis behind his 369-page essay: that AI is the industrialization of intelligence, and healthcare is ground zero for what happens next.
- AUG 20Rural Transformation’s moment is here. The Spice Trade has taken notice.He who controls the spice controls the universe.
- AUG 19Everyone’s building “agents.” Almost nobody’s doing this.“Multi-agent systems” has officially entered the healthcare buzzword hall of fame, right up there with “value-based care” and…
- AUG 18Privia’s case for boring in value-based careWhy aggressive prudence is beating aggressive growth
- AUG 18The End of Managed Care? How Northwell Built a $2.5B Direct Contracting Machine (with Nick Stefanizzi, CEO Northwell Direct)Blake sits down with Nick Stefanizzi, CEO of Northwell Direct ( https://northwelldirect.northwell.edu/ ) — the man running the most…
- AUG 13Should HIPAA cover health apps?Two privacy heavyweights say no - here's why
- AUG 11Addiction CapitalismWhy do we have to bet on everything? and implications for healthcare and society at large
- AUG 11Insurance Is the Inflation: Your Health Plan Costs the Same as a Tesla Model Y, and What Collective Health is Doing to Fix itThis episode hits the affordability crisis head-on, as Blake sits down with Ali Diab, CEO and co-founder of Collective Health (…
- AUG 6Betting that MedMal is ripe for disruptionPlus big Hospitalogy Membership news
- AUG 4The Becker's Healthcare blueprintFrom surgery center newsletter to healthcare media empire
- AUG 425K Patients Deep and Zero Physician Equity: Inside MGB and Regent’s Site-of-Service Bet, and their New ASC Ownership PlaybookFor this week’s episode, Hospitalogy’s Blake Madden puts two people on opposite ends of the same handshake into one virtual room: Travis…
July 2026
- JUL 30July News RecapOverview of major themes and events from the month of July
- JUL 28Q2 Public Hospital Operator Deep DiveAnalysis, visuals, & macro themes you need to know from HCA, Tenet, CHS, and UHS
- JUL 28Addiction Treatment and Why Your Claims Data Is Lying About Gambling DisorderFeaturing: Elliott Rapaport (Founder of Birches Health) and Dr.
- JUL 27The $48B payor nobody contracts withThe worst-performing payor in your mix isn't who you think.
- JUL 23The CHS Bear MarketAn Interlude into CHS’s Q2 earnings and how their economics are deteriorating
- JUL 21Oppenheimer, Meet the OdysseyAssessing the looming hospital bear market
- JUL 21AvoMD’s Series A and the Bet That Epic Doesn’t Eat Everything (with Yair Saperstein, MD MPH)Hospitalogy’s Blake Madden sits down with Yair Saperstein, MD MPH — co-founder and CEO of AvoMD — fresh off the company’s Series A close in…
- JUL 16The Hospital Bear Market?Assessing HCA's Q2 preview and a warning sign for the hospital industry
- JUL 14Who’s absorbing the liability for AI?EMR walled gardens and why Sally always kills your ICHRA math.
- JUL 14Inside US Heart and Vascular: Cardiology’s Independent Integration Play and When Private Equity WorksFeaturing: Emily Rash (COO) and Dr. Neil Gheewala (CMO of Value-Based Care), US Heart and Vascular
- JUL 13The Revenue Cycle Has an Infrastructure Problem. R1 Built the OS to Solve It.TL;DR Get in touch with the R1 team today to learn more about the new OS for RCM.
- JUL 9A State of the Union on the $37,824 ProblemUnbundling employer health insurance, direct contracting & affordability crisis.
- JUL 7Mercy Health: the playbook others will copySteve Mackin on scarcity, CHF outcomes, and why there will be winners and losers
- JUL 7Whoop for Your Poop: Inside Throne Science’s Bet on the Smart Toilet (with Scott Hickle, Co-Founder, Throne Science)This episode covers something Claims Denied hasn’t touched before: the world’s first passive gut health monitoring device.
- JUL 2June RecapTop healthcare news from June 2026
June 2026
- JUN 30When Chick Fil A Enters HealthcareInside Matic: How the newest agentic AI founding team is surprising physicians
- JUN 291 patient, 100 front doorsFragmented care. Virtual-first entry points. One ambient layer to document it.
- JUN 25ACA exits and ambulatory utilization trends ACA Marketplace insurer participation, S&P research on MA utilization patterns
- JUN 25The Missing Infrastructure for Value-Based CareWhy fragmented patient data became a financial and regulatory liability, and how clinical AI closes the gap at the point of care TL;DR…
- JUN 23Healthcare mid-year public market updatePlus…introducing the new and improved Hospitalogy Index
- JUN 23VBC’s shift to performance, AI agents on the org chart, LEAD is a no-go, and why health systems should prep for mandatory risk models (with Tim Elliott, CEO of Navvis)In this latest episode of Claims Denied, Blake sits down with Tim Elliott, CEO of Navvis, for one of the most clear-eyed conversations he’s…
- JUN 18There is no labor shortagePuts and takes on workforce transformation after my trip to Tampa
- JUN 16Weighing in on VBC and the impact of truly site-neutral careThe gap between believing in VBC and being built for it is enormous
- JUN 16How Lantern and Morgan Health Are Re-Wiring Employer Healthcare, And Why Narrow Networks Are Suddenly Worth a Second Look (with Dan Mendelson, CEO Morgan Health and John Zutter, CEO Lantern)Blake Madden sits down with two of the people most responsible for re-wiring the employer side of healthcare right now: Dan Mendelson, CEO…
- JUN 11 The year of the clinical intelligence layer Plus some healthcare reports worth the read
- JUN 9Regulations with unintended consequences for care deliveryPassionate answers, including blasts from the pasts & some of the usual suspects
- JUN 9From Multiplan Insider to Multiplan Disruptor: The Daffodil Health Story (with Navin Nagiah, CEO of Daffodil Health)In this latest episode of Claims Denied, Blake Madden sits down with Navin Nagiah, co-founder and CEO of Daffodil Health.
- JUN 4The Top 37 Health Systems by RevenueTotal revenue, patient revenue, revenue growth, and more
- JUN 2May RecapMega IPOs and other news and trends that caught my eye from the month
- JUN 2MA is a Flat Circle, the Physician Subsidy Bear Case, and Why Density Beats Scale (with Jason Ross, EVP at Privia Health)Hospitalogy’s Blake Madden sits down with Jason Ross, EVP of Medical Groups at Privia Health, a guy who has worked basically every seat at…
May 2026
- MAY 28How Aetna is Redefining ItselfThe VBC reckoning is here and how an analog bet on making MA less miserable
- MAY 27An infinite workforce for primary care?My convo with JC Saghbini on developing the technology for primary care's OS
- MAY 27The Credentialing and Enrollment Bottleneck: Nothing Moves Until the Provider Is ReadyHere’s a scenario that plays out inside health systems every single day: a new provider is hired, paperwork is signed, start dates are set…
- MAY 26The Gen AI Juggernaut, Year 2Macro themes for Q1 hospital operators across HCA, Tenet, UHS, CHS, and Ardent
- MAY 26Insuring Against the Incumbents: Why Indigo Technologies’ Jared Kaplan Is Betting MedMal Is Ripe for DisruptionYou may think the insurance industry is dull, but not this conversation!
- MAY 21My 6 Big Bets on the Future of HealthcareDiving into the macro forces shaping healthcare and what’s going to happen
- MAY 19Oura’s Healthcare PivotHow a smart ring is outperforming every engagement play in digital health by 6x
- MAY 19From Surgery Center Newsletter to Healthcare Media Empire (with Scott Becker)In this episode, Blake Madden sits down with Scott Becker, founder of Becker’s Healthcare, practicing healthcare lawyer at McGuireWoods, and…
- MAY 14The Treatment We're Refusing To PrescribeA treatment with the power to save 40,000 lives annually
- MAY 12WakeMed-Atrium responses and all things Karoo Health Responses from Hospitalogists on the impending merger
- MAY 12Debating AI, ICHRA, and the Employer Exit (with Teira Gunlock & Dr. Eric Bricker)In this latest episode of Claims Denied, Hospitalogy’s Blake Madden pulls in two co-hosts — Teira Gunlock, CEO of First Stop Health, and Dr.
- MAY 7Atrium-WakeMed CommentaryQuick breakdown of the M&A announcement in NC
- MAY 5April RecapNews and Trends that caught my eye from the month
- MAY 51,300 Point Solutions Killed, CHF Admissions Halved, and the Mercy Playbook | Steve Mackin, Mercy CEOBlake sits down with Steve Mackin, CEO of Mercy — one of the top 15 health systems in the country with 55+ hospitals across Missouri…
- MAY 1Photon Just Killed the “E” in E-PrescribingHealth Systems Are Sleeping on Their Most Valuable Asset Photon Health just raised $16M to build the consumer interface e-prescribing…
April 2026
- APR 29Pearl Health: The VBC Math That Should Change Your MindThis past week, I had a chance to sit down with Pearl Health leadership and hear their hard-fought lessons learned over the years of working…
- APR 28🏥 Reimagine Care and the Future of OncologyA reminder: You’re receiving this because you were previously subscribed to HealthExecWire. Hope you enjoy.
- APR 28Cancer’s $220B Tab Isn’t Going Anywhere: Reimagine Care, Oncology Ventures, and the Evolving State of the Cancer Care Space | Dan Nardi, Reimagine Care and Ben Freeberg, Oncology VenturesIn this episode, Hospitalogy’s Blake Madden talks with two operators who actually walk the walk in oncology: Ben Freeberg, founder of…
- APR 23🏥 Job Displacement and Economic Realities of AI in HealthcareA reminder: You’re receiving this because you were previously subscribed to HealthExecWire. Hope you enjoy.
- APR 21🏥 The Primary Care ManifestoA reminder: You’re receiving this because you were previously subscribed to HealthExecWire. Hope you enjoy.
