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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 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 12AI is a megaphone for bad dataArcadia’s CEO on why 20 years of data plumbing is suddenly the whole ballgame
- 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 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
September 2026
- 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 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 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 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
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 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 6Betting that MedMal is ripe for disruptionPlus big Hospitalogy Membership news
- AUG 4The Becker's Healthcare blueprintFrom surgery center newsletter to healthcare media empire
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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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
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 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 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 7Atrium-WakeMed CommentaryQuick breakdown of the M&A announcement in NC
- MAY 5April RecapNews and Trends that caught my eye from the month
- 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 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.
- APR 16🏥 HPA Spring Forum TakeawaysA reminder: You’re receiving this because you were previously subscribed to HealthExecWire. Hope you enjoy.
- APR 14🏥 Nabla’s New CCPO On the Post-Ambient AI FrontierA reminder: You’re receiving this because you were previously subscribed to HealthExecWire. Hope you enjoy.
- APR 9🏥 The Warner Thomas PlaybookA reminder: You’re receiving this because you were previously subscribed to HealthExecWire. Hope you enjoy.
- APR 7🏥 Medvi and the $1.8B Healthcare NightmareA reminder: You’re receiving this because you were previously subscribed to HealthExecWire. Hope you enjoy.
- APR 2🏥 Dynamite the SkyA reminder: You’re receiving this because you were previously subscribed to HealthExecWire. Hope you enjoy.
March 2026
- MAR 31🏥 The Current State of Healthcare FinanceA reminder: You’re receiving this because you were previously subscribed to HealthExecWire. Hope you enjoy.
- MAR 26🏥 March RecapA reminder: You’re receiving this because you were previously subscribed to HealthExecWire. Hope you enjoy.
- MAR 24🏥 Medicare’s $76B Question (and a Bigger One for Partnerships)A reminder: You’re receiving this because you were previously subscribed to HealthExecWire. Hope you enjoy.
- MAR 19🏥 Return of the Cross-Market Hospital Mega-MergerA reminder: You’re receiving this because you were previously subscribed to HealthExecWire. Hope you enjoy.
- MAR 17🏥 What Healthcare Problems Can’t Be Solved By Technology?A reminder: You’re receiving this because you were previously subscribed to HealthExecWire. Hope you enjoy.
- MAR 12🏥 Iron Sharpens IronA reminder: You’re receiving this because you were previously subscribed to HealthExecWire. Hope you enjoy.
- MAR 10🏥 The 'Bill Parcells' of healthcareA reminder: You’re receiving this because you were previously subscribed to HealthExecWire. Hope you enjoy.
- MAR 6🏥 The Calm before the StormA reminder: You’re receiving this because you were previously subscribed to HealthExecWire. Hope you enjoy.
- MAR 3🏥 The Problem With Rev CycleA reminder: You’re receiving this because you were previously subscribed to HealthExecWire. Hope you enjoy.
February 2026
- FEB 27🏥 ViVE 2026 RecapA reminder: You’re receiving this because you were previously subscribed to HealthExecWire. Hope you enjoy.
- FEB 25Arbital Health Is Building the Actuarial Brain Value-Based Care Never HadBack in August, I wrote about Arbital Health as the infrastructure layer VBC desperately needs.
- FEB 24🏥 How Do We Increase Hospital Competition?A reminder: You’re receiving this because you were previously subscribed to HealthExecWire. Hope you enjoy.
- FEB 20🏥 Mass General's 2025 in 5 ChartsA reminder: You’re receiving this because you were previously subscribed to HealthExecWire. Hope you enjoy.
- FEB 17🏥 AI Readiness and Resource RoundupA reminder: You’re receiving this because you were previously subscribed to HealthExecWire. Hope you enjoy.
- FEB 13🏥 Tenet's Moat just got DeeperA reminder: You’re receiving this because you were previously subscribed to HealthExecWire. Hope you enjoy.
- FEB 10🏥 10 Healthcare Consulting Reports Actually Worth ReadingA reminder: You’re receiving this because you were previously subscribed to HealthExecWire. Hope you enjoy.
- FEB 6🏥 The Healthcare Dance with DragonsA reminder: You’re receiving this because you were previously subscribed to HealthExecWire. Hope you enjoy.
- FEB 4🏥 LLMs are DeadI’m (unfortunately) back in Dallas after a great week discussing the future of healthcare and AI amongst friends and leaders in Santa…
- FEB 2Managed Care in 2026: Change is Here, Like It Or NotExecutive Summary: If 2025 exposed the cracks in managed care, 2026 will test whether the system can still defend them.
January 2026
- JAN 30🏥 Making Vibrant Cities in HealthcareHappy Thursday Hospitalogists! After a bitterly cold start to the week and navigating some black ice on the roads (it hit record lows of ~10…
- JAN 27🏥 Let’s get ready to rumbleBefore we get into it, big news: I launched a podcast.
- JAN 22🏥 Key Themes from JPMHappy Thursday Hospitalogists, As we mourn the loss of college football (congrats to Indiana; we’re coming for you next year), I thought…
- JAN 20🏥 The AI Scribe Productivity MisconceptionHappy Tuesday, Hospitalogists! Today I’ve got a request from a community member for a post-acute EMR solution (see below), an AI scribe hot…
- JAN 15🏥 Emerging Nonprofit Strategies at JPM 2026We’re 15 days into 2026. What have you done so far to get better?
