Analysis of the week's biggest healthcare stories, including ACA affordability, declining mortality, AI adoption and rural healthcare transformation.

Learn why static primary care panel size benchmarks miss patient complexity and how risk-adjusted models improve access, workload and value-based care.

Explore the 2025 Vizient Connections Summit report for healthcare strategies on quality, AI, workforce, financial sustainability and care delivery.

Rural providers must make bold investments to redesign care, improve access and achieve lasting transformation under the Rural Health Transformation Program.

The future will belong to payers that can orchestrate effectively across partnerships, products, populations, and platforms.

Explore how mixed hospital volume trends, staffing challenges, and rising expenses are keeping operational and financial performance under pressure in 2026.

Major healthcare fraud enforcement announced, infant mortality fell to all-time low, sugary drink, candy ban blocked

Health systems need service line dashboards that support faster decisions, align strategy and connect performance metrics to action.

Explore April 2026 hospital performance data, including margin pressure, expense growth, labor and drug costs, payer mix erosion, bad debt and charity care trends.

In Good to Great, author Jim Collins explored what the fox-hedgehog concept means for company performance. His new book explores its personal implications.

Academic medical centers should rethink residency slot allocation, GME spending and workforce alignment to support long-term financial and clinical strategy.

Explore how patient age influences care site preferences, with CDC data showing urgent care and retail clinic use varies across pediatric, adult and senior populations.