January 2026 has slipped away like a Nor'easter through the Northeast—fast, furious, and leaving everyone wondering what just happened. And much like those of you who got snowed in, we've spent the month mostly indoors, heads down, reading everything we could get our hands on about the flurry of health industry and policy developments that have swept through Washington and across the healthcare landscape. Let's go around the horn and touch on just a sliver of what our team h

For so many mission and humanitarian reasons, let's all take it as a given that everyone in healthcare sees value in improving healthcare quality. And that, therefore, tools, services, resources, or process changes that improve quality will also be perceived as valuable and worth investing in. This is true enough; however, in the real world, it often happens that a more detailed quality ROI case has to be made. Both on the buyer (provider, payer) side and on the vendor (tech,

With a new federal measure set to reward hospitals for participating in the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality's (AHRQ) Patient Safety Organization (PSO) program starting next year—and a fresh government evaluation pushing for tweaks to the program to improve its effectiveness—PSOs have quickly moved from a relatively niche quality program to a potential strategy priority. PSOs play a strategic role by offering legal protections for safety event data and positioning o

For the better part of the last decade, rural hospitals have been running on thin ice. In 2025, that ice appears poised to splinter. Core...

Last week, Union Healthcare Insight had the privilege of gathering with an impressive group of hospital revenue cycle executives in...

The push toward healthcare price transparency started in earnest nearly 15 years ago, when the ACA highlighted the need for greater...

A few weeks ago, we published a deep dive on shifts in physician employment models. The link to the full post is below for those who...

CMS and the OIG recently announced intention to audit health plans and providers in a set of initiatives that could recoup several billion dollars

Later this week, we'll be convening live for this month's Board Briefing webinar to talk about the current state of the physician...

If you’ve seen our State of Healthcare presentation, you’ll know that despite provider margins seemingly rebounding at the top line, it’s...

This month's Union Strategy Bootcamp, “How to Speak Ambulatory" is set to cover all the essentials : Key concepts, players,...

In many (most) cases, the health system CFO is the Final Boss Chief financial officers (CFOs) are probably the most sought-after...