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Brushing up on the state of healthcare price transparency in 2025
The push toward healthcare price transparency started in earnest nearly 15 years ago, when the ACA highlighted the need for greater...

Marina Renton
Aug 48 min read


AI scribes: The promise, the uptake pattern–and some pitfalls in the mix
AI scribes for clinicians are clearly a compelling idea—but to what extent are adoption and results matching up? It can be hard to tell,...

Chris Loumeau
Jul 318 min read


What's going on with Payer A.I., denials and audits?
In the last couple of months, we’ve been pulling up chairs with dozens of revenue cycle leaders to understand what’s keeping them awake...

Eric Fontana
Jul 2311 min read


OBBBA's impact on the healthcare industry: Sweeping changes on the horizon
The One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) was signed into law by President Trump on July 4 after a narrow 218-214 vote in the House and...

Yulan Egan & Jordan Peterson
Jul 1620 min read


What’s on Union's research and education agendas for H2 2025
Welcome to our sneak peek into some of the major things we’re studying across the remainder of this year. Here, we’re about to break down...

Amanda Berra & Yulan Egan
Jul 1610 min read


Synthetic clinical data reality check - not so fast, data replacers
Quick rewind: our tour of the clinical data market that ended in a cliffhanger In Part 1 of this blog post (linked below if you missed...

Amanda Berra
Jun 279 min read


The state of the physician workforce in 2025: 4 trends to know
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...

Jordan Peterson
Jun 208 min read


F.W.A: Straight Outta’ D.C. Is CMS about to get even tougher on Fraud, Waste and Abuse?
CMS and the OIG recently announced intention to audit health plans and providers in a set of initiatives that could recoup several billion dollars

Eric Fontana
Jun 1110 min read


The national insurers' financial performance in Q1 2025: Temporary reprieve or signs of stability?
Over the course of the past few weeks, all of the large, publicly-traded health plans have hosted their first set of earnings calls for...

Jordan Peterson
Jun 414 min read


The state of government-sponsored insurance in 2025: How Trump and a GOP-led Congress are approaching Medicare, MA, and Medicaid
Roughly half of the U.S. population gets health coverage through some form of government-sponsored insurance. And with control of both...

Yulan Egan
May 289 min read


Welcome to the clinical data market
Health system leaders have long been interested in figuring out ways to monetize clinical data. It makes sense: if they could sell or license de-identified data in their EHRs to life science or tech companies, that would be very helpful from a revenue diversification perspective. Especially whenever core inpatient economics are under siege. But, it’s always been an easier-said-than-done proposition. And now, maybe there's also a new spoiler in the mix, in the form of 'synthe

Amanda Berra
May 2210 min read


Physician practice structure in 2025: What’s changed (and what hasn't)—and what we’re watching moving forward
Later this week, we'll be convening live for this month's Board Briefing webinar to talk about the current state of the physician...

Jordan Peterson
May 197 min read
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