Austin Littrell

The top news stories in medicine this week.

Insurers are seeking a median 14% increase for 2027, a jump that would leave typical marketplace premiums more than one-third higher in two years.

New YouGov data rank what patients consider before agreeing to a treatment.

The top news stories in medicine this week.

The direct-to-employer model gets GLP-1s to patients without a pharmacy benefit manager or prior authorization, but the discounted price can disappear when a patient leaves the job.

The top news stories in medicine this week.

PYA's Tynan Kugler breaks down the four forces pulling physician pay in competing directions, and why getting the underlying compensation model wrong can be expensive and legally complicated to undo.

The top news stories in medicine this week.

For the first time in years, physician pay and productivity have split, and a new Medicare efficiency adjustment is about to make 2026 a hard year to benchmark, schedule and recruit.

The top news stories in medicine today.

Where you set up shop can quietly cost you thousands. These are the states that take the biggest share of residents' income in state and local taxes.

The top news stories in medicine today.

Practices say technology is essential to staying independent but don't fully trust their current tools, and a Veradigm strategist explains the gap.

A new national survey finds just 71% of adults under 30 have a primary care physician, and fewer than half of those saw one in the past year.

The top news stories in medicine today.

Andel is one of a growing number of companies selling brand-name drugs straight to employers, bypassing pharmacy benefit managers and insurers. Medical Economics sat down with founder and CEO Jay Bregman to understand the model and what physicians should keep in mind.

Two new federal programs are opening Medicare and Medicaid coverage for GLP-1 obesity drugs, and Tracy Zvenyach, Ph.D., M.S., RN, of the Obesity Action Coalition explains what it means for primary care physicians and their patients.

The top news stories in medicine this week.

Clinical applications are climbing while hires lag behind, and Trent Cotton of iCIMS says the practices that win top talent are the ones that make hiring fast, personal and transparent.

The top news stories in medicine today.

The top news stories in medicine today.

Federal prosecutors charged, settled and sentenced health care fraud at a record pace in the first half of 2026. These are the 10 most consequential cases, counted down to a record-setting finish.

Ninety physicians and other licensed medical professionals were among those charged.

The phased changes end value-based pay on incident-to claims and require many clinicians to bill under their own NPI.

The top news stories in medicine today.

AtlasMD’s Josh Umbehr, M.D., has run a direct primary care practice since 2010. He makes the case that the economics are simpler, and the medicine is better, than most physicians realize.

A new federal rule makes it far less expensive for practices to challenge denied and reduced payments, but Anders Gilberg of MGMA says the more difficult problem is getting insurers to pay up after physicians win.

A new survey of physicians, nurses and health care leaders points to burnout, reimbursement uncertainty and the pace of AI adoption as the top threats to the system, even as national data show physician burnout easing.

The top news stories in medicine this week.

A new JAMA analysis of 1,000 federally funded training positions found psychiatry capturing the largest share of gains, while the proportion reaching primary care and rural communities fell with each round.