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Inovalon surveyed more than 370 revenue cycle leaders in February 2026 about how prior authorization actually runs inside their organizations. The numbers say the process has barely modernized.

A physician recruitment leader discusses what keeps doctors working happily in practices and health care organizations.

Is the U.S. still on top?

A JAMA Network Open study of nearly 175 million U.S. adults found 68.6% view immediately released results first — many don't understand what they read.

When ChatGPT names an independent practice, the words describing it usually come from sources the practice doesn’t control.

The BP Go device measures blood pressure through the finger instead of a traditional arm cuff, and Wellvii says the clearance supports its push into remote patient monitoring.

Is your recruiting working? Trent Cotton explains the 3 data points that will tell you whether you are winning or losing the recruiting game.

Jay Anders, M.D., chief medical officer of Medicomp Systems, says ambient AI tools reverse-engineer ICD-10 codes from billing needs instead of building them from a complete clinical picture — a gap that may create a patient safety issue.

The extravascular eVAD System avoided vascular access in a SCAI Stage D patient in São Paulo, Brazil, ahead of a planned U.S. IDE study.

Seventy-nine percent of independent practice leaders say technology is what keeps them independent. Only 64% trust the tools they already have. Veradigm's Aaron Ledbetter explains what sits inside that gap, and why a denied claim still takes one to two weeks to reach the physician it belongs to.

The top news stories in medicine this week.

Sage Growth Partners CEO Dan D'Orazio explains why fee-for-service incentives, disparate data and misaligned financial models — not a lack of technology — are keeping value-based care from taking hold.

Supporters hope a model in northeastern Pennsylvania could be replicated in other communities.

A third straight year of survey data shows patient standards transforming into hard filters — and increasingly, it's AI doing the filtering.

The clinical data to identify mismatched coverage — and fix it before it becomes bad debt — is already sitting in your EHR.

A physician forecasts the effects of artificial intelligence as Medicare sets new rules starting next year.

The clinician shortage is real, but there are other reasons why mental health referrals often go nowhere.

Jay Bregman of Andel says direct-to-employer purchasing takes prior authorization out of the prescription entirely, but the price a patient gets is tied to an employer's willingness to keep paying.

The top news stories in medicine today.

Burnout is rampant in medicine. The good news is the best cure is completely within your control.

Medicare's proposed 2027 reimbursement rates would fall below the cost of RPM devices, risking declines in physician pay and patient health

A JAMA analysis of nearly 250,000 board-certified internists puts hard numbers on how much underserved patient care rests on physicians born outside the U.S., just as visa policy tightens around them.

Supporters of osteopathic medical education hope Pennsylvania collaboration will be a model for the nation.

Crytica Security's RDAi system installs a sub-100 KB software "Probe" inside each device to monitor for unauthorized changes, aiming to catch tampering that network-based tools alone can miss.

A new model of 5,778 physicians sorts every combination of hometown, medical school and residency into four tiers of rural practice.

The top news stories in medicine today.

Three in four patients now refuse to book with a provider rated below 4 stars