Coding scrutiny, payment gaps and a push for price caps show up across Trilliant Health's annual look at where U.S. health care is headed.

Urban Institute analysis finds 26% of insured adults owe medical debt, with hospitals the largest source

Recent CMS rule changes reinforce that operational discipline is increasingly shaping reimbursement

Medical Economics spoke with Monique Delgado, former CEO of Integrated Medical Services, about where salary-only pay falls short, which metrics to tie incentives to and how to change physician pay without eroding trust.

From AI scribes and coding habits to the claims payers quietly cut, these are the lessons physicians can take from four days of sessions and interviews at the Medical Group Management Association's centennial meeting.

Trilliant Health's annual trends report traces primary care shortages, payment gaps and looming price caps to incentives no single stakeholder has reason to fix.

It's not a patient problem, it's an operations problem, and large practices and health systems need to treat it that way.

A new Kodiak report shows prior authorization and medical necessity denials accounted for nearly all of the 25% jump in revenue leakage. Here are four steps practices can take now to fix that.