Jan 29, 2026

Revenue cycle management is a $140 billion industry — already larger than the US auto industry and growing five times faster. RCM vendors use programmatic clearinghouses and increasingly sophisticated tools to maximize every cent of revenue from a claim. That is their job. On the other side sits the...

Jan 22, 2026

What FQHCs Can Teach Every Healthcare Leader About True Fiscal Discipline. There are two very different ways to end up with no profit. One is genuine struggle. The other is simply being very good at spending every dollar you are given. In healthcare, we have no functioning market to tell the difference — and...

Jan 15, 2026

Healthcare Transactions Cost 1,000 Times More Than They Should — Here's Why Clearinghouses Are Part of the Problem

Sending a claim through a healthcare clearinghouse costs 10 to 15 cents per transaction. Sending a thousand business emails at scale costs about 15 cents total. That is a thousand-to-one cost differential...

Jan 8, 2026

Plan Sponsors Pay $1.20 to Buy $1 of Healthcare — and Providers Collect 80 Cents of That

A self-insured employer pays $1.20–$1.30 to access a dollar of negotiated healthcare. Providers budget their business around collecting 70 to 80 cents of what they are contractually owed — because denial rates, unpaid patient...