HealthLeaders

01/13/2026

In the final days of the fourth fiscal quarter, two health system CEOs face the same dilemma: how to improve patient outcomes while strengthening financial performance. Find out what actions they took in this Premier Inc. sponsored article https://bit.ly/3Nkhd8G

A system-wide approach that strengthens margins and elevates the patient financial experience. A Tale of Two CEOs In the final days of the fourth fiscal quarter, two health system CEOs face the same dilemma: how to improve patient outcomes while strengthening financial performance. Both have five ye...

01/08/2026

Late-stage cancer diagnoses persist as significant obstacles to improving survival rates, controlling costs, and achieving earlier intervention at scale—despite decades of progress in screening for a handful of tumor types. Multi-cancer early detection (MCED) aims to change that. Read the sponsored Exact Sciences article https://bit.ly/49bD1vN

Exact Science’s Michelle Beidelschies, PhD, reveals how a multi-biomarker class multi-cancer early detection test (MCED) blood test can help health systems expand detection across more cancers earlier

01/06/2026

Healthcare CFOs are navigating a complex and volatile environment shaped by policy uncertainty, workforce shortfalls, technological disruption, and evolving payer dynamics. Those industrywide challenges framed the discussions at September’s HealthLeaders CFO Exchange. Bank of America https://bit.ly/4q8C25p

Healthcare CFOs are navigating a complex and volatile environment shaped by policy uncertainty, workforce shortfalls, technological disruption, and evolving payer dynamics. Those industrywide challenges framed the discussions at September’s HealthLeaders CFO Exchange.

01/05/2026

A 2025 review of behavioral health networks across Medicare Advantage and Medicaid managed care found that 72% of the inactive providers included should not have been listed in the insurer’s network. Understand the human and financial cost in this LexisNexis Risk Solutions article https://bit.ly/3LubFIc

LexisNexis® Risk Solutions examines how ghost networks are rooted in misaligned incentives, fragmented systems and ever-changing data. Health plans who master provider directories gain a competitive advantage.

12/24/2025

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12/22/2025

In this conversation, Tomasz Beer, MD discusses how to begin implementing MCED in health systems now, how the Cancerguard® test—developed by Exact Sciences—uses a multi-biomarker class approach to improve early detection, and how the diagnostic workflow was designed to fit cleanly into existing care delivery. Read the article now https://bit.ly/49aKXfv

Exact Sciences’ Tomasz Beer, MD, explains how multi-cancer early detection is moving out of research and into practice—bringing new clinical and operational considerations with it

12/15/2025

Exact Sciences’ Tomasz Beer, MD, explains how multi-cancer early detection is moving out of research and into practice—bringing new clinical and operational considerations with it. Learn more in this article: https://bit.ly/3MAEB1r

Exact Sciences’ Tomasz Beer, MD, explains how multi-cancer early detection is moving out of research and into practice—bringing new clinical and operational considerations with it

12/10/2025

In this article, Jim Bohnsack, chief strategy and client officer at Aspirion, unpacks how hospitals can use AI to meet payers on equal footing. https://bit.ly/4iPiDUv

As payers automate denials at scale, hospitals must respond in kind—deploying AI not as a future strategy, but as an immediate necessity to preserve revenue and protect care decisions.

12/08/2025

Community hospitals are at a crossroads. Shrinking margins, policy shifts like recent legislation, and mounting Medicaid constraints are stretching organizations thin. Yet one thing hasn’t changed: the communities these hospitals serve still need access to high-quality, local care. Understand the solution in this Mayo Clinic article https://bit.ly/4oCYstZ

Community hospitals face shrinking margins and rising demands. Discover how the Mayo Clinic Care Network helps organizations stay independent, strengthen care, and improve financial performance through expert collaboration, digital tools, and cost-effective innovation.

12/04/2025

Hospitals are facing a new kind of denial—one that’s harder to detect, harder to fight, and quietly draining millions from the bottom line. Payers are no longer just rejecting claims for missing codes or paperwork; they’re using AI to retroactively question the clinical validity of services that were already approved and delivered.

Learn more from this Aspirion sponsored article https://bit.ly/4axfaaN

As payers automate denials at scale, hospitals must respond in kind—deploying AI not as a future strategy, but as an immediate necessity to preserve revenue and protect care decisions.

12/03/2025

Shrinking margins, policy shifts like recent legislation, and mounting Medicaid constraints are stretching organizations thin. Yet one thing hasn’t changed: the communities these hospitals serve still need access to high-quality, local care.

Read more about the ways your organization could leverage tools, resources, and digital solutions in this Mayo Clinic article https://bit.ly/48hUQsH

Community hospitals face shrinking margins and rising demands. Discover how the Mayo Clinic Care Network helps organizations stay independent, strengthen care, and improve financial performance through expert collaboration, digital tools, and cost-effective innovation.

12/02/2025

When consumers choose a health plan, they assume the provider directory reflects the care providers available to them. Too often, that’s not the case. Learn about ghost networks in this LexisNexis Risk Solutions sponsored article https://bit.ly/3MbgHcF

LexisNexis® Risk Solutions examines how ghost networks are rooted in misaligned incentives, fragmented systems and ever-changing data. Health plans who master provider directories gain a competitive advantage.