CMS’s Federal Provider Directory for Medicare Advantage: A Long-Overdue Reckoning With Ghost Networks
An Analytical Review of the New Regulatory Framework, Its Implications, and the Road Ahead By Elena Pak, Credentialing Department, WCH…
Oscar Health Transitions Provider Contracts to Oscar Management Corporation: What Every In-Network Provider Must Know
Analysis of Oscar Health’s Notice of Entity Expansion and Exhibit 7.3 — February 2026 By Nana Kazhiloti, Credentialing Department, WCH…
The End of Paper: CMS’s Mandatory Shift to Electronic CLIA Communications and What It Means for Over 300,000 U.S. Laboratories
An Analytical Review of the March 2026 Transition, Its Scope, Compliance Obligations, and Operational Implications By Elena Pak, Credentialing Department,…
Your Gut Has a Mind of Its Own: Inside the Gut-Brain Axis Revolution
How the trillions of microbes living in your digestive system may be quietly shaping your mental health — and why…
The Brain You Were Born With: How Adult ADHD and Autism Diagnoses Are Rewriting the Rules of Mental Health
A growing movement is pushing medicine to stop trying to fix neurodivergent minds — and start building a world they…
The 2026 IR Coding Overhaul: What Every Billing Specialist Needs to Know
By Valeriya Nifadeva, Billing Department, WCH Imagine this: a vascular surgeon completes a complex multi-vessel lower extremity revascularization — technically…
Telehealth in Primary Care: From Pandemic Surge to Structural Equilibrium
An Analytical Review of Virtual Care’s New Normal By Elena Pak, Credentialing Department, WCH The COVID-19 pandemic fundamentally disrupted how…
We Are Pre-Polluted: Microplastics, Your Hormones, and the New Detox
Key Takeaways Pre-Polluted “When I was born, there were probably no plastics in my brain,” said Matthew Campen, a toxicologist…
Coffee, Tea, and Dementia Risk: What 43 Years of Data Tell Us
Based on Zhang Y et al., “Coffee and Tea Intake, Dementia Risk, and Cognitive Function,” JAMA, published February 9, 2026…
Patient-Controlled Analgesia: A Clinical Overview
Prompted by the NEJM video and review published February 18, 2026 (Vol. 394, No. 8) What Is Patient-Controlled Analgesia? Pain…