The Uninsured Rate Is Rising: What the 11.2% Figure Means for Clinical Practice
An analysis for physicians by Sanjar Odilov, Credentialing Department, WCH The Headline Number, and What It Actually Measures The Commonwealth…
When the Parent Company Gets in Trouble, Your Medicare Number May Too
By Elena Pak, Credentialing Department, WCH A new CMS enrollment rule reaches past the provider to its owners. Here is…
Goodbye 92507: What Physicians Need to Know About Medicare’s New Speech Therapy Codes
From January 1, the code that most speech-language pathologists have billed for decades disappears. The change reaches referring physicians more…
Counting Blessings Without Fooling Yourself: What Gratitude Practices Can and Cannot Do in Medicine
Thanksgiving is on November 26. Before the season of heartfelt posts begins, a skeptic’s guide to what thankfulness can do…
CMS Finalizes the 2027 Physician Fee Schedule: Lower Conversion Factors, Billing Changes, and a Mandatory Heart Failure Model
An analysis for physicians and practice leaders by Tatyana Kantor, Billing Department, WCH On November 4, 2026, CMS issued the…
Nearly 20 Million People. One Legacy-System Breach. What Healthcare Practices Need to Know.
What Happens When a Healthcare System’s Past Becomes Its Biggest Security Risk? In early 2025, an unauthorized party got into…