Author: wchinsights
State Telehealth Policy Shifts, Summer 2026: What Providers Need to Know Now
A practical briefing for telehealth providers, compliance officers, and health system administrators by Elena Pak, Credentialing Department, WCH Why This…
Site-Neutral Payment Comes for Imaging
By Elina Sabilova, CPC, CFPC, CPMA — Billing Department, WCH Buried on page after page of the CY 2027 OPPS proposed rule that CMS…
A Colleague’s Take on “Stop Pathologizing Ordinary Life”
If you haven’t seen Clay Routledge’s July 26 op-ed in the New York Times yet, chances are a partner in…
ChatGPT Now Reads Your Chart. Here’s What That Means for the Exam Room.
OpenAI made Health in ChatGPT available to all US users age 18 and older this week, and the number that…
Northwell and Fidelis Are Out of Network — And Every Provider Should Be Paying Attention to Why
As of July 16, roughly 240,000 people in the New York metro area lost in-network access to Northwell Health, the…
The Provider Tax Squeeze Just Got Real: What CMS’s New Rule Means for Medicaid Revenue
By Elena Pak, Credentialing Department, WCH Every hospital finance director and every practice that leans on Medicaid volume has heard…
When the Algorithm Becomes the Adjuster: Senate Scrutiny of AI in Medicare Advantage Denials
By Elena Pak, Credentialing Department, WCH Two senators just gave three of the country’s largest health insurers two weeks to…