Medicaid Fraud Enforcement Has Entered a New Phase — and Providers Should Not Assume This Is Political Theater
Large-scale Medicaid fraud discussions followed a familiar pattern in American healthcare for a long time. There would be a headline, a press conference, a Department of Justice (DOJ)…
The Loneliness Variable in Clinical Care: Why Social Connection Is Becoming a Healthcare Risk Indicator
For decades, healthcare systems have treated loneliness as a soft variable — emotionally important, clinically secondary, and operationally difficult to quantify. That assumption is rapidly collapsing. The U.S.…
Ghost Networks Were Once an Embarrassment. Now They’re Becoming a Liability.
By Elena Pak, Credentiaing Department, WCH For years, provider directories occupied a strange place in healthcare administration: everyone knew they were inaccurate, nobody trusted them completely, and yet…
The Telehealth Patchwork Enters a Higher-Compliance Era: What the Latest Wave of State Policy Changes Signals for Providers
By Elena Pak, Credentialing Department, WCH The operational baseline for telehealth was defined by temporary waivers, emergency declarations, and a general regulatory posture of leniency. The industry acclimated…
CMS Has Hit “Pause” on New Hospice and Home Health Enrollment — What Dr. Oz’s Public Messaging Really Signals for Providers
When CMS Administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz recently communicated — including through widely circulated public-facing and social media statements — that the agency is temporarily freezing enrollment of new…
OIG Sounds the Alarm — and RAC Auditors Follow: What Every Vascular Physician Needs to Know Right Now
Federal enforcement is now targeting peripheral vascular procedures, selective catheter placement, angiograms, and vascular embolizations simultaneously. Here is what changed, what is at stake, and what to do.…
Malpractice Risk Is Declining — But Don’t Let That Number Fool You
By Elena Pak, Credentialing Department, WCH The headline from the American Medical Association’s latest research report sounds reassuring: the share of physicians who have faced a malpractice lawsuit…
Five Dreamy Summer 2026 Getaways
For New York’s doctors, clinicians, and healthcare professionals By Elena Pak, Credentialing Department, WCH Summer 2026 feels like an invitation to breathe differently. For people who spend most…
The Medicare Advantage Improvement Act of 2026: What Providers Need to Know — and Do Now
By Elena Pak, Credentialing Department, WCH A bipartisan group of lawmakers has introduced the Medicare Advantage Improvement Act of 2026 in both the House and Senate, targeting prior…
When Your Doctor Travels, Does Your Billing Compliance Stay Behind?
By Olga Khabinskay, Director of Operations, WCH Service Bureau This article is an expanded version of a piece originally published in Medical Economics. Many physicians assume that being…
Cybersecurity in Interventional Radiology: A Clinical Imperative
Why protecting your digital infrastructure is as critical as sterile technique
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