
The Strategist in Brief: August 6, 2026
This week, our quarterly What's Next Digest offers four predictions on payer mix headwinds, 340B claims-data mandates, AI-enabled cyberattacks, and OpenEvidence's health system expansion.

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The Strategy Catalyst Dispatch brings healthcare strategy professionals into the room with leading health system executives to explore how innovation, clinical leadership, and enterprise strategy intersect. Designed for strategy executives, physician leaders, and healthcare innovators, the podcast offers actionable takeaways to help organizations drive both clinical and financial impact.
The Health Management Academy hosts The Strategy Catalyst Dispatch, a business show with 54 episodes published.

This week, our quarterly What's Next Digest offers four predictions on payer mix headwinds, 340B claims-data mandates, AI-enabled cyberattacks, and OpenEvidence's health system expansion.

In this episode of The Strategy Catalyst Dispatch, Shoeb Sitafalwalla, Senior Executive Vice President and Chief Strategy Officer at Advocate Health, walks us through care model engineering, Advocate's approach to design

This week's episode covers Amazon's evolving One Medical strategy and health system partnerships, physician specialty happiness survey results, and HHS's delay of the HIPAA Security Rule update.

The CY2027 OPPS proposed rule (340B cut, site-neutral imaging), Cassidy's 340B reform discussion draft, and Optum's negotiations to sell New York specialty practices from Crystal Run.

This week's episode covers the House vote to defund the WISeR prior authorization pilot, Eli Lilly's 340B enforcement actions, Nebraska Medicine's National Quarantine Unit, and an HHS OIG report on Medicare Advantage pri

THMA-Tegria research finds 82% of systems call access a strategic pillar but most have trouble executing. We unpack the finance gap, post-acute blind spots, and the governance structures that separate progress from prior

This week's episode covers proposed Medicaid payment caps, insights from chief physician executives, the medical student shortage, Eli Lilly's 340B ultimatum, and a court ruling on Medicare Advantage star ratings.

This week's episode covers four hard truths shaping AI strategy for 2026, new CMS rules overhauling the ACA marketplaces, Q1 margin recovery, and a six-month moratorium on new home health and hospice enrollment.

This week's episode covers Q1 hospital earnings, UnitedHealthcare's prior authorization rollback, the proposed CJR-X model, J-1 visa delays, and CMS's Medicaid revalidation push.

We dig into how St. Charles Health System, a four-hospital not-for-profit in Central Oregon and the sole major provider across a 32,000-square-mile service area, went from seven Medicare Advantage payers down to one and

This week's episode covers five big ideas from the Spring CSO Forum, CVS's new pharmacy-only stores, Amazon and Walmart's competing GLP-1 programs, Baylor Scott & White's health plan exit, and who's in and out of the CMS

This episode recaps three key themes from the 2026 Strategy Catalyst Summit: what it takes to move service line rationalization from theory to action, what a live scenario planning exercise revealed about strategic prepa

This week's episode covers the finalized Medicare Advantage rate increase, new research on AI scribes, Anthropic's unreleased Claude Mythos model and cybersecurity implications, and MedPAC's findings on Medicare Advantag

This week's episode covers the Sutter Health and Allina Health merger announcement, CMS administrator Mehmet Oz's comments on AI agents for Medicare, key insights from the Strategy Catalyst Summit, and THMA's executive p

Dr. Peter Newcomer, SVP and Chief Operating Officer at UW Health, walks us through how two organizations that used to compete built a financially aligned, strategically coordinated partnership — without merging. We dig i

This week's episode covers the American Medical Association's new maternity payment codes, our new CSO Advisory Council, health system access strategy survey results, and insights on consumer segmentation.

In this episode, we share highlights from a recent Strategy Catalyst webinar where Liz Jones, Research Director, walked strategy leaders through three disruptors reshaping service lines in 2026 and tested a few intention

This week's episode covers Humana's acquisition of MaxHealth, the Trump administration's antitrust appeal, the Supreme Court's tariff ruling, CMS's new ACCESS model rates, and CVS's new GLP-1 drug access service.

This week's episode covers the end of the proposed 340B rebate pilot, healthcare earnings highlights from HCA, UnitedHealth, and Amazon, the MA rate announcement shaking up payer stocks, ChenMed's new stance on GLP-1s, a

This week's episode covers key takeaways from the JP Morgan Healthcare Conference, the bipartisan healthcare reform package in Congress, insights from our latest Strategy Catalyst webinar on payviders, PE, and distributo
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