Research
Statistics, market reports, and magazine lists on healthcare software and services.
Medicare Advantage Prior Authorization Denial Rate Statistics: 2026 Report
The first federally required prior authorization reports from UnitedHealthcare, Humana and Aetna, covering 136 Medicare Advantage contracts in 2025: standard and expedited denial rates, the spread from contract to contract, and how often appeals end in approval.
Health System Operating Margin Benchmarks: 2026 Report
Operating margin percentiles for nonprofit hospital organizations from 6,750 IRS Form 990 returns, fiscal 2021 to 2023: the slide from a 6.8% median to 1.5%, benchmarks by revenue size, operating vs total margin, and results for Kaiser, UPMC, Cleveland Clinic and other large systems.
Hospital Price Transparency Compliance Statistics: 2026 Report
Every CMS price transparency enforcement action since 2021, covering 5,258 hospitals: warning and corrective action plan counts by year, how often hospitals pass on first review, the April 2026 spike under the new rules, and all 27 published penalties with amounts.
FDA AI Medical Device Approval Statistics: 2026 Report
A count of the AI-enabled devices on the FDA's list through June 29, 2026, by year, pathway (510(k), De Novo and PMA), medical specialty and company, with median 510(k) review times and the countries where device makers are based.
Medicare AI Reimbursement Statistics: 2026 Report
What Medicare pays for 39 AI and software analysis billing codes, from HeartFlow's coronary CT analysis to AI retinal screening, with 2026 hospital outpatient and physician fee schedule rates, rate changes from 2025, and Part B payments by code family from 2023 to 2025.
Hospital Bad Debt Statistics: 2026 Report
We analyzed the Medicare cost reports of 4,373 US hospitals and break down their bad debt, the bills patients owe and do not pay, for fiscal 2024 against fiscal 2023, at charges and at cost, by state, hospital type and ownership, and next to charity care.
Telehealth Customer Acquisition Cost: 2026 Report
We compared marketing spending per net new customer at six publicly traded telehealth companies and share our breakdown of paid advertising per customer, the change from 2024 and marketing as a share of revenue.
No Surprises Act Arbitration Statistics: 2026 Report
Every quarter of CMS federal independent dispute resolution (IDR) data for 2024 and 2025, with prevailing-party rates, the parties filing the most disputes, and median offers by specialty and service code.
Voices of Healthcare: 30 People Changing Health Tech (2026)
An independent editorial list of 30 founders, academics, researchers, and investors whose work is changing how software and services reach clinics, hospitals, and patients.
RCM Outsourcing Pricing Statistics: 2026 Report
We collected 1,184 priced RCM engagements from contracts, proposals, and rate cards and share how outsourcing is priced across U.S. provider organizations.
Healthcare SaaS Sales Cycle Length Statistics: 2026 Report
We tracked 1,062 closed-won contracts from 214 health technology vendors and share sales-cycle length patterns for software sold into U.S. providers and payers.
Healthcare Staffing Agency Markup Statistics: 2026 Report
We collected 6,410 matched bill and pay rate pairs across 214 facilities and 83 staffing firms and share our breakdown of markup by clinician type, bill-rate anatomy, contract structure, facility type, and the travel-RN quarterly trend.
EHR Implementation Cost Overrun Statistics: 2026 Report
We compared board-approved budgets against twelve-month spend for 412 EHR implementations and share our breakdown of overrun by organization type, where the overrun dollars go, go-live approach and duration, and the year-by-year trend.
Ambient AI Scribe ROI Statistics: 2026 Report
We studied 412 ambient scribe deployments covering 38,600 licensed clinicians and share our breakdown of specialty cost and return, return sources, adoption by buyer category, and quarterly price and payback.
Ambient documentation leaves the pilot ward
This note follows ambient clinical documentation from 2024 pilots into 2026 budget lines and shares our breakdown of diligence questions, specialty coverage, and pricing opacity.