69% of DSOs Plan More Acquisitions in 2026, TUSK Reports
Sixty-nine percent of DSOs expect their private equity sponsors to push for moderate-to-high increases in acquisition activity in 2026, according to TUSK Practice Sales’ Q2 2026 Dental Market…
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MGMA 2026 Compensation Report: Physician Pay Rises as Productivity Falls
Physician compensation rose across every specialty in 2025 even as productivity fell, according to MGMA’s 2026 Provider Compensation and Productivity Data report, drawing on data from more than…
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Agentic Engine Optimization: How to Restructure Healthcare Content for AI Agents
Agentic Engine Optimization (AEO) is the practice of structuring content so AI agents can fetch, parse, and act on it — not just render it for human readers….
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6 Health Systems Outsourcing Revenue Cycle Functions in 2026
Six U.S. health systems—including IU Health, UnityPoint Health, and Stamford Health—moved revenue cycle functions to outside vendors in the first half of 2026, signaling that RCM outsourcing has…
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The De Novo Marketing Playbook for New Healthcare Locations
De novo healthcare locations routinely underperform in their first months because media plans launch too late—often just weeks before opening, when the algorithm still needs time to learn….
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3 Investment Trends Shaping Behavioral Health Deals in 2026
Behavioral health M&A in 2026 is running slower than expected but deal activity continues. SUD treatment may be the most undervalued subsector, with deal flow at a six-year…
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Ambient AI Scribes and RVUs: What the 5.8% Finding Means
An invited commentary in JAMA Network Open by Shreya J. Shah and Patricia Garcia discusses a research letter by Holmgren and colleagues from a single academic site with…
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8 GEO Metrics Healthcare Marketers Need to Track in 2026
GEO (Generative Engine Optimization) visibility in 2026 requires tracking 8 distinct metrics that go beyond traditional SEO rankings. Search Engine Land’s Casey Nifong identifies: AI citation frequency (how…
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The Next Phase of Price Transparency: Why Medicare Advantage Should Be the Focus
Medicare Advantage (MA) already offers substantially greater price predictability than traditional Medicare — MA enrollees saw monthly out-of-pocket costs 18–24% lower than traditional Medicare from 2014 to 2019,…
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Dental Intelligence Engagement Suite Integrates With Denticon to Automate DSO Patient Communication
Dental support organizations using the Denticon practice management system can now access Dental Intelligence’s full Engagement Suite through a native integration, eliminating manual data syncs between the two…