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The Strategy Catalyst Dispatch

The Strategy Catalyst Dispatch

Written by: The Health Management Academy
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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.

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Episodes
  • The Strategist in Brief: May 28, 2026

    The Strategist in Brief: May 28, 2026
    May 28 2026

    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.

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    4 mins
  • The Strategist in Brief: May 14, 2026

    The Strategist in Brief: May 14, 2026
    May 14 2026

    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.

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    6 mins
  • How St. Charles Turned Clinical Quality into Payer Leverage: From Seven MA Payers to One

    How St. Charles Turned Clinical Quality into Payer Leverage: From Seven MA Payers to One
    May 12 2026

    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 then turned a twenty-year track record of clinical quality into a negotiating tool that cut cancer treatment authorization times from weeks to a single day.

    Matt Swafford, CFO, and Mark Hallett, Chief Clinical Officer, walk us through the decision to terminate contracts with six national MA payers, how they used NCCN concordance rates to negotiate instant authorization with PacificSource, and the CFO-CCO partnership model that enabled it all.
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    27 mins
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