Provider-side analysis on managed care contracting and value-based care, plus a weekly countdown of the healthcare news that moved.https://sevenya.comen-ushttps://sevenya.com/news/2026-09-04https://sevenya.com/news/2026-09-0401. UnitedHealthcare drops prior authorization on 1,700 codes · 02. The uninsured are back in the data · 03. Carriers are leaving whole markets · 04. Two systems walked from their payers · 05. The whistleblower pipeline survives a constitutional challenge · 06. The 340B cut is on the clock · 07. A merger cleared, with the payer clause written into the settlement · 08. The FTC drew a line on distressed-hospital mergers · 09. Nine and a half million records exposed, and a device maker’s shipments stalled · 10. Congress wants the arbitrators’ booksFri, 04 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTThe Sevenya Tenhttps://sevenya.com/policy/coverage-is-shrinking-cost-sharing-is-rising-and-primary-care-use-is-fallinghttps://sevenya.com/policy/coverage-is-shrinking-cost-sharing-is-rising-and-primary-care-use-is-fallingWhat a decade of employer-coverage data means for value-based networks — and the case for a first-dollar primary care layer underneath the deductible.Wed, 17 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTPolicy analysisPolicyhttps://sevenya.com/policy/the-high-road-is-the-best-road-in-negotiationshttps://sevenya.com/policy/the-high-road-is-the-best-road-in-negotiationsA hospital system, a dominant payer, and a moment where the tempting move would have cost more than it won. Based on an engagement our team lived through.Thu, 11 Apr 2024 00:00:00 GMTPolicy analysisNegotiationhttps://sevenya.com/policy/creating-leverage-when-you-have-nothing-to-losehttps://sevenya.com/policy/creating-leverage-when-you-have-nothing-to-loseUnskilled negotiators seek victory through power and coercion. Real leverage is creativity, nuance, and reframing the problem — using a dominant payer’s strengths against their position.Wed, 03 Apr 2024 00:00:00 GMTPolicy analysisNegotiationhttps://sevenya.com/policy/compassion-for-opioid-usershttps://sevenya.com/policy/compassion-for-opioid-usersA neighbor, a back injury, a prescription — and everything that followed. Why addiction is rarely the moral failing people assume it to be.Tue, 09 Oct 2018 00:00:00 GMTPolicy analysisPublic healthhttps://sevenya.com/policy/care-management-next-tech-evolutionhttps://sevenya.com/policy/care-management-next-tech-evolutionCare management operates under hard resource limits, so we spend nearly everything on a tiny fraction of the population. What it would take to reach rising risk instead.Fri, 12 Jan 2018 00:00:00 GMTPolicy analysisPopulation healthhttps://sevenya.com/policy/jacks-storyhttps://sevenya.com/policy/jacks-storyA patient discharged after a serious battle with sepsis, and everything the system did and did not do next. Delivered to the World Congress ACO and Population Health conference.Fri, 25 Mar 2016 00:00:00 GMTPolicy analysisPopulation healthhttps://sevenya.com/policy/acos-are-a-path-not-a-destinationhttps://sevenya.com/policy/acos-are-a-path-not-a-destinationThe conversation every population health executive has had with a hospital CFO about $10 million of reduced inpatient revenue — and how to answer it honestly.Sat, 26 Sep 2015 00:00:00 GMTPolicy analysisACO