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Where AI tools help healthcare organizations, the evidence behind them, and what they cost.
Data warehouses, reporting, dashboards and the people who build them.
Patient flow, length of stay, ED boarding, discharge delays and hospital costs.
UDS reporting, HRSA rules and the patients that community health centers serve.
Medicare and payer rules, payment models such as TEAM, claim denials, hospital margins and federal fines.
Inspections, fines, staffing and quality at nursing homes, home health agencies, hospices and senior living.
- From the blog
Privacy and security led Kent Applied's Q3 2026 AI news: 19 of 52 stories
Kent Applied, Healthcare AI news, September 2026 - From research
CMS replaces two ED measures with a boarding-and-wait measure required from 2028
CY 2026 Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System and Ambulatory Surgical Center final rule, 90 FR 53448 - From research
California hospitals with longer ED times tended to have more patients leave unseen
CMS Provider Data Catalog, Timely and Effective Care - Hospital (July 2026 release) - From research
Transfers out of California EDs took a median 398 minutes, 111 more than nationally
CMS Provider Data Catalog, Timely and Effective Care - State (July 2026 release); CMS Provider Data Catalog, Timely and Effective Care - National (July 2026 release) - From research
California's discharged ED patients: median 174 minutes; 11 states and DC were longer
CMS Provider Data Catalog, Timely and Effective Care - State (July 2026 release); CMS Provider Data Catalog, Timely and Effective Care - National (July 2026 release) - From research
California hospitals in a volume group: 74 to 413 minutes for patients sent home
CMS Provider Data Catalog, Timely and Effective Care - Hospital (July 2026 release) - From research
By ED size, California's times are near the national ones, except at the smallest EDs
CMS Provider Data Catalog, Timely and Effective Care - State (July 2026 release); CMS Provider Data Catalog, Timely and Effective Care - National (July 2026 release); CMS Provider Data Catalog, Timely and Effective Care - Hospital (July 2026 release) - From the blog
44% of nursing homes were fined in three years: 16% in Alabama, 75% in South Dakota
CMS Provider Data Catalog, Nursing Home Provider Information; CMS Provider Data Catalog, Penalties - From the blog
On emergency cases, GPT-5 alone scored 76.6%; inside Microsoft's system, 80.3%
Microsoft AI, Building Medical Superintelligence, October 22, 2026; Microsoft, MIMIC-IV-Ext-SDBench (PhysioNet, version 1.0.0); Nori and others, Sequential diagnosis with language models, Science, October 22, 2026 - From research
The .txt file was the requirement CMS cited most often in its 27 price transparency fines
CMS, Hospital Price Transparency enforcement actions - From research
Since late 2024, CMS's price transparency fines cite how the file is built and found
CMS, Hospital Price Transparency enforcement actions; 45 CFR 180.50, requirements for making public hospital standard charges (eCFR) - From research
A fine came 68 to 626 days after CMS asked the hospital for a corrective action plan
CMS, Hospital Price Transparency enforcement actions; CMS, Hospital Price Transparency Enforcement Activities and Outcomes (data.cms.gov) - From research
CMS has fined hospitals in 15 states and Puerto Rico; Texas has the most, with 5
CMS, Hospital Price Transparency enforcement actions - From research
A large bed count or a long period made the three largest price transparency fines
CMS, Hospital Price Transparency enforcement actions; 45 CFR 180.90, civil monetary penalties (eCFR) - From research
28 of CMS's 8,038 price transparency cases reached a penalty notice
CMS, Hospital Price Transparency Enforcement Activities and Outcomes (data.cms.gov) - From research
21 of the 28 hospitals on CMS's list were marked under review at some point
CMS, Hospital Price Transparency enforcement actions; HHS Departmental Appeals Board, administrative law judge decisions; 45 CFR 180.90(e)(2), a penalty under review (eCFR) - From the blog
88% of health systems use AI, and 18% have mature AI governance and strategy
HFMA, Health system adoption of AI outpaces internal governance and strategy (press release, August 14, 2025) - From the blog
In 2026, quality scores raised pay for 3,826 home health agencies and cut it for 3,395
CMS Provider Data Catalog, Expanded Home Health Value-Based Purchasing (HHVBP) Model - Agency Data, performance year 2024; CMS, Expanded Home Health Value-Based Purchasing Model - From the blog
Medicare home health pay: down 1.3% in 2026, up 2.4% in 2027 if CMS finalizes its proposal
CMS, CY 2026 Home Health Prospective Payment System final rule, December 2, 2025; CMS, CY 2027 Home Health Prospective Payment System proposed rule, 91 FR 41216, July 6, 2026 - From research
About one FDA 510(k) clearance in ten is now for a device on the AI list
FDA, Artificial Intelligence-Enabled Medical Devices; FDA, 510(k) releasable files - From research
More than half of the FDA's 2025 clearances tagged radiology were for AI-listed devices
FDA, Artificial Intelligence-Enabled Medical Devices; FDA, 510(k) releasable files - From research
Three in four AI-listed devices are in the radiology panel; its share peaked in 2020
FDA, Artificial Intelligence-Enabled Medical Devices - From research
40 devices on the FDA's AI list came through De Novo grants, each a new device type
FDA, Artificial Intelligence-Enabled Medical Devices; FDA, product classification file; FDA, De Novo Classification Request - From research
AI-listed 510(k)s took a median 141 days to a decision in 2025, against 126 for all
FDA, Artificial Intelligence-Enabled Medical Devices; FDA, 510(k) releasable files; FDA, 510(k) Submission Process - From research
A quarter of the devices on the FDA's AI list are filed under scanner product codes
FDA, Artificial Intelligence-Enabled Medical Devices; FDA, product classification file - From research
The FDA listed 335 AI-enabled devices with 2025 decisions, up from 18 in 2016
FDA, Artificial Intelligence-Enabled Medical Devices - From the blog
OpenAI cut GPT-5.6 Luna's output price by 80% in July 2026
OpenAI, API changelog (July 30, August 21 and September 29, 2026); OpenAI, GPT-5.6 Luna model page; Max Woolf, OpenAI and Anthropic cut their LLM prices by up to 80% within a few months (October 25, 2026); Anthropic, Claude Opus 5.5 (September 22, 2026) - From the blog
CMS has published 27 price transparency fines since 2022, 10 each in 2023 and 2025
CMS, Hospital Price Transparency enforcement actions; 45 CFR 180.90, civil monetary penalties (eCFR) - From the blog
Benchmarks cover 12 of 89 healthcare practitioner jobs, 0 of 19 healthcare support jobs
Mercor, A benchmark map of the US economy - From the blog
56% of medical group leaders said their group had no AI governance or AI use policy
MGMA Stat, AI governance in medical group practices: Rules for the humans in the loop (January 21, 2026) - From the blog
Hospitals and doctors' offices pay data scientists below the $120,230 US median
BLS, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025: all industries; BLS, May 2025 national estimates by industry; BLS, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics questions and answers; BLS, Handbook of Methods: Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, Calculation - From the blog
4 of the 7 practice problems on Kent Applied's map need no patient data
Kent Applied, Where AI tools fit in healthcare, by kind of organization; NYC Local Law 144; California Civil Rights Council - From the blog
Imaging, insurance checks, charting and billing lead dentists' current and planned AI use
ADA Health Policy Institute, The State of the US Dental Economy, 2nd Quarter 2026 Update - From research
30 of 44 top healthcare problems need no patient data, in Kent Applied's analysis
Kent Applied, Where AI tools fit in healthcare, by kind of organization; NYC Local Law 144; California Civil Rights Council - From research
Health care and social assistance firms use AI at about the US rate, half the top sector's
US Census Bureau, Business Trends and Outlook Survey (sector estimates); BTOS national estimates; US Census Bureau, Business Trends and Outlook Survey (about the survey); US Census Bureau, 2022 NAICS descriptions - From research
Hospital drug expenses grew 13.6% in 2025, nearly twice as fast as total expenses
American Hospital Association, Costs of Caring 2026 (March 2026) - From research
Of the 44 problems, 13 are about money and payers and 10 about rules, surveys and audits
Kent Applied, Where AI tools fit in healthcare, by kind of organization - From research
In 4 of 1,539 TEAM hospital and surgery pairs, the stay alone costs more than the target
Kent Applied, TEAM position report and method; CMS, TEAM PY1 preliminary target prices; CMS, Medicare Inpatient Hospitals by Provider and Service, 2024; CMS, TEAM episode construction specifications; CMS, payment standardization method - From the blog
At the median TEAM hospital, the hospital stay uses 38% to 70% of the target, by surgery
Kent Applied, TEAM position report and method; CMS, TEAM PY1 preliminary target prices; CMS, Medicare Inpatient Hospitals by Provider and Service, 2024; CMS, TEAM episode construction specifications; CMS, payment standardization method; CMS, TEAM model page - From the blog
A TEAM hospital in Track 3 can owe CMS up to 20% of its total target price in a year
CMS, TEAM Model Overview slides (updated September 2026); 42 CFR 512.550, TEAM reconciliation (eCFR) - From the blog
Only 5% of organizations put a custom or vendor-sold generative AI tool into production
MIT NANDA, The GenAI Divide: State of AI in Business 2025 (July 2025) - From research
Readmissions cost all payers up to $44 billion; Medicare's cost is put at $15 to 26 billion
Perspectives in Health Information Management (2016), where the $44 billion is quoted; Harvard Kennedy School, Transitional Care Models for the Elderly (2015); Kent Applied, Where healthcare AI has proof, and where it does not - From research
No source could be found for the HIMSS 60% and 35% prior authorization figures
SPRY, Which Prior Authorization Software Ranks #1 in 2026? AI-Powered Solutions Compared (2026); Fierce Healthcare on the Peterson Health Technology Institute report, April 13, 2026; Kent Applied, Where healthcare AI has proof, and where it does not - From research
Explore seven healthcare AI areas and the sources behind each score
Kent Applied, Where healthcare AI has evidence (explorer); Kent Applied, Where healthcare AI has proof, and where it does not - From research
Two of six healthcare AI use cases have at least moderate evidence on all three outcomes
Kent Applied, Where healthcare AI has proof, and where it does not - From the blog
HRSA puts one UDS report at 238 staff hours, and 184 after the 2026 changes
HRSA, Federal Register notice, June 23, 2025; HRSA, Federal Register notice, June 16, 2026; OMB, approval record, September 3, 2026 - From research
Explore six healthcare AI use cases and the evidence behind each score
Kent Applied, The three-outcome test (explorer); Kent Applied, Where healthcare AI has proof, and where it does not - From research
Two of seven healthcare AI areas have the evidence to adopt now
Kent Applied, Where healthcare AI has proof, and where it does not - From research
The 320% documentation AI growth figure compares plans with current use
Healthcare Dive, sponsored content by Microsoft, March 10, 2025; Kent Applied, Where healthcare AI has proof, and where it does not - From the blog
Hiring a generative AI data scientist on your own can take 14 to 20 weeks or more
KORE1, Time to fill a data scientist role in 2026 - From the blog
Of eight specific pressures in an HFMA survey, CFOs feel least prepared for AI deployment
HFMA, The healthcare C-suite of the future: From AI to ROI (2025) - From the blog
In this worked example, building costs $94,000 less than buying over three years
Kent Applied, How to score an AI vendor before the demo - From the blog
A boarded med-surg stroke patient cost nearly twice as much a day as one on a ward
Canellas et al., Annals of Emergency Medicine, vol. 84 (2024) - From the blog
Hopkins assigned ED patients a bed 30% faster after opening a command center
Johns Hopkins Medicine, Capacity Command Center news release (October 2016) - From the blog
Length of stay rose most for patients going to psychiatric hospitals or skilled nursing
American Hospital Association, Increasing Delays in Timely Discharges issue brief (December 2022) - From the blog
Payers initially denied nearly 12% of hospital and physician claims in 2024
Kodiak Solutions, press release on 2024 initial denial rates (May 21, 2025) - From the blog
Billing and scheduling were the fastest-growing hospital uses of predictive AI in 2024
ASTP, Data Brief No. 80: Hospital Trends in the Use, Evaluation, and Governance of Predictive AI, 2023-2024 (September 2025) - From the blog
Finding a place that would take the patient caused the most discharge delay days
HANYS, The scope of complex case discharge delays in New York state (2023) - From the blog
Cincinnati Children's went from 76% to 91% occupancy after smoothing its surgery schedule
Eugene Litvak, Bridging the Gap, National Academies presentation (2012); Institute for Healthcare Improvement, Achieving Hospital-wide Patient Flow, 2nd edition (2020)
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Sources for the figures above
- CY 2026 Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System and Ambulatory Surgical Center final rule, 90 FR 53448 (opens in a new tab)
- federalregister.gov (opens in a new tab)
- Microsoft, MIMIC-IV-Ext-SDBench (PhysioNet, version 1.0.0) (opens in a new tab)
- HFMA, Health system adoption of AI outpaces internal governance and strategy (press release, August 14, 2025) (opens in a new tab)
- CMS, CY 2026 Home Health Prospective Payment System final rule, December 2, 2025 (opens in a new tab)
- CMS, CY 2027 Home Health Prospective Payment System proposed rule, 91 FR 41216, July 6, 2026 (opens in a new tab)
- FDA, De Novo Classification Request (opens in a new tab)
- OpenAI, API changelog (July 30, August 21 and September 29, 2026) (opens in a new tab)
- OpenAI, GPT-5.6 Luna model page (opens in a new tab)
- Max Woolf, OpenAI and Anthropic cut their LLM prices by up to 80% within a few months (October 25, 2026) (opens in a new tab)
- MGMA Stat, AI governance in medical group practices: Rules for the humans in the loop (January 21, 2026) (opens in a new tab)
- mgma.com (opens in a new tab)
- BLS, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025: all industries (opens in a new tab)
- US Census Bureau, Business Trends and Outlook Survey (sector estimates) (opens in a new tab)
- Business Trends and Outlook Survey, national estimates (opens in a new tab)
- American Hospital Association, Costs of Caring 2026 (March 2026) (opens in a new tab)
- 42 CFR 512.550, Reconciliation process and determination of the reconciliation payment or repayment amount (opens in a new tab)
- MIT NANDA, The GenAI Divide: State of AI in Business 2025 (July 2025) (opens in a new tab)
- Perspectives in Health Information Management (2016), where the $44 billion is quoted (opens in a new tab)
- Harvard Kennedy School, Transitional Care Models for the Elderly (2015) (opens in a new tab)
- HRSA Uniform Data System information collection notice, Federal Register, June 23, 2025 (opens in a new tab)
- HRSA Uniform Data System information collection notice, Federal Register, June 16, 2026 (opens in a new tab)
- This healthcare AI use case will grow 320% by 2026, survey finds (opens in a new tab)
- KORE1, Time to fill a data scientist role in 2026 (opens in a new tab)
- HFMA, The healthcare C-suite of the future: From AI to ROI (2025) (opens in a new tab)
- Canellas MM et al., Measurement of Cost of Boarding in the Emergency Department Using Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing, Annals of Emergency Medicine 84(4) (opens in a new tab)
- The Johns Hopkins Hospital Launches Capacity Command Center to Enhance Hospital Operations (news release) (opens in a new tab)
- American Hospital Association, Increasing Delays in Timely Discharges issue brief (December 2022) (opens in a new tab)
- Rate of initial denials of medical insurance claims continued to rise in 2024, Kodiak Solutions proprietary data show (opens in a new tab)
- ASTP, Data Brief No. 80: Hospital Trends in the Use, Evaluation, and Governance of Predictive AI, 2023-2024 (September 2025) (opens in a new tab)
- HANYS, The scope of complex case discharge delays in New York state (2023) (opens in a new tab)
- Eugene Litvak, Bridging the Gap: Operations Management Science, Patient Safety and Health Care Cost (presentation) (opens in a new tab)
- Institute for Healthcare Improvement, Achieving Hospital-wide Patient Flow, 2nd edition (2020) (opens in a new tab)
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