The Coming Wave of Algorithmic Payer “Revenue Recapture” Is Your Problem Too The Real Threat Isn’t Administrative—It’s Existential 2026 marks a turning point: payer “revenue recapture” is no longer just a battle waged by your providers. Major payers like Anthem (Elevance Health) are weaponizing out-of-network penalties against hospitals—not as a reimbursement tweak, but as a […]
What Medical Device Executives Need to Know About AI Adoption and Its Impact On Sales In medtech, you live by the numbers. Conversion rates. Pipeline velocity. Case volume. But when it comes to AI, many of your surgeons are making decisions without the same rigor they’d apply to the evaluation of the medical devices they […]
Brad Bichey, MD, MPH | CEO Nemedic, Inc. Why This Matters—Now More Than Ever If you’re a medical device executive watching AI integrations roll out across healthcare, you need to be aware of a new threat: watching your surgeons outsource their AI agenda to EHR companies is not just an IT decision, it’s a commercial […]
Every missed call is a patient you already paid for Your practice spent money to make the phone ring. Google Ads, SEO, physician referrals, your Google Business Profile — all of it funnels towards the patient picking up the phone and calling. Don’t let that invested time and money go to waste. Most specialty practices […]
EXECUTIVE BRIEF Why Medical Device Executives Must Act Now: The Strategic Risk Artificial intelligence (AI) is reshaping healthcare. But if its future in surgery is defined by electronic health record (EHR) companies, AI will not reduce inefficiency—it will scale it. EHR-driven AI solutions focus on automating outdated workflows: fax handling, compliance clicks, and billing tasks. […]
A Watershed Moment for Innovative Medical Device Companies Old World: Closed Systems and Inherent Trust In the old healthcare order, scale and control defined success. Health systems acquired primary care practices with a single goal: capturing patient lives. Once inside the system, patients were referred internally to hospital-owned specialists and surgeons. Options were limited, transparency […]
The Current AI Paradox in Healthcare The Wall Street Journal recently highlighted a striking paradox: while more than 78% of organizations report adopting AI, the majority are failing to achieve measurable productivity gains. Healthcare reflects this same reality. Too often, AI is applied as a superficial layer—speeding up a single process—rather than reimagining how the […]
Every specialty practice has one. Somewhere in your EHR, there’s a list of referred patients who were contacted — normally two or three times — but never scheduled. They sit there as “outstanding referrals,” quietly aging out while your staff moves on to today’s inbox. Each unscheduled referral represents $300 to $1,000 or more in […]
I founded Nemedic after realizing that the complex bureaucratic environment within surgery is a significant factor contributing to burnout across the industry. This bureaucratic chaos often detracts from our primary focus on patient care, and it’s clear that existing interventions have been largely ineffective in addressing this issue. Empirical evidence suggests that the implementation of […]
Overcoming Barriers to Innovative Care and Streamlining the Patient Journey In today’s increasingly digitized world, the gap between what’s possible in medical innovation and what’s accessible to both surgeons and patients continues to widen. For surgeons, integrating new technologies into their practice comes with a set of challenges that exacerbate existing issues such as burnout, […]
The Fax Machine Is Still King, But It’s Burying Your Referrals Here’s an uncomfortable truth about specialty practices: the fax machine isn’t going anywhere. Across all surgical specialty groups, faxes remain a primary new patient channel. Primary care physicians, urgent care clinics, and others still rely on that familiar hum of the fax machine to […]