by Ben Maisano | Oct 8, 2026 | Blog, Resources, Tendo Marketplace, Tendo Spotlight
Direct-to-employer contracting is changing how employers pay for care, and orthopedics is where the model is proving itself first. When a self-funded employer contracts directly with providers for a defined set of services at a known price, everyone gets...
by Ben Maisano | Sep 17, 2026 | Blog, Resources, Tendo Marketplace
Health systems have spent decades optimizing for Medicare, Medicaid, and commercial contracts. The patient balance is now big enough to matter just as much — and it behaves nothing like the payers your revenue cycle was built for. Every health system finance leader...
by Ben Maisano | May 5, 2026 | Blog, Tendo Marketplace
As healthcare continues to shift beyond the hospital, ambulatory care is rapidly becoming the fastest-growing segment in the U.S. Ambulatory providers have a significant opportunity to engage in direct-to-employer bundled payment programs as a proven growth...
by Ben Maisano | Jan 15, 2026 | Blog, Resources
Ambulatory Care Is the New Healthcare Frontier The U.S. healthcare landscape is undergoing rapid change. What was once confined to hospitals is now happening in outpatient and ambulatory settings. Across the country, Ambulatory Surgery Centers (ASCs) are expanding to...
by Ben Maisano | Dec 17, 2025 | Blog, Resources
The future of healthcare in 2026 isn’t a slow, steady evolution—it’s a site-of-care, AI-fueled revolution against inefficiency. For health systems, payers, and patients, the old rules are dissolving, replaced by a new blueprint focused on the trinity of...
by Ben Maisano | Jun 16, 2025 | Blog, Resources
As healthcare costs rise and workforce needs grow more complex, U.S. employers have embraced a flood of health benefit “point solutions”—specialized vendors that offer targeted services for mental health, musculoskeletal care, chronic disease management, fertility,...
by Ben Maisano | Jan 15, 2025 | Blog, Resources
Price transparency in healthcare has come a long way since its initial rollout in 2019, evolving through significant milestones like the Hospital Price Transparency Rule, the No Surprises Act, and the Transparency in Coverage Rule. As we approach 2025, new...
by Ben Maisano | Jun 20, 2023 | Blog, Resources, Webinars
FEATURING Divya PathakVice Chair – Artificial Intelligence & Analytics, Mayo Clinic Bala Hota MDSVP, Chief Informatics Officer, Tendo, Formerly of RUSH HOSTED BY Ben MaisanoSVP, Head of Strategy, Tendo. Formerly of Atlantic Health & Mt. Sinai In...
by Ben Maisano | May 11, 2023 | Blog, Resources
In this article we examine the key elements necessary to determine if you are evaluating a solution that has merely added the platform buzzword to compensate for future ideas on the roadmap, or if the solution has an architecture designed to achieve agility,...
