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 Shannon Wiggins | Oct 5, 2026 | Blog, Quality, Resources, Tendo Spotlight
CMS has suppressed the national compare values and confidence intervals for 18 mortality, readmission, and complication measures on Care Compare, and those comparisons will stay unavailable until the July 2027 public reporting release. CMS says individual hospital...
by Tendo | Sep 30, 2026 | Blog, Resources, Tendo Marketplace, Tendo Spotlight, Webinars
Direct contracting between health systems and employers has been structurally difficult for years — not because either side didn’t want it, but because the transaction infrastructure to support it at scale didn’t exist. A new Tendo Marketplace webinar...
by Charlotte Lawrence | Sep 29, 2026 | Blog, Events, Quality, Resources
Revenue cycle technology no longer earns a health system’s confidence through strategic vision alone. At the Becker’s Health IT + RCM Conference, health system leaders made clear that measurable ROI, not potential, is now the price of entry for any new...
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 Eric Makovsky | Sep 8, 2026 | Blog, Resources, Tendo Marketplace
Direct-to-employer (D2E) contracting has moved from experiment to imperative. Self-insured employers are actively steering employees toward Centers of Excellence and bundled-price specialty care, and the health systems that show up in those networks are the ones...
by Eric Makovsky | Aug 18, 2026 | Blog, Resources, Tendo Marketplace
Most health system executives think of point-of-sale (POS) collection as a billing office fix — a way to shave a little off bad debt. The national numbers say otherwise. POS collections climbed from 22.74% of total patient payments in Q1 2025 to 24.82% in Q1 2026 — a...
by Beth Godsey | Aug 4, 2026 | Blog, Quality, Resources, US News and World Report Rankings 2026
A hidden opportunity inside your CDI program CDI programs are good at what they were built to do: make sure documentation reflects patient acuity accurately to support billing and reimbursement. That work is valuable, it’s demanding, and most programs do it...
by Beth Godsey | Jul 15, 2026 | Blog, Resources
Every year, it happens the same way. Rankings publish. Someone refreshes the page. A Slack message goes out, and then the calls start. From the CEO. From the board chair. From the CMO. Why did our Star rating drop? Why is U.S. News showing this? Why are we a 3-Star...
by Tendo | Jun 23, 2026 | Blog, News, Press Releases, Resources, Tendo Marketplace
Partnership combines Medefy’s industry-leading member engagement with Tendo’s direct-contract marketplace to deliver a smarter benefits experience at scale. Philadelphia, PA – June 23, 2026 – Tendo, a healthcare technology company powering direct-contract...
