HTB::The Healthcare Return Desk

Headline 1: 40+ Health Systems Drop Medicare Advantage Contracts for 2026
The MA growth story runs into its first real return line, as hospitals decide they would rather walk away than keep eating losses and fighting denials while seniors try to hang on to the doctors they trust.

Headline 2: Harvard Study Finds GLP-1s Have Little Impact on Obesity-Related Cancer Risk
The cancer halo around GLP-1s gets a reality check, nudging leaders to treat these drugs as powerful tools for weight and metabolic disease, not a shortcut around building a real prevention strategy.

Headline 3: AI Adoption Surges but 95 Percent of Projects Fail on Workflow
MIT’s ninety five percent failure stat meets a growing set of real wins, highlighting that the difference is not the model you bought but whether you walk a simple set of STEPS that give clinicians time back instead of homework.