Healthcare Growth Journal https://healthcaregrowthjournal.com/ 2026-11-13T12:00:00Z Ali Peivandizadeh Trace your last 300 inquiries to kept visitshttps://healthcaregrowthjournal.com/marketing/trace-your-last-300-inquiries-to-kept-visits/2026-11-13T12:00:00ZBefore you spend more on ads, follow your last 300 inquiries to the end. Count how many became a visit that was booked and kept. Sort a new patient's outside records with AIhttps://healthcaregrowthjournal.com/ai-at-work/sort-a-new-patients-outside-records-with-ai/2026-11-13T12:00:00ZNorthern Trust reports that an AI agent cut the time to prepare a new client's records by 83%. A practice can use the same pattern on the outside records a new patient brings. Score how AI assistants rank your practicehttps://healthcaregrowthjournal.com/marketing/score-how-ai-assistants-rank-your-practice/2026-11-13T12:00:00ZA car dealer scored all 349 stores of his brand on how AI assistants answer about them. A practice can score itself and five others in its city by hand. Ransomware group claims attack on Delta Dental of Missourihttps://healthcaregrowthjournal.com/news/ransomware-group-claims-delta-dental-of-missouri/2026-11-13T12:00:00ZA ransomware group says it took member data from Delta Dental of Missouri. The breach is not confirmed, and the insurer says it is investigating. Medicare sets a lower physician payment rate for next yearhttps://healthcaregrowthjournal.com/news/medicare-2027-physician-payment-rate-is-lower/2026-11-13T12:00:00ZMedicare's final rule for 2027 cuts the payment rate for most physicians by 2.31% from Jan 1, 2027. It also pays less for some same-day visits and procedures. Medicare outpatient rule: 2.3% more, wider site-neutral payhttps://healthcaregrowthjournal.com/news/medicare-2027-outpatient-rule-site-neutral-imaging/2026-11-13T12:00:00ZMedicare's final outpatient rule for 2027 raises hospital outpatient rates 2.3% and pays less for imaging at certain off-campus hospital departments. Marketplace premiums rise 13% as open enrollment startshttps://healthcaregrowthjournal.com/news/marketplace-premiums-rise-13-percent-open-enrollment/2026-11-13T12:00:00ZOpen enrollment for 2027 marketplace coverage began on Nov 1, 2026. Benchmark premiums are up 13% on average, and enrollment is projected to fall. HHS eases enforcement on compounding six peptideshttps://healthcaregrowthjournal.com/news/hhs-eases-enforcement-on-compounding-six-peptides/2026-11-13T12:00:00ZHHS said it does not intend to act against licensed pharmacies and physicians that compound six named peptides under set conditions. State board rules and advertising rules did not change. Google's update: record booked and kept visits firsthttps://healthcaregrowthjournal.com/marketing/google-core-update-record-booked-and-kept-visits/2026-11-13T12:00:00ZGoogle started a core update and added a new AI model to Search. Record your new patient calls and your booked and kept visits now, and compare them when the rollout ends. Count how often each provider uses the AI note toolhttps://healthcaregrowthjournal.com/ai-at-work/count-how-often-each-provider-uses-the-ai-note-tool/2026-11-13T12:00:00ZA study in JAMA found that AI note tools saved about 16 minutes of documentation a day, and three times more for clinicians who used them in most visits. Measure your own use. Check if your practice can claim its ChatGPT profilehttps://healthcaregrowthjournal.com/marketing/claim-your-practice-chatgpt-profile/2026-11-13T12:00:00ZOpenAI opened a free tool for claiming a business profile in ChatGPT. Search for your practice this week, and claim the profile with an account you control. Check if staff built AI apps that hold patient datahttps://healthcaregrowthjournal.com/ai-at-work/check-staff-built-ai-apps-with-patient-data/2026-11-13T12:00:00ZA security firm found 35,578 apps made with one AI app builder open to anyone with the link. One held a hospital staff list. Check this week what your staff built. Check ads against your board's rules with AIhttps://healthcaregrowthjournal.com/ai-at-work/check-ads-against-your-boards-rules-with-ai/2026-11-13T12:00:00ZThe legal team at Fujifilm Biotechnologies built an AI agent that checks contracts against written standards. A practice can use the same method on ads and social media posts. Answer every review, and never confirm a patienthttps://healthcaregrowthjournal.com/marketing/answer-every-review-and-never-confirm-a-patient/2026-11-13T12:00:00ZIn one survey, 66% of patients said a provider's reply to reviews affects their trust. Reply to every review with wording that never confirms the writer is a patient. Answer after-hours booking requests with an AI agenthttps://healthcaregrowthjournal.com/ai-at-work/answer-after-hours-booking-requests-with-an-ai-agent/2026-11-13T12:00:00ZSaaStr put an AI agent on the page where buyers decide and reports about 600 booked meetings in 12 months. A practice can do the same for requests that arrive after closing.