Austin Littrell
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Austin Littrell is associate editor of Medical Economics.
Articles by Austin Littrell
WalletHub ranked all 50 states and Washington, D.C., on children’s health.
Shannon Sumner says fraud enforcement has never been more data-driven.
MGMA's Anders Gilberg joins the show to break down the group's new regulatory burden report.
Elation Health’s inaugural Primary Care Pulse report finds independent primary care physicians are adopting new payment models, embracing AI and holding onto their patient relationships despite mounting financial pressure.
A new Mass General Brigham study tested 21 large language models on the full clinical workflow and found a striking gap between the AI's ability to reach a final diagnosis and its ability to reason through one.
Medicare Advantage accounts for three of the top five administrative burdens facing medical groups, and nearly 95% of practices say the regulatory load has grown over the past three years, according to MGMA's 2026 Regulatory Burden Report.
Health care attorney Dan Silverboard, J.D., breaks down the legal risks physicians and practices face when using AI.
Sightview Software's Holly Black explains the 2026 rule changes, why small practices still have time to act and how a few hours a month can be the difference between a bonus and a penalty.
Access has overtaken staffing as health care's defining challenge, and physicians who don't embrace AI and team-based care risk falling behind.
An emergency medicine resident with a valid work permit was taken into custody at an airport days after a family physician was detained at a nearby Border Patrol checkpoint.
Rep. Greg Landsman (D-Ohio) explains why he wants to ban the WISeR model, and why AI should be used to fix prior authorization, not make it worse.
A new KFF tracking poll shows AI use rivaling social media as a source of health information, particularly among younger and uninsured patients.
Skillsoft's Asha Palmer, J.D., on why clinicians keep reaching for unsanctioned AI, what risks practices are actually underestimating and how to build governance that sticks.
ArentFox Schiff's Pat Naples, J.D., breaks down the legal basis behind CMS's latest antifraud push and what physician practices need to do before investigators come knocking.
Physicians who signed on during implementation and never revisited their plan may be paying for tools they've never opened.
WalletHub's analysis of 182 cities across 41 health indicators finds the West Coast and Mountain West on top.
Bates says medicine needs a "quarterback" model for patients with multiple chronic conditions; Sims says without solving access first, no other strategy holds.
Aeroflow Health CEO Casey Hite explains how tariffs forced his company to innovate faster, and why the rest of the health care industry should take the same approach.
Health care accounted for 84% of total recoveries.
Better quality focus and policy pressure are driving down safety events, even as the patients left in hospitals grow more complex.
The top news stories in medicine this week.
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