What to Expect in Healthcare for 2026 | Clete Madden and the JTaylor Podcast Crew

Welcome to Claims Denied, a new podcast from Hospitalogy. In this episode, Blake discusses the year in review and what to expect next with Clete Madden (yes, that’s Blake’s dad!) and the JTaylor Podcast Crew, including Herd Midkiff, Kyle Kirkpatrick, and Anna Brewer. If it feels like healthcare keeps “solving” the same problems with shinier tools, this conversation gets right to the why. The group breaks down what’s actually changing (AI adoption getting real, consumer expectations rising, the deal market re-accelerating), and what’s about to get messier (Medicaid/ACA changes, 340B economics, Medicare Advantage’s growing gravitational pull). It’s part year-end reckoning, part 2026 forecast, with a few spicy detours on GLP-1s, cash-pay “parallel” systems, and who really controls innovation: the people or the payors. --- Tom™ is the agentic AI that delivers orchestrated Primary Care as a Service, expanding care capacity and patient engagement while reducing clinicians’ busy workloads. Tom serves as the AI member of a patient’s primary care team . Learn more at ⁠⁠Lumeris.com/platform ⁠ --- Subscribe to the JTaylor Healthcare Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-jtaylor-healthcare-podcast/id1577266916 Follow Blake on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/blakecmadden/ For expert analysis on healthcare M&A, strategy, finance, and markets, join 51K+ readers of Blake Madden’s Hospitalogy newsletter. Subscribe here: https://hospitalogy.com/ Like our episodes? Be sure to leave us a review, and share our podcast with colleagues.