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HTB:: When the Bottom Falls Out


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Headline 1: CMS 2027 Medicare Advantage Rate Shock Triggers $80B Market Wipeout—The Golden Era is Over CMS proposed just 0.09% rate increase for 2027 MA plans versus expected 4-6%, includes aggressive 1.53% cut from eliminating chart-review-only diagnoses, sending CVS, Elevance, and UnitedHealth stocks into freefall on January 27 and forcing health systems to rethink their entire MA strategy.

Headline 2: Coalition for Secure AI Releases Security Framework for Model Context Protocol—AI's New Attack Surface Just Got Real Google, Amazon, Microsoft, OpenAI, and NVIDIA's security coalition released an MCP security taxonomy on January 27 as vulnerabilities multiply, MCP servers get exposed in production, and healthcare organizations realize they're deploying AI agents without the governance to contain them.

Headline 3: Commure Raises $200M as Autonomous AI Delivers Real Revenue Cycle Results—The Pilot Era is Over While everyone's still talking about AI potential, Commure's autonomous coding is delivering 83% reduction in clinician time at scale across HCA Healthcare and Ob Hospitalist Group, with RCM customers seeing 20% revenue lift—proof that AI agents work when you actually deploy them right.

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