Fall 2025 Issue

By the Numbers
For The Record
Vol. 37 No. 4 P. 34

39%
Up to this percentage of out-of-network claims submitted to the federal independent dispute resolution process in 2024 were ineligible, according to a report by AHIP and the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association.

$200 Million
OpenEvidence, an AI-powered clinical decision support company that offers a medical search engine and a chatbot exclusively for doctors, raised this amount in series C funding.

26%
PwC’s 2025 US Healthcare Consumer Insights Survey found that only this percentage of consumers say it’s easy to access their medical records across providers or systems.

8
An American Medical Association survey found 22.5% of physicians spent more than this number of hours on the EHR outside normal work hours, 13.6% spent six to eight hours outside of work on the EHR, and 24.5% spent zero to two hours a week on work outside of work.

$1 Million
According to the American Telehealth Association, a large health system said that the burden of complying with the documentation requirements in the 2026 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule Final Rule would cost them this amount a year.

111
After deploying AI-driven medical imaging analysis and coordinated care technology from RapidAI, OSF Healthcare, an 18-hospital system headquartered in Peoria, Illinois, saw a 155% increase in stroke diagnoses and a 347% increase in mechanical thrombectomy procedures, enabling this many more patients to receive timely care while also resulting in an estimated $2.6 million in additional annual revenue.

51.4%
Ransomware attacks account for over 70% of successful cyberattacks on health care organizations in the past two years, according to a KnowBe4 report. The majority of cyberattacks (79% to 91%) are initiated by phishing and social engineering tactics, and employees in large health care organizations have a more than 50/50 chance (this percentage) of falling victim to phishing emails.

88%
According to a report from the Healthcare Financial Management Association and Eliciting Insights, this percentage of health systems are using AI internally, and 71% of survey respondents have deployed AI solutions in finance, revenue cycle management, or clinical functional areas. However, only 18% have a mature governance structure and fully formed AI strategy, though nearly 70% of CFO respondents said there was some governance structure.