Gist Healthcare Podcast

Site-neutral payment is coming. How should health systems prepare?

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By J Carlisle Larsen
10 min readMar 2, 2026
Strategy partnerships and innovation

Gist Podcast

Site-neutral payment is shifting from policy debate to operational reality. With drug administration services now included in the Medicare 2026 final rule and additional changes potentially ahead, health systems face growing uncertainty around reimbursement, site-of-care strategy and margin impact.

In this two-part conversation, Gist Healthcare Podcast host J. Carlisle Larsen speaks with Joyjit Choudhury, Managing Director with Kaufman Hall in the firm’s Strategy and Business Transformation practice, about his recent blog piece examining site-neutral payments and how hospitals and health systems can build a plan amid uncertainty.

Author

J Carlisle Larsen

J. Carlisle Larsen

Vice President, Senior Producer

J. Carlisle Larsen, JC, is Vice President, Senior Producer for Kaufman Hall. Her responsibilities include breaking down healthcare business and policy news. Prior to joining Kaufman Hall, JC spent 10 years working in the Midwest WDET-FM (Detroit’s NPR Station) and Wisconsin Public Radio covering a wider range of topics, from social issues to healthcare politics. Her work has appeared on...