Provider retention pressure and patient access now compete for the same R&D capacity.
Clinician economics protect network participation, while patient booking access protects the promise that coverage leads to care.
Who you’d be doing this for
“I found people who take my insurance, then learned their next opening was weeks away.”
Yohannes Rwigamba · Therapy-Seeking Patient
An insured patient looking for a first covered therapy appointment through the marketplace.
What is at stake
Clinician participation pressure and patient access needs are landing in separate planning conversations. You have to weigh a lightweight decision mechanism against the risk of carrying conflicting priorities into the quarter.
Why it isn’t already fixed
Every obvious fix costs something else. That’s the part you’d have to decide.
- provider retention vs patient access
- planning speed vs evidence quality
- roadmap focus vs cross-functional visibility
- lightweight cadence vs durable accountability
Why Headway
The marketplace depends on independent clinicians continuing to offer bookable, insurance-covered outpatient care.
Written with these in mind
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This is the setup. The work is inside.
Running it puts you in the room: the full situation and its constraints, stakeholders who push back in their own words, and the decisions that are yours to make. What you produce becomes a Day One Plan — work you can show someone instead of describing.