Post by In Women's Health

Yesterday we kicked off the inaugural IWH Reimbursement Summit — and there are still two sessions to go (June 3 & 5). Reimbursement shapes nearly everything in women's health: which procedures get scheduled, which products get built, which companies can scale, and what clinicians actually get paid to do. Most of it traces back to how money moves through a system that very few people fully understand. Take one example. A prostate biopsy and an endometrial biopsy are analogous procedures — one pays 3x the other. That's not an isolated quirk; it's a window into how reimbursement gets decided, where the gaps come from, and why they persist. Patterns like this show up across the field, and they all come back to the same underlying mechanics. That's the real point. Most people in women's health have an opinion about the reimbursement gap. Very few can explain how the system actually works — and that's the difference between advocacy and leverage. It's exactly what we're building across three working sessions: real frameworks, no panels, takeaways you can act on Monday morning. 📅 Sessions 2 + 3 — June 3 + 5 · 12:30–2pm EST · Virtual 🔗 Registration link in comments IWH members and course alumni: use your community code. #Reimbursement #WomensHealth