🔥 Jobs in Women's Health March 2, 2026

Reimbursement is the language of healthcare, and most women’s health professionals were never taught how to speak it. Together we learn how reimbursement incentives determine which services survive — and which never scale.

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Jodi Neuhauser
March 02, 2026

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  • The Hidden Economics of Women’s Health- Why reimbursement — not innovation — determines what care exists, scales, or disappears.

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The Hidden Economics of Women's Health: Why Understanding the Money Flow Changes Everything

The system isn't broken -- it's working exactly as designed. And that's exactly why we need to understand it.

A few days ago I was at the Milken Institute Women's Health Network Reimbursement Working Group meeting. There were 40+ of us around a table from all aspects of women's health -- CVS, CMS, FDA, Evernorth, policy leaders, physicians, hospital system executives, startup founders, and more.

It was the second time in two years that those who care about women's health reimbursement have come together at a table to try to figure out how we move forward. It was a closed-door session, so I can't report much. But one of the most important things I walked away with is that even those who work in women's health reimbursement every day struggle to understand the nuances of reimbursement in our ecosystem.

Yet this is the conversation happening in every women's health boardroom, investor pitch, and product strategy meeting -- and most people aren't equipped to participate in it. Not because they aren't smart or committed or deeply knowledgeable in their domain. But because they've never been taught how the money actually moves and where the levers are.

In women's health, reimbursement literacy is executive literacy. The professionals who understand how money moves are the ones shaping strategy, influencing capital, and making decisions that determine what care scales and what quietly disappears.

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Reimbursement is the invisible architecture shaping every success and every struggle in women's health. And in 2026, that architecture is revealing itself more clearly and more urgently than ever.

CMS's -2.5% "efficiency adjustment" is cutting reimbursement for 37% of OB-GYNs. Over a hundred surgical codes involving women's bodies are reimbursed an average of 30% less than equivalent procedures on male anatomy. A basic biopsy on a vagina reimburses 45% less than one on a penis. And more than fifty women's health conditions still lack CPT codes entirely.

These aren't frustrations. They are signals that the incentive structure is misaligned at its core.

I'm committed to making sure that as many people as possible understand how reimbursement works in women's health and what we have to do to fix it. That's the work we've been building through our own 51& Women's Health Reimbursement Summit -- where 67 C-level executives mapped the structural barriers and built tactical recommendations and through the ongoing work of the Milken Women's Health Network.

Later this week, I'm hosting a free Reimbursement 101 session. I'm going to break this system down in a way that makes it digestible and highlights some of the work being done to move things forward.

Before we dive deeper in the live session, here are the five structural realities shaping every women's health business whether you see them or not.

The Five Reimbursement Forces Shaping Women's Health

1. Payers live inside a fixed bucket of money

Every payer receives a set amount per member to provide coverage. Their financial success comes from spending less than that bucket. Every coverage decision -- no matter how clinically compelling -- is filtered through this simple, rigid reality. If your solution doesn't demonstrate savings within the plan's time horizon, coverage becomes an uphill climb.

2. If a service doesn't have a CPT code, it barely exists in the system

A CPT code is the mechanism through which care becomes billable. Without one, a service becomes structurally invisible. This is why so many essential women's health needs -- from vulvodynia treatment to comprehensive perimenopause management -- struggle to scale. The billing system literally has no place for them. Right now, in over 50 areas of women's health, doctors are piecing codes together in ways they aren't designed for in order to get paid for care they're already providing to women.

3. The RUC quietly determines the value of women's health services

The AMA's Relative Value Scale Update Committee recommends reimbursement rates for every service, and CMS accepts those recommendations more than 90% of the time. The problem? The committee is dominated by procedural specialties, not OB-GYN or women's health. When the representation is imbalanced, the valuation becomes imbalanced -- and women's health pays the price. This model also influences compensation, and the budget-neutrality rule set by Congress provides little incentive for other specialties to give up RVUs in order to share them with women's health services.

4. Fertility and menopause aren't excluded by accident -- they're excluded by design

Payers reward interventions that deliver ROI within a single plan year. Fertility treatments have high upfront costs and long-term benefits. Menopause care prevents chronic conditions that often materialize under a different payer entirely. The system deprioritizes them not because they aren't important, but because the payment logic doesn't accommodate them. This is one of the major challenges of our employer-based system.

5. Policy wins create real opportunity -- but only if you understand how to operationalize them

Forty-six states have expanded postpartum Medicaid coverage to twelve months. That can mean $1 million to $4 million in new annual revenue for a practice. But realizing that opportunity requires mastery of coding specifics, eligibility rules, and the notoriously high denial rates that accompany new mandated benefits. Policy creates potential. Reimbursement knowledge determines who captures it.

What This Means for You

These five realities sit underneath every strategic decision in women's health. If you work in this space, reimbursement fluency allows you to evaluate whether a product is viable before it launches, identify where policy creates real revenue opportunity, understand why some solutions struggle despite strong clinical data, and speak the language of investors, payers, and executive leadership.

In this industry, that fluency is what separates contributors from decision-makers.

This Week: Reimbursement in Women's Health (Free)

We're at a moment in women's health where the policy environment is shifting, payer incentives are evolving, and major changes in Medicaid, Medicare, and employer coverage are unfolding simultaneously. In times of transition, understanding the system becomes even more valuable.

In the live session this Thursday, you'll leave with a clear framework to evaluate reimbursement risk in any women's health model and the confidence to engage in these conversations at the executive level.

The live session will give you the introduction. The Women’s Health Mini-MBA starting March 10 will give you the full picture -- reimbursement plus five other forces shaping every business, career, and investment decision in women's health.

Reimbursement is one week of the program. But it's the week that unlocks everything else because once you understand how the financial architecture works, the ecosystem, the business models, the regulatory landscape, and the go-to-market challenges all start to make sense.

One of the most consistent things we hear from alumni is that this is the shift:

"The real-world examples helped enormously with understanding tricky components like reimbursement and payer dynamics. This programme expanded my understanding, refined my positioning, and opened new doors -- including a job offer in women's health." -- Amy Keenan

"The comprehensive introduction I didn't know I needed. I left feeling informed, enraged, and empowered." -- Lisa Paruch

"The depth and quality of the material blew me away... I finally understood the business realities that shape women's health beyond the lab." -- Kavya Reddy

300+ alumni. 6 weeks. 12 live sessions. Alumni work at companies like Maven, Oura, Kindbody, Amazon One Medical, Natural Cycles, ASTHO, and dozens more.

21 of 40 seats are taken. Cohort starts March 10. $1,396 -- installment payments available. 100% money-back guarantee.

📆 Upcoming In Women’s Health Events

Thursday, March 5th at 2:00pm ET

Reimbursement in Women's Health · Luma

Women’s Health Reimbursement 101 Hosted by In Women’s Health Healthcare is driven by two critical forces in women’s health: Research and Reimbursement. While…

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Friday, March 20th at 11:30pm ET

March Office Hours: IWH Members Only · Zoom · Luma

Join the In Women's Health member community and Founder Jodi Neuhauser for members-only office hours. Discuss recent interviews, get resume feedback, and ask…

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Thursday, March 26th at 3:00pm ET

Why Fertility Patients Become Experts by Necessity · Luma

Why Fertility Patients Become Experts by Necessity A conversation with Lauren Berson, CEO & Founder of Conceive When a woman begins trying to conceive, she…

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Friday, March 27th at 2:00pm ET

IWH: March Monthly Women's Health Career Networking · Zoom · Luma

Come meet others currently creating or accelerating their career in women's health. Spend time getting to know others in our industry, hear the latest industry…

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Lauren Makler is the Co-Founder and CEO of Cofertility, a human-first fertility ecosystem reimagining egg freezing and egg donation. Previously, she founded Uber Health, helping millions of patients access care through transportation. Shaped by her own fertility journey, Lauren is passionate about expanding reproductive choice and access.

Cofertility is a Series A startup focused on the fast-growing field of fertility and family planning. They are human-first fertility ecosystem rewriting the egg freezing and egg donation experience. Through Cofertility Freeze, women can freeze their eggs for free when they donate half of the retrieved eggs to a family who can’t otherwise conceive. Cofertility Family serves as a more transparent, ethical egg donor matching platform.

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Taniqua Miller is a passionate OB/GYN dedicated to providing comprehensive women's healthcare with a focus on empowerment and education. With a wealth of experience in obstetrics, gynecology, and reproductive health, she is committed to ensuring the well-being of my patients at every stage of life.

Revival Women’s Health is a midlife-focused women’s health practice proudly rooted in Decatur, serving women across metro Atlanta who are ready for a more thoughtful, personal approach to care. Revival offers comprehensive gynecologic and menopause care designed for women navigating perimenopause, menopause, and the messy middle of midlife.

Dmitry Gurski is the Co-Founder and CEO of Flo Health. He co-founded the company in 2015 alongside his brother and others, turning it into a leading AI-driven women's health app with over 70 million monthly active users and a unicorn valuation exceeding $1 billion.

With over 100+ medical experts, Flo is committed to supporting women at every stage of their health journey, from menstruation to conception, pregnancy, and menopause. They provide curated cycle and ovulation tracking, tailored health insights, daily bite-sized visual content, and a private community for users to share their questions and concerns.

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