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How to get featured in Fierce Healthcare

How to get featured in Fierce Healthcare: how its beat reporters cover providers, payers, and health tech, where news tips go, and its Industry Voices column.

Website
fiercehealthcare.com
Lead time
News: same day to a few days. Features and special reports: weeks. Industry Voices: varies.
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At a glance

Audience. Executives and managers at hospitals, health systems, payers, and health technology companies.

  • Providers and health systems
  • Payers and health insurance
  • Health tech
  • Digital health and AI
  • Health policy and regulation
  • Finance and dealmaking
Staff reporting
Beat reporters cover providers, payers, health tech, and policy, delivered through daily newsletters and the site, along with special reports such as the Fierce 15 and Fierce 50.
Contributed articles
Fierce Healthcare has run an Industry Voices column for outside thought leaders, with its own guidelines. Check the About Us page for the current submission route.
Opinion and op-eds
Industry Voices is the opinion route for executives and experts. It is edited and must offer a perspective, not a product pitch.
Press releases
The About Us page lists a news tip address. Releases are background for beat reporters rather than copy to republish.

Pitching Fierce Healthcare, step by step

  1. Identify the beat: providers, payers, health tech, or policy. Read that reporter's recent stories.

  2. Send news through the tip address on the About Us page or directly to the beat reporter.

  3. Lead with what changes for health systems or payers: financial impact, a contract, a regulatory implication, or adoption data.

  4. Offer a customer executive, such as a health system CFO or CIO, alongside your own spokesperson.

  5. For an Industry Voices column, follow the current guidelines and pitch a perspective tied to a live issue.

How Fierce Healthcare decides what to cover

Fierce Healthcare is a trade publication for the business of health care, delivered largely through daily newsletters. Its reporters work distinct beats: providers and health systems, payers and health insurance, health tech and digital health, and policy. It also runs special reports, including the Fierce 15 list of promising private health care companies and the Fierce 50.

News fits when it matters to the people running health systems and health plans. Financial results, deals, contracts, regulatory changes, workforce issues, and technology adoption with real numbers are the core. A vendor launch fits only if it changes how providers or payers operate.

How to pitch Fierce Healthcare

Start with the right beat. Provider, payer, and health tech coverage are handled by different reporters, so read recent bylines before you pitch. The About Us page lists a news tip address for general tips.

Lead with impact: dollars, patients, contracts, adoption, or regulation. A health tech company should bring a customer, ideally a health system or plan executive willing to talk about results. Data with a clear method helps.

Special reports have their own nomination processes. The Fierce 15, for example, opens nominations each year; the 2026 cycle was announced on the site.

Contributed articles and op-eds

Fierce Healthcare has run an Industry Voices column for outside thought leaders. Its editors have described it as a place for people with something to say about the industry, with published guidelines and a submission contact. We could not load the current guidelines directly, so check the About Us page and recent Industry Voices pieces for the current route and editor before submitting.

Industry Voices pieces work when they take a clear position on an issue health care executives are wrestling with, such as reimbursement, staffing, or AI governance. Promotional pieces about your own product are unlikely to run.

Frequently asked questions

Does Fierce Healthcare accept guest posts?

It has run an Industry Voices column for outside contributors with its own guidelines. Confirm the current submission route on its About Us page.

Editorial coverage is not for sale. Sponsored content and marketing programs are run separately from the newsroom.

Who should I pitch at Fierce Healthcare?

The reporter on your beat: providers, payers, health tech, or policy. Check current bylines, since staff and assignments change.

Fierce Healthcare coverage tends to follow customer outcomes and hard numbers. Building those proof points and preparing customer spokespeople is how a PR-led agency approaches media relations for health care companies.

Mistakes that get pitches ignored

  • Product announcements with no customer, data, or impact on providers or payers.
  • Industry Voices pitches that promote your own product.
  • Pitching the wrong beat. Provider, payer, and health tech reporters are distinct.
  • Relying on old editor names. Check current bylines before you pitch.
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