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An increasing share of healthcare payment now carries downside risk, and CMS has signaled more to come: greater provider-held risk, more mandatory models and quality reporting with real financial consequences. But the pressure isn’t confined to value-based care. The same…

Oct 28, 2026 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM CDT

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Presenters:
  • Anthony Spano, Executive Director, Value-Based Care, athenahealth
  • Poonam Desai, Vice President Regional Ambulatory Operations and Clinic Integration, UChicago Medicine
  • Dani Chickerella, MSM, RD, Chief of Clinical Strategy & System Delivery, University Hospitals
  • Gene Quinn, MD, MPH, CEO, Envoy Integrated Health; Non-Invasive Cardiologist, Alaska Heart and Vascular Institute
  • Nicole Bradberry, Chief Executive Officer; ValueH Network, Florida Association of ACOs, Texas Association of ACOs

Health systems are under pressure to code more accurately, accelerate the revenue cycle and do more with the coding staff they have. Point automation helped — but adding a separate tool for each coding type doesn’t scale. Autonomous coding has…

Oct 27, 2026 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM CDT

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  • MeChelle Walker, BSHA, Global product owner, outpatient autonomous coding, Solventum
  • Rebecca Caux, BFA, CPC, Global product owner, professional autonomous coding, Solventum
  • Shawn Wells, RHIT, CHDA, Global product owner, inpatient autonomous coding, Solventum

For multi-location dental groups, the month-end close is too often a manual, high-stress scramble — and the more locations and entities you add, the harder it gets. But the close is more than a back-office chore. How quickly and cleanly…

Sep 28, 2026 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM CDT

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Presenters:
  • Dawn Johanknecht, CPA, CFO, Szmanda Dental Center SC
  • Angie Hopper, MAcc, COO, Premier Dental Center
  • Peter Rivoli, Managing Partner; Owner, Founder and Orthodontist, High Rye Dental. Rivoli Dental
  • Sherry Hassler, COO & EOS Integrator, Today’s Dental
  • Melissa O'Dowd, Director, Growth – Healthcare & Nonprofit Verticals, Sage

The healthcare AI roadmap: From modern operations to agentic work Generative AI can already draft and summarize. The next step — agentic AI that carries out multistep work on its own — is reshaping how healthcare runs finance, HR, supply…

Nov 6, 2026 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM CST

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  • Marilyn Aardal, Product Manager, Senior Development, Infor
  • Max Fisher, Director, Product Management Development, Infor

Most health systems treat physician compensation as an administrative function but a handful of systems are proving that assumption wrong. At MaineHealth, Dayton Children’s Hospital and Cayuga Health, trusted compensation and performance information is changing how physicians, compensation teams, operational…

Oct 28, 2026 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM CDT

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Presenters:
  • Jeffrey Penoyer – MHA, Chief Operating Officer of Cayuga Health & Deputy COO, Centralus Health
  • Derek Theodor, Executive Director, Provider Enterprise & Primary Care, Dayton Children’s Hospital
  • Michele Mays, Provider Compensation Manager, MaineHealth
  • Brett Pinnix, Vice President of Account Management, Simpliphy
  • Chris Carson, Senior Advisor, Simpliphy

AI is actively reshaping the dental market, opening new ways to rethink how revenue cycle work is structured and delivered. But technology alone does not guarantee stronger RCM performance. The greater opportunity for DSOs and dental groups is to pair…

Sep 30, 2026 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM CDT

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  • Raju Siva, Chief AI Officer, Medusind
  • Adam FitzGerald, SVP, Dental & Strategic Initiatives, Medusind

Nearly every vendor serving health plans now claims to offer artificial intelligence for clinical review. Far fewer can show how their tools reason or whether clinicians can trust and validate what the AI produces. For utilization management teams, that gap…

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Healthcare security teams already collect signals from across their systems. The challenge is connecting thousands of alerts quickly enough to act. That urgency is growing. The average healthcare data breach costs $7.42 million, according to IBM, while attackers are using…

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