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Referrals stall between the referring office and the scheduler. Calls get abandoned. A patient hits the phone tree, gives up, and books somewhere else. None of it registers in a report until the revenue is gone and the patient is…
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Most supply savings programs stop at the contract, and the opportunity that remains sits in clinical detail no spend report captures. Two physicians perform the same procedure and consume different supplies at different cost. Reimbursement does not match. Multiply that…
Sep 30, 2026 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM CDT
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- Allen Passerallo, Senior Vice President, Physician Preference, Vizient Inc.
- Ian O’Malley, Executive Director, Strategic Sourcing, University of Chicago Medicine
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