Golden-based Colorado School of Mines abruptly closed its dental clinic as part of a broader 1% staff reduction, 9NEWS reported July 9. The clinic, which had operated since 1999 to provide dental services to students, was shut down June 3.…
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Principal Financial Group is set to acquire Beam Benefits, a provider of dental benefits that serves more than 25,000 small businesses. Beam Benefits generated about $175 million in premiums in 2025, offering dental, vision and ancillary benefits, according to a…
Health system pharmacy leaders invest heavily in training their teams. What that investment rarely reveals is whether those teams are ready to perform when a situation demands more than process knowledge. Traditional models were built to move people through a…
Aug 10, 2026 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM CDT
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- Michael Alexander, Co-Founder, Audirie
- Dr. Tina Moen, PharmD, Chief Pharmacy Officer, Colibri Healthcare
Most practice leaders believe denials are under control. New data tells a different story. In a survey of 360 independent practices, only 1 in 4 could pinpoint where revenue was leaking, and denials were climbing for nearly half. The reason…
Aug 13, 2026 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM CDT
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- Ian Maurer, VP, Veradigm
- Jana Fullbright, Director of Revenue Cycle, State of Franklin Healthcare
- Heather Richmond-Munyon, Vice President of Revenue Cycle, Southeast Primary Care Partners
At University Health in Kansas City, Cone Health, St. Luke’s Health System and Akron Children’s Hospital, decentralized specialty pharmacy was creating the same problems: medication access was slow, care was delayed, and prescriptions and patients were leaking out of the system…
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Phoenix-based SALT Dental Partners recently partnered with an orthodontic practice in North Carolina. MyOrthodontist has 14 locations throughout North Carolina, staffed by a team of 16 orthodontists. The DPO announced its partnership with the practice in a July 10 LinkedIn…
Picture the payer workflows that consume the most time: prior authorization, coverage determination, payer-to-payer exchange, denial appeals. Long-running, multi-party, regulated. Now picture autonomous agents handling that work, reliably and under full audit, across payer and provider systems. Almost no one…
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Healthcare and life sciences organizations are moving quickly to develop AI applications for diagnostics, genomics and digital health. But many teams face practical challenges as projects scale, including limited access to compute resources, cloud latency and data privacy requirements that…
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Nursing shortages, bedside turnover and rising labor costs are forcing health systems to do more with less. Labor now accounts for nearly 60 percent of the average hospital’s expenses and replacing a staff nurse costs roughly $60,000. Every hour clinicians…
Aug 7, 2026 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM CDT
Presenters:
- Kassaundra McKnight-Young, CNIO Healthcare Industry Principal, Zebra Technologies
- Gregory Carras, Regional Product Manager, Data Capture Solutions, Zebra Technologies
- Jennifer Gene, VP, Healthcare and Public Sector Sales, Levata
Chicago-based Aspen Dental opened a practice in Perry, Ga., as part of its mission to increase access to care in underserved communities. The office, which opened July 9, is led by Managing Clinical Director Godlive Athis, DDS. The practice offers…