Rising labor costs and workforce shortages are squeezing DSOs’ growth plans — but three executives say the fix isn’t more hiring or acquisitions. It’s building a team that actually wants to stay. Three DSO executives recently spoke with Becker’s to…
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Most revenue cycle teams are not underperforming because people are not trying. They are underperforming because the work is scattered. Every added vendor creates another handoff. Every handoff creates a place where accountability goes soft and a claim can sit.…
Sep 24, 2026 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM CDT
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- Alicia Johnson, Associate VP of Revenue Cycle, Lake Regional Health System
- Nicole Rogas, President, RevSpring
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Dental implant and orthodontics company Straumann Group has named Christopher Norbye as its next CEO, effective Dec. 1. Mr. Norbye has more than two decades of international leadership experience and most recently served as CEO of Beijer Ref, a global…
Cardiac imaging, monitoring and specialist follow-up volumes keep climbing, and cardiovascular disease remains the leading cause of death worldwide. The response in most health systems has been to add AI department by department — automated echo quantification in one place,…
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Henderson, Nev.-based PDS Health is among the first healthcare organizations to deploy PolyAI’s new direct integration with Epic. PolyAI, an AI dialog platform, said the direct connection to Epic eliminates middleware, reducing latency and allowing faster, more natural-sounding patient conversations.…
Private equity companies continue to face mounting economic and regulatory challenges impacting the healthcare sector, according to Pitchbook’s second quarter “Healthcare Services Report.” Five notes from the report, released Aug. 14: 1. Healthcare service deal count was down 18.5% year…
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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Presenters:
- Allen Passerallo, Senior Vice President, Physician Preference, Vizient Inc.
- Ian O’Malley, Executive Director, Strategic Sourcing, University of Chicago Medicine