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How BCBS South Carolina is building the business case for addressing social risk

For most health plans, social risk lives inside care management, disconnected from strategy and the balance sheet. The result is avoidable utilization no one has quantified and spending no one has traced to a cause. As medical costs climb and…

Oct 29, 2026 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM CDT

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April Richardson, MD, VP Clinical Services, BCBS South Carolina
Trenor Williams, MD, Chief Executive Officer, Socially Determined
James Beem, Senior Partner, Mathematica
David Wolf, SVP, Commercial Product, MedeAnalytics

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Indiana dental practice provides notice of data security incident

Bright Smile Dental Care, a dental practice in Fishers, Ind., has provided notice of a potential data security incident. On Aug. 3, the practice discovered ransomware on its server that affected its practice management, patient record and dental imaging software.…

ADA publishes 1st living guideline on oral cancer detection: 6 notes

The American Dental Association has published the final recommendations of its first living guideline on the early detection of oral cancer and potentially malignant oral disorders. Six notes:

What happens to payer data after the file shows up

Getting a payer file is easy. Trusting it is not. In a late-2025 survey of 56 hospital and health system C-suite leaders, 87% said claims data matters to value-based care. Only 35% were confident it was accurate. Just 11% called…

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Rethinking ambulatory testing: How 3 systems built new revenue streams

When a health system sells its ambulatory laboratory operations, it collects a one-time payment and gives up the recurring revenue that testing would have earned for years. Many leaders underestimate how profitable ambulatory testing is, then watch the lost margin…

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The Agentic Health System

Your health system already earned the revenue, and now it’s sitting in a fax queue, in a denial nobody had time to appeal, and in an authorization that’s been pending for three weeks. See how health systems are clearing those…

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Inside Naples Comprehensive Health’s first 4 months with a workforce solutions partner

Naples Comprehensive Health was managing roughly 40 travel nurses across four staffing agencies, each with its own systems, rate structures and communication processes. Recruiters contacted every agency individually, forwarded resumes, coordinated interviews, tracked compliance documents and reconciled invoices from multiple…

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Minnesota Board of Dentistry suffers data breach

The Minnesota Board of Dentistry has provided notice of a data breach that impacted private licensee data, according to a Sept. 22 note from the Minnesota Dental Association. On March 13, 2026, Ashley Johnson, DMD, president of the dental board,…

5 states with the most DSO activity in Q3

Florida, South Carolina and Texas are among the states that saw the most DSO activity during the third quarter of 2026. Becker’s compiled a list of more than 70 DSO affiliations, openings and acquisitions during the third quarter. Here is…

What dentists need to know about the CDC's updated infection control guidance

The CDC updated its “Infection Control in Healthcare Personnel” guidance, adding a new section that consolidates how healthcare workers should be managed when they’re exposed to or sick with respiratory viruses. While the updated guidelines do not directly apply to…