Dental practices are navigating persistent margin pressure from rising overhead costs, PPO fee compression and tight labor markets. Cost-cutting alone rarely moves the needle. According to dental leaders, the squeeze on margins is no longer temporary. Dental equipment and supply…
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Dallas-based MB2 Dental recently acquired Hawaii Pacific Dental Group in Honolulu. Hawaii Pacific Dental Group, located in the Hawaii Kai neighborhood of Honolulu, provides general, cosmetic and restorative dentistry for patients of all ages and includes an on-site dental lab…
A former credit supervisor at a Melville, N.Y.-based healthcare products distributor has been sentenced to 30 months in federal prison for embezzling $1.6 million from the company over four years. Tony Ream, 35, of Greenville, S.C., was sentenced Sept. 24…
Health systems face rising case complexity, thin specialty coverage and operating margins too tight to absorb preventable revenue loss. Denials and misclassified patient status quietly drain dollars that smaller systems can least afford to lose. A nonprofit health system serving…
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Physicians in value-based contracts are doing two jobs at once: delivering care and proving it. Risk adjustment, quality reporting and payer-specific documentation all land on the same clinicians already spending 5.3 hours in the EHR for every eight hours of…
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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
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.…
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:
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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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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