In a compressing dental practice acquisition market, the best exit strategy might be to stop planning for one, according to one dentist. With the conventional playbook not working the same way it did in the past, Sibera Brannon, DDS, owner…
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Every patient recovering in an inpatient bed who could safely recover at home is a patient in the wrong setting. Meanwhile, a patient in need of acute care waits for a bed. Arlington, Va.-based VHC Health addressed this challenge by…
Oct 7, 2026 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM CDT
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- James Meenan, FACHE, CCM, Associate Vice President of Population Health, VHC Health
- Russell Graney, Founder, Aidin (a part of LeanTaaS)
More than 1 million people in the U.S. are living with diagnosed HIV, yet prevention still sits largely in specialty settings. CDC survey data shows how often testing and pre-exposure prophylaxis conversations are missed even when patients do reach care.…
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Most health system continuity plans were built for a different disaster — severe weather, mass-casualty events, scheduled maintenance. Those are forecastable or finite. A cyber event is neither. It arrives without warning, often starts at a vendor you can’t see,…
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Value-based care has entered the mainstream. The latest national measurement from AHIP found that nearly 45% of U.S. healthcare payments flowed through models holding providers accountable for quality and cost in 2024—nearly twice the share reported a decade earlier. Yet…
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By the time MLR pressure shows up in your numbers, the margin may already be locked into the quarter. The question is whether you’ll spot the signals early enough to change the outcome. Most health plans don’t recognize margin pressure…
Oct 9, 2026 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM CDT
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- Stewart Hinrichsen, Senior Director, Value-Based Strategy, Martin's Point
- Raj Lakhanpal, Chief Executive Officer, SpectraMedix
- Sean Kelly, Senior Vice President, Growth and Business Development, SpectraMedix
- Charles Chervitz, Consultant, SpectraMedix
The adult orthodontic market has seen a boom in growth over the last few years, largely driven by shifts in patient needs and advancements in technology. Scott Law, DMD, co-founder of Smile Doctors, recently joined the “Becker’s Dental + DSO…
For Dallas-based Smile Doctors, growth has never just meant adding locations — it’s meant finding doctors who want to build something bigger than a single practice. That philosophy has driven a shift in how the organization structures its deals, which…
Inpatient CDI has traditionally depended on disruptive retrospective queries, fragmented workflows, and clinicians revisiting the record days or weeks after discharge. What changes when context and documentation guidance arrive during the encounter, while the clinical context is still fresh? Health…
Oct 15, 2026 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM CDT
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- Carlos Armando Aguilar, MD, Chief Medical Information Officer, The Christ Hospital Health
- Samuel Y Ash, MD, Chief Information Officer, South Shore Health
- Jason Jobes, Senior Vice President of Solutions, Norwood
Clinical reviewers open a utilization management or appeals case and spend most of it assembling evidence — hundreds of pages, several source systems and a fax queue that has outlasted every modernization plan built around it. The determination itself is…
Oct 13, 2026 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM CDT
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- Mark Miller, Sr. VP of Insurance and Strategic Accounts, Naviant
- Jason Bui, Head of Healthcare, UiPath
- Jessica Wilborne, Payment Integrity Clinical Consultant, LPN, BlueCross BlueShield of North Carolina
- Colleen Bubnack, Healthcare Product Strategist, UiPath