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Rethinking Workforce Spend Management: A New Approach to Solving Healthcare Workforce Challenges

Healthcare workforce strategy has become an enterprise issue. As healthcare organizations rely on increasingly varied workforce models, the external contracting infrastructure supporting that workforce often remains fragmented across labor categories, facilities, agencies, contracts, and regional labor markets, raising a question…

Sep 25, 2026 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM CDT

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Presenters:

Kevin Lewis, Senior Vice President, ProcureMed Alliance
Jeff Niles, Executive Vice President, HWL
Craig Hershovitz, Executive Vice President, ProcureMed Alliance

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Nebraska ASC inks prime vendor agreement with Medline

Medline has signed a prime vendor agreement with Lincoln, Neb.-based Doctors Outpatient Surgery Center. Through the partnership, the multispecialty ASC will have access to Medline’s portfolio of medical-surgical products, including surgical gloves, procedure packs and infection-prevention products, according to an…

CMS proposes 6 updates to its Ambulatory Specialty Model for heart failure

CMS has proposed a number of changes to the Ambulatory Specialty Model (ASM) for heart failure in the 2027 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule proposed rule, according to an Aug. 12 news release from the American College of Cardiology. Here are…

Risk adjustment enters the clinical conversation: Insights from Inova + Hartford HealthCare

Risk adjustment has traditionally lived downstream of the patient visit, reconstructed after the fact through chart review, queries and coding. This session explores what changes when documentation integrity becomes part of the clinical conversation itself, not a separate process layered…

Aug 19, 2026 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM CDT

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Presenters:

Eric Bricker, MD, Internal Medicine Physician and former Co-Founder and Chief Medical Officer, Compass Professional Health Services
Andrew Miner, MD, Chief Health Informatics Officer, Inova Health
Padmanabhan Premkumar, MD, System Senior Vice President and President, Hartford HealthCare Medical Group and CEO of Integrated Care Partners

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The magic number for hospital ASC strategy

There comes a point when health system’s ASC moves stop being a side project and start requiring a more involved strategy, and, according to Atlas Healthcare Partners CEO Aric Burke it’s when revenue is above roughly $2 billion to $3…

Half of NPs have been burned out for more than 2 years: 10 things to know

More than half of nurse practitioners reported experiencing burnout, depression or both, according to Medscape’s “Nurse Practitioner Burnout & Depression Report 2026.“ The report, published Aug. 11, collected responses from 770 nurse practitioners practicing in the U.S. Here are 10…

9 new ASC leadership moves

Here are 9 recent leadership appointments in the ambulatory and surgical space, as reported by Becker’s: 1. Nashville, Tenn.-based HCA Healthcare named Michael Schlosser, MD, as chief clinical officer and executive vice president, and Charles Gressle as president of the…

CON laws are backfiring: 13 new findings

Certificate-of-need laws, established decades ago in an attempt to prevent health services from being unnecessarily duplicated within a geographic area, have become some of the most controversial policies in healthcare. A briefing paper published Aug. 11 by the Cato Institute,…

Atlas' ASCs grew 4 times faster than the industry — and surprised its own CEO

Atlas Healthcare Partners’ oldest health system relationship is also its clearest proof point. In the Banner Health market, Atlas grew from eight ASCs to 32, a fourfold increase, over roughly eight years. “For our Banner market, we started with eight…

The anesthesia workforce cliff nobody's planning for

The anesthesia workforce shortage is not new news to ASCs and physicians – the projected shortage of anesthesiologists by 2036 will hit 6,300, and by 2033, the U.S. is projected to face a shortage of about 12,500 CRNAs, nearly 22%…