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2025 brought a sharp decline in 4-star contracts and higher cut points across key HEDIS and CAHPS measures, shrinking bonus pools and raising pressure on health plan leaders. Join health plan executives to explore how real-time data from Remote Patient…

Jan 15, 2026 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM America/Chicago

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Lisa Sipes

Senior Director of Member Experience, Medical Guardian

Tim Haas

Senior Product Manager, Medical Guardian

Vanita Pindolia, PharmD, MBA

Vice President, Stars and Senior Health Services, BCBSM

Richard Pitts, D.O, Ph.D

Chief Medical Officer, Cal Optima Health

Michael Kobernick, MD, MS, MS-PopH, CPE

Senior Medical Director, Health Plan Business, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan

Investing heavily in staff retention, buying under vendors’ best offerings and having tight controls over spending are three ways that this ASC is keeping up with inflation and rising costs.  Suzi Cunningham, an administrator at Advanced Ambulatory Surgery Center in…

The highest-paid gastroenterologist in Los Angeles earns $1,044,600 per year, according to Medscape’s salary reporter tool. Here is what the five highest-paid gastroenterologists in Los Angeles earn each year, their amount of experience and their practice setting. 1. $1,044,600 annual…

Farmington, Conn.-based ProHealth Physicians, owned by Optum, UnitedHealth Group’s physician practice arm, will permanently close its primary care practice in Putnam, Conn., in December.  In a Nov. 25 letter, Putnam Medical Associates said it would permanently close Dec. 23. Two…

ASC growth is heating up nationwide, but states in the South are expanding their ASC markets at an even more rapid pace.  Florida, for example, has become a proving ground for ASC growth, with multiple new centers opening last year…

Georgia Heart Institute, part of Gainesville-based Northeast Georgia Health System, added Emmanuel Amoran, MD.  Dr. Amoran is a cardiologist who is board-certified in echocardiography, cardiac CT, nuclear cardiology and vascular imaging, according to a Nov. 19 news release from NGHS.…

Gastroenterology is a rapidly developing field as the demand for services increases among the U.S. population and advances in clinical technology open up new possibilities within the specialty.  Peter Muscarella, MD, a GI surgeon at Southern Ohio Medical Center Surgical…

A number of defining controversies and innovations have shaped anesthesia in 2025, from AI-driven analysis tools to landmark legal cases, all changing the way that anesthesia professionals make decisions and care for patients.  Three anesthesia leaders recently joined Becker’s to…

Here are five recent statistics that illustrate the mounting supply chain pressures facing ASCs and other healthcare providers: 1. Medical supply chain costs are projected to increase 2.41% in 2026.  2. Supply costs accounted for 13% of hospitals’ expenses in…

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