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…
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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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- 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
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…
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…
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…
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 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 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%…
Anesthesia has become one of the most persistent staffing headaches for ASCs and hospitals alike. It’s not just a bad labor market, but a pipeline problem stacked on top of an aging workforce, a bottlenecked training system and a reimbursement…
Roughly 70 percent of medical decisions depend on lab results but lab spending remains one of the least scrutinized lines in a health plan’s budget. That blind spot is getting more expensive. Routine testing spend is climbing faster than the…
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