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Webinars Building your CJR-X playbook: Where episode costs hide and how to get ready

CJR-X arrives January 1, 2028, moving the financial risk for hip, knee and ankle replacement episodes onto hospitals. Many of the decisions that shape those costs, though, happen well beyond the hospital’s walls. To help operations leaders get ahead of…

Nov 18, 2026 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM CST

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Presenters:
  • Paul Bruning, DHA, Division Administrative Director, Sports Medicine, Hand, and the Sports Sciences Institute, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Duke University School of Medicine
  • Matt Civili, Executive Director, Signature Medical Group
  • Prakash “PJ” Jayakumar, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor; Director of Value Based Health Care and Outcome Measurement Innovations, Department of Surgery and Perioperative Care Dell Medical School, The University of Texas at Austin
  • Breanna Cunningham, Founder and CEO, CODE Technology
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The boldest bet in ASC strategy

Shelly Harris, RN, administrator of Advanced Surgical Care Clearwater (Fla.), told Becker’s the boldest bet in ASC strategy right now is going after higher-acuity, higher-paying cases that can safely move out of the hospital. The opportunity keeps growing as the…

By: Patsy Newitt

Webinars Next-Level Revenue Cycle AI: Moving from Task Automation to Operational Excellence

AI spending in healthcare nearly tripled between 2024 and 2025, reaching $1.4 billion, and roughly three in four US health systems now use at least one AI application. But for most organizations, this first wave automated isolated tasks without moving…

Nov 10, 2026 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM CST

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Presenters:
  • David Sides, Chief Executive Officer, Ventra Health
  • Erica Franko, EVP and Chief Operating Officer, Ventra Health
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Dr. Costas Kefalas elected president of the American College of Gastroenterology

Costas Kefalas, MD, has been elected as president of the American College of Gastroenterology for the 2026-27 term.  As president, Dr. Kefalas will direct the organization’s programs, including continuing medical education, activities involving national and state medical affairs, health policy…

By: Cameron Cortigiano

Cardiologist compensation hits record highs: 10 numbers to know

Median total compensation for a full-time cardiologist rose nearly 5% to $727,712 in 2025, according to MedAxiom’s 2026 Cardiovascular Provider Compensation & Production Survey Report.  The report draws on 2025 data from 205 programs and 6,476 providers. Programs with 10…

By: Cameron Cortigiano

The specialty hit hardest by second-procedure pay reductions: Report

Gastroenterology practices lose more on second procedures performed in the same visit than any other specialty, according to Jiro Health’s Gastroenterology Practice Economics Benchmark 2026, released Oct. 14. The Austin, Texas-based company found that 20.7% of paid GI second procedures…

By: Francesca Mathewes

Anesthesia's hidden $4M cost

In an Oct. 14 white paper Surgical Directions and Ventra Health argue that hospitals should manage anesthesiology operations and revenue cycle management as one financial system to ease subsidy pressure and protect procedural access. Surgical Directions recommends an adjusted OR…

By: Francesca Mathewes

Former New Hampshire physician sentenced for role in $1.9M fraud scheme 

A former New Hampshire physiatrist and onetime hospital chief medical officer has been sentenced to 12 months and a day in federal prison for signing hundreds of medically unnecessary orders for braces without ever examining patients, according to an Oct.…

By: Patsy Newitt

The wRVU efficiency cut, in dollar terms

CMS’ 2.5% efficiency adjustment cut work relative value units on about 7,700 non-time-based codes starting Jan. 1. It was a percentage cut that came with a conversion factor increase, so the dollar effect is easy to miss. For physicians paid…

By: Patsy Newitt
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