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Patients aren’t comparing you to the hospital across town

Healthcare consumers stopped benchmarking their experience against the hospital across town. They benchmark it against banking, retail, travel and entertainment, and they expect the same convenience, transparency, personalization and communication from their care. Most health systems were not built for…

Sep 21, 2026 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM CDT

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Presenters:

Veronique Au, MD, MMM, Associate Vice President of Ambulatory Medicine, Vituity
Michael Antoniades, President, Ingalls Memorial Hospital UChicago Medicine
Shereef Elnahal, M.D., M.B.A., President, Oregon Health & Science University
Hazelin H.L. Ngan, MHA, MA, CPXP, CPHQ, LSSBB, PMP, Chief Experience Officer, NYC Health + Hospitals/Kings County
Dwight W. McBee MBA, BSN, RN, CPXP, Senior Vice President & Chief Experience Officer, RWJ Barnabas Health

Texas physician sentenced for issuing 3 million illegal opioid prescriptions

A physician in Texas was sentenced to 12.5 years in prison for operating a medical clinic as an illegal pill mill. Maryam Qayum, MD, owned, operated and was the sole prescriber at Recare Health Clinic in Houston. The clinic was…

49 ASCs, $407M in revenue: How Atlas became nonprofits' go-to ASC partner

Atlas Healthcare Partners has landed two joint ventures so far in 2026 — one with Prisma Health, one with Fairview Health Services — continuing a run of deals that has made the Phoenix-based ASC operator a sought-after partner among nonprofit…

How HCA, Tenet, CHS and UHS' outpatient and ASC businesses performed in Q2

The big four for-profit hospital operators posted a common thread in their second-quarter 2026 results: softened outpatient and ASC volumes. Tenet Healthcare and HCA Healthcare leaned on acuity mix and pricing to largely offset the fewer procedures, though pricing didn’t…

HCA appoints chief clinical officer, president of ambulatory operations

Nashville, Tenn.-based HCA Healthcare has named Michael Schlosser, MD, as chief clinical officer and executive vice president, and Charles Gressle as president of the company’s new Ambulatory Operations Group. In the new role, Dr. Schlosser will assume responsibility for the…

The ASC fraud case that just redrew the line on MSO kickback risk

The Justice Department’s decision to decline prosecution of Campus Eye Management Holdings while separately indicting its founder turned a spotlight on a corporate structure that has become the default architecture for private-equity-backed provider roll-ups. The structure, with the management services…

California performs first cardiac arrhythmia ablation in an ASC

California has performed the first cardiac arrhythmia ablation in an ambulatory surgery center in the state, following a CMS policy change. In 2025, CMS added several complex cardiac arrhythmia ablation procedures to the ASC Covered Procedures List for 2026. California…

10 stats on nurse practitioner pay to know in 2026

In seven specialties, nurse practitioners now average at least $150,000 a year, with the average annual salary for NPs surpassing $137,000. Here are 10 stats on the compensation landscape for nurse practitioners in 2026:

Top CMS dates ASCs, physicians should watch this fall

ASC’s and physician practices have two Medicare payment rules moving through the comment process at once this fall, both with direct implications for how procedures get reimbursed starting Jan. 1. Here are the key dates to track: CMS released the proposed…

Medicare improperly paid $15.2M for spinal injections: OIG

Medicare improperly paid an estimated $15.2 million for sacroiliac joint injection sessions that did not meet Medicare requirements between Oct. 1, 2023, and Sept. 30, 2024, according to an Aug. 5 report from HHS’ Office of Inspector General. The OIG…