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Supply savings work tends to end at the contract. Price is negotiated, the line item improves and the program reports a win. Underneath that win, two physicians perform the same procedure and consume different supplies at different cost. Reimbursement does…

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  • Allen Passerallo, Senior Vice President, Physician Preference, Vizient Inc.
  • Ian O’Malley, Executive Director, Strategic Sourcing, University of Chicago Medicine

Average starting salaries for certified registered nurse anesthetists fell about 1% year over year, to $286,250, according to a Sept. 16 white paper from AMN Healthcare.   The “2026 Review of Physician and Advanced Practitioner Recruiting Incentives” report includes data from…

A federal judge has cut surgery centers out of a proposed patient class action accusing Dallas-based U.S. Anesthesia Partners of monopolizing anesthesia in Texas, ruling that the woman who brought the claims never paid for anesthesia at an ASC. In…

Automating routine tasks is only part of AI’s value for healthcare finance. The bigger opportunity is helping teams spot emerging trends, understand performance drivers and forecast results earlier, giving leaders more time to act. But readiness remains a challenge. In…

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  • Frank Stevens, Chief Product Officer, Strata
  • Josh Wiggins, Vice President of Product Management, Strata

When CMS finalized the Ambulatory Specialty Model in its 2026 physician fee schedule, it created a mandatory program that will tie Medicare Part B payments for certain specialists to how they manage heart failure and low back pain. Now that…

John Reynolds, CEO of the Franklin-based Bone & Joint Institute of Tennessee, told Becker’s that one of his earliest lessons in how to roll out AI platforms came at a quarterly all-staff meeting with the practice’s roughly 400 employees, where…

Nashville, Tenn.-based HCA Healthcare aims to average 20 outpatient facilities per hospital by 2030, with ASCs anchoring the surgeon side of the strategy. CFO Mike Marks outlined the target Sept. 15 at the Jefferies Healthcare Services and Technology Conference. HCA…

By 2027, more than 70% of recently implemented enterprise resource planning initiatives will fail to fully meet their original business goals, according to Gartner. The technology itself is rarely the only obstacle. This session tackles the practical questions that can…

Oct 27, 2026 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM CDT

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  • Harun Rashid, Chief Digital Information Officer, Akron Children's
  • Brian Evans, Vice President, Impact Advisors
  • Sarah Hickman Auger, Industry Director, Healthcare Marketing, Workday

CMS released the final participant list in September for its Ambulatory Specialty Model, a mandatory payment model that will tie physicians’ Medicare Part B pay to their performance on heart failure and low back pain care, starting Jan. 1, 2027.…

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