Demand for colonoscopies and other endoscopic procedures keeps climbing, but many centers find themselves unable to absorb volume as the workforce struggles to keep pace with anesthesia needs. Amy Oxentenko, MD, vice dean of practice and chief patient experience officer…
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Health plans are measured on member experience, security, quality and efficiency. Yet one capability quietly underpins all four: Knowing, with confidence, exactly who each member is. As member data spreads across digital and assisted channels, that confidence erodes. Duplicate records,…
Nov 5, 2026 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM CST
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- Brad Bauer, SVP and General Manager, Healthcare, LexisNexis® Risk Solutions
- Siva Balu, Senior Vice President and Chief Information and Digital Officer, Quartz
- Gaurav Gambhir, Senior Director, Member Engagement and Personalization, Blue Shield of California
- Chris Gay, Chief Executive Officer, Evry Health
Schenectady, N.Y.-based Ellis Medicine hosted a free community forum Oct. 1 on the future of healthcare in Schenectady, CBS 6 Albany reported the same day. President and CEO Paul Milton planned to give updates on healthcare access, new investments and…
The Kansas State Board of Healing Arts has suspended the license of a Texas-based physician indicted in an alleged $89 million cardiovascular testing fraud scheme, KSNT reported Oct. 1. The board issued a 90-day order of immediate suspension Sept. 29…
Optum is planning to close one of its clinics in Anacortes, Wash., in December, according to a Sept. 30 report from Cascadia Daily News. The practice, Island Internal Medicine, will provide care to patients until Dec. 4. The organization is…
At least 30 physician practices and ASCs closed or announced closures in the first half of 2026, and Becker’s reported 23 physician practice closures in all of 2025. More practices are also going bankrupt. Clinics and physician practices made up…
Every premium-labor shift, every unfilled specialty role and every room that stays dark reflects a staffing decision. Such decisions are usually one made reactively, one coverage crisis at a time. Workforce shortages, rising case complexity and growing financial pressure are…
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Health systems deliver complex care every day. Far less of it reaches the final bill intact. Between the bedside and the claim sits a patchwork of quality teams, coders, retrospective reviews and post-discharge vendors, all working to reconstruct decisions already…
Nov 12, 2026 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM CST
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- Dr. Yair Saperstein, CEO, Co-Founder, Hospitalist
- Matt Hoffman, Chief Commercial Officer, Avo
- Michelle Wieczorek, SVP Clinical Sales Enablement, Avo
Gastroenterology practices, a gastroenterologist and a lab tied to GI practices have agreed to pay $35.05 million in 2026 to resolve federal allegations, according to Justice Department announcements. Kickback cases account for $34.75 million of that. Both kickback cases involve…
Here are four hospitals and health systems that laid off employees in the month of August, as reported by Becker’s: 1. Duarte, Calif.-based City of Hope plans to lay off 73 employees at its Irwindale, Calif., facility, effective Nov. 24.…