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This webinar is on-demand and can be viewed at your convenience.  At many infusion centers, nurse schedules are built on tradition rather than data, leaving teams stretched thin on busy days and overstaffed on slow ones. As patient volumes rise…

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  • Amanda Carbray, Clinic Operations Manager, Hartford HealthCare
  • Betsy Hlavac, Clinical Operations Manager, Ambulatory Infusion & Medical Oncology, Hartford HealthCare

Utilization review teams face a constant squeeze: manual EHR searches for clinical documentation slow admission and appeal processes, introduce errors and raise denial risk — all while revenue hangs in the balance. Stormont Vail Health confronted these inefficiencies directly. By…

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  • Chad Yeager, RN, MSN, VP of Quality and Population Health, Stormont Vail Health
  • Brianna Brown, MSN, BSN, RN-BC, CCDS, Director of Clinical Performance, Stormont Vail Health
  • Sri V. Suravarapu, MD, MPH, CPE, CHCQM-PHYADV, Medical Director of Utilization Review / Clinical Appeals, Stormont Vail Health

Despite time-outs and standard protocols, positioning-related nerve and pressure injuries continue to occur in spine surgery. They tend to strike where teams least expect them — in high-complexity cases, in prone and lateral positions, and in patients whose risk was…

Aug 25, 2026 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM CDT

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  • Jen Anzalone MSN, RN, CNOR, CSSL, NPD-BC, NE-BC, Perioperative Consultant and Surgical Services Nurse Manager, J. Anzalone Consulting

Molina Healthcare will continue to shrink its exchange business, President and CEO Joseph Zubretsky said on a July 23 earnings call. The insurer plans to focus on its marketplace membership in roughly six states versus the 13 or 14 the…

A former employee of Cambia Health Solutions has accused the Portland, Ore.-based company of violating the False Claims Act by knowingly submitting inaccurate diagnosis data to CMS and failing to return Medicare Advantage overpayments. The whistleblower complaint, originally filed in…

Committees in the House and Senate each advanced healthcare price transparency legislation this week, both aiming to expand disclosure requirements for hospitals, insurers and other healthcare providers.   Both measures would expand the existing hospital and payer price transparency rules, bring…

A former vice president at Centene filed an age discrimination lawsuit against the company July 21. Kay Timmerman filed the complaint in the St. Louis County Circuit Court. The filing said Ms. Timmerman was 59 years old. In August 2025,…

The Cigna Group’s board of directors July 22 declared a per-share cash dividend of $1.56 to be paid on Sept. 23.  The dividend will be paid to shareholders of record as of the close of business on Sept. 8.  The…

On January 1, 2027, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) will launch the Ambulatory Specialty Model (ASM)—a mandatory payment model that fundamentally redefines how cardiology practices manage heart failure (HF). Unlike previous voluntary value-based programs, ASM is not…

Sep 3, 2026 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM CDT

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Presenters:
  • Kenneth Civello, MD, MPH, FACC, Louisiana Cardiology, FMOL Health
  • Vicki Miller, DNP, RN, CPHQ, Director, System Advanced Heart Failure, Lee Health
  • Sunthosh V. Parvathaneni, MD, FACC, FHRS, Section Lead of Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology Regional Section Lead of Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology Mercy Central Communities Assistant Professor in Clinical Medicine, University of Missouri/Mercy Hospital – Springfield
  • Roy Davis, Group Director, Operations, Medical Cardiovascular, Mercy Health

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