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Revenue cycle teams are under pressure — and adding more labor isn’t the answer. Healthcare organizations are being asked to reduce administrative burden, improve financial performance and modernize operations all at once. But for many leaders, separating meaningful AI innovation…

May 6, 2026 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM America/Chicago

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Brittany Rambino

Vice President of Revenue Cycle Management, Ambry Genetics

Kyle Fetter

Chief Operating Officer, XiFin, Inc.

Jeff Carmichael

Senior Vice President of Engineering, Analytics, and AI, XiFin, Inc.

Risk adjustment strategies built on retrospective chart chase are no longer just inefficient — they are increasingly financially exposed. As RADV audits expand and regulatory scrutiny intensifies, payer organizations are being forced to rethink not just how risk is captured,…

May 19, 2026 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM America/Chicago

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John Murtha

Health Plan Executive, InterSystems

Many payer-provider partnerships start with strong alignment but fail to deliver sustained results. In this webinar, leaders share what it takes to move from intent to execution — building trust, aligning operations and delivering consistent value across markets, provider types…

May 14, 2026 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM America/Chicago

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Neil Kulkarni

VP Product Management – Provider & Clinical, Highmark

Hussain Sheikh

VP Product Development & Management, enGen

Gaurav Tiwari

Partner, Health Plans & Provider Practice, ZS

Imagine a patient asking an AI assistant to find the best hospital nearby — and your organization doesn’t appear. Not because of care quality, but because your digital reputation doesn’t reflect it. This session will give you a clear framework…

May 21, 2026 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM America/Chicago

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Ayoka Pond

CMO at Baptist Memorial Health

Kristi Melani

CMO at Reputation

Carter Rees

VP of AI at Reputation

For many rural populations, accessing care is still defined by distance, limited resources and fragmented coordination. Transportation has long been recognized as a barrier — but too often, it is treated as an external issue rather than a core component…

May 19, 2026 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM America/Chicago

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Marina Owen

Chief Executive Officer CenCal HEALTH

Sufian Chowdhury

Co-Founder and CEO, Kinetik

Cigna Healthcare offers the best digital experience to commercial members, while UPMC Health Plan provides the best experience to Medicare Advantage enrollees, according to JD Power’s 2026 U.S. Healthcare Digital Experience Study. Both plans topped their respective segments in last…

Ten states have not expanded Medicaid under the ACA. If those states were to move toward expansion, 2.3 million people would secure health insurance coverage. While Medicaid expansion has long been a possibility, there is still some room for upheaval…

In early February, Republican lawmakers in Oklahoma introduced a state bill and joint resolution that could shake up the future of Medicaid expansion. The April 6 version of HB 4440 poses a state question asking whether Medicaid expansion provisions should…

Interoperability has long been healthcare’s unfinished project. Despite decades of investment, the industry still operates within fragmented data environments that struggle to keep pace with care delivered across hospitals, physician groups, labs, post-acute providers and community settings. As care delivery…

May 6, 2026 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM America/Chicago

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Amy Roberts

Director of Health Information Systems and Information Technology, Raleigh Neurology Associates

Sam Lambson

Vice President of Product Management, Platform, athenahealth

Lauren M. Smith MD, MBA

Chief Medical Officer Cook County Health

Nilesh Desai, MBA, BS, RPh, CPPS, CPEL

Chief Pharmacy Officer University of Miami Health System

Steven Travers, PhD, MBA, PMP, CHCIO, CDH-E

Vice President & Chief Information Officer Broward Health


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