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For many health systems, the push to modernize provider compensation arrives before the organization is actually ready for it. Governance is informal. Stakeholders are misaligned. Compensation practices vary across the enterprise. And the result — delayed timelines, incomplete adoption and…

Jun 30, 2026 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM America/Chicago

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David Kruse

Vice President, Physician Enterprise, Hallmark

Tracie Martin

Vice President, Physician Compensation, CHRISTUS Health

Laura Brattin

Senior Director, Finance and Provider Compensation, Texas Health Physicians Group

Healthcare organizations are under intensifying pressure to control operational costs without compromising patient experience or clinical outcomes. Language services sit directly inside that tension — often treated as a back-office expense, yet tied to patient access, throughput and care quality.…

Jun 23, 2026 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM America/Chicago

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Neil Wallis

COO, MetroWest Medical Center

Emmanuel Chepkwony

Director of Language Services, Advocate Health

Corey Bolt

Strategic Business Development Executive, AMN Healthcare

Hospitals are facing the same equation from every direction: expenses are rising faster than reimbursement, patient demand keeps climbing and the workforce to meet it is shrinking. The traditional response — add beds, hire more staff, build new towers —…

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Discover how healthcare organizations are transforming utilization management (UM) with the MCG Indicia suite, which combines evidence-based guidelines with advanced artificial intelligence (AI).  In this session, MCG will demonstrate how MCG Indicia, Indicia Focus, and Indicia Synapse work together within and…

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Stacy Jiles, RN, CCM

Sales Solution Architect, MCG Health

Personal Care Services attendants account for roughly three times more fraud convictions than any other provider category — and most home health organizations don’t realize how exposed they are. The reason is structural. State exclusions take an average of 420…

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Medicaid recipients who received hospital-at-home care in Massachusetts had strong outcomes, a new study found. Here are eight things to know from the May study in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society: 1. Researchers studied 906 acute hospital care…

John Wigneswaran, MD, has been named chief operating officer of the American Medical Association, effective June 1, according to a May 19 news release shared with Becker’s. In his new role, Dr. Wigneswaran will oversee AMA’s business operations, health solutions,…

Seventeen Democratic senators are proposing to add home care coverage to Medicare for the first time, along with an expansion of Medicaid home- and community-based services. The proposed framework, published May 20, centers on creating a Medicare “home care guarantee,”…


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