Lebanon, Ind.-based Piece by Piece Autism will shut down by May 15 after Indiana officials said they would bar the provider from billing Medicaid, The Wall Street Journal reported April 1. The state informed the company it would be cut…
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Pharmacy procurement becomes increasingly difficult to manage as health systems expand. Many organizations have centralized strategies in place, yet purchasing decisions remain reactive. The result: inconsistency, missed savings and increased compliance risk across the enterprise. This session explores where traditional…
May 12, 2026 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM America/Chicago
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Calvin Hunsicker
Founder and Chief Product Officer, SureCost
Chad O’Connor
VP/GM Acute, SureCost
Jessica Daley
Founder, Daley Consulting Services, LLC
Waterbury, Conn.-based Wellmore and Hartford, Conn.-based the Village for Families and Children plan to merge operations in the coming months. The combined organization would employ nearly 1,000 staff members and serve 30,000 families annually across 100 municipalities in the state,…
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
Presenters
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
The Defense Department’s “Annual Report on Suicide in the Military” reported 471 service member suicide deaths in 2024, down from 531 in 2023. Here are four things to know:
Forward-thinking rural health systems are not approaching the $50B Rural Health Transformation Program as a one-time funding opportunity; they’re treating it as a catalyst to rethink how care is delivered, how clinicians work, and how long-term sustainability is achieved. Across…
May 13, 2026 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM America/Chicago
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Meghan Sims
Director of Partner Success, Abridge
Dr. Veronica Hooper
Chief Health Officer, Yakima Valley Farm Workers Clinic
As autism diagnoses climb and costs and utilization rise, many payers are tightening utilization management. Maryland Heights, Mo.-based Magellan Health’s Autism Connections — developed in 2009 amid expanding state autism coverage mandates — has taken a different route, emphasizing clinical…
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in an 8-1 decision March 31 that a Colorado law banning conversion therapy for minors may violate the First Amendment when applied to talk therapy, reversing a lower court decision and remanding the case. Chiles…
Newport News, Va.-based Riverside Health has appointed Jack Field as president of its Riverside Mental Health and Recovery Center in Hampton, Va., effective April 6. Mr. Fields succeeds Stacey Johnson, who was recently named president of Riverside Doctors’ Hospital Williamsburg…
Hospitals are now operating in the year CMS has mandated reporting for two Electronic Clinical Quality Measures (eCQMs) tied to severe hypoglycemia and hyperglycemia, with Medicare reimbursement implications beginning in fiscal year 2028. For CNOs, CMOs and quality leaders, that…
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