UNC Health Pardee Hospital in Hendersonville, N.C., opened an adolescent behavioral health center Sept. 9 to address the “missing middle” in mental healthcare, according to a behavioral health leader at Pardee Hospital. The 23-bed center sits inside Pardee Hospital and…
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Syracuse, N.Y.-based Upstate University Hospital opened the Kimberly and John Mezzalingua Pediatric Behavioral Health After Hours Center to provide an alternative to the emergency department for children and adolescents experiencing acute emotional or behavioral distress that does not require emergency…
A stroke alert sounds and the neurologist is in clinic across town. Someone starts making calls. Someone else describes the patient over the phone. The clock that costs an estimated 1.9 million brain cells a minute keeps running. There is…
Oct 14, 2026 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM CDT
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- Joanne Lapetina, MD, Chief Medical Officer, Eagle Telemedicine
- Meagan Rhames, BSN, RN, Stroke Program Manager, Piedmont Columbus Regional
- Robin Baker, BSN, RN, SCRN, Clinical Director – Neurology & Stroke Programs, Eagle Telemedicine
Efforts to transform prior authorization are at a critical crossroads: Will government mandates result in just compliance or catalyze national migration to FHIR-based electronic prior authorization (ePA)? The answer to this question cannot be found in the specifics of the…
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- Steven Berkow, Head of Value-Based Care Market Strategy, InterSystems
- Robert Tennant, Executive Director, Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange (WEDI), InterSystems
Capital Blue Cross took steps to broaden behavioral health access in recent years, contributing to a 9% reduction in related emergency department visits. Now, the insurer is looking to deploy similar strategies beyond behavioral health. In an upcoming episode of…
Payer contracting has become a top strategic priority for health systems, but many teams still run it on spreadsheets, disconnected systems and knowledge that lives in a few people’s heads. The pressure is mounting from both payers and providers, and…
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- Jessica Folmar, Vice President Payer Contracting, Strategy & Performance, Novant Health
- Ryan Catignani, MBA, PAHM, Vice President, Managed Care and Accountable Care, Corewell Health
- Michael Haney, Associate Chief Revenue Cycle Officer, Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC)
- Drew von Eschenbach, MBA, FHFMA, Vice President, Enterprise Revenue Cycle, UW Medicine
- Susan Becker, Director, Product Marketing - Healthcare & Life Sciences, Icertis
Picture the morning huddle where someone asks where a patient stands and three people check three different places to answer. One opens a spreadsheet, one checks a whiteboard and one calls the coordinator who happens to know. Nobody is wrong,…
Oct 8, 2026 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM CDT
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- Mauricio Garcia Jacques, MD, MPH, Founder & CEO, Raport Health · Practicing pain & anesthesia physician · Founder, ACHE Institute of Houston, Raport Inc
Health system margins have struggled throughout 2026, and the pressure shows no sign of easing. Rising costs and demographic shifts away from traditional profit centers now collide with newer threats: OBBBA-driven coverage reductions, rising payer denials, the accelerated outpatient shift…
Oct 8, 2026 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM CDT
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- Christopher Kerns, CEO, Union Healthcare Insight
- Eric Fontana, Chief Data Officer, Union Healthcare Insight
- Ben Gerber, Chief Strategy Officer, WVU Medicine
The synthetic opioid cychlorphine has been linked to at least 55 deaths nationally from 2025 to 2026, with prevalence highest in Ohio, Tennessee and Texas, MedPage Today reported Sept. 8. The Office of National Drug Control Policy said in an…
HHS awarded $383.4 million in grants to strengthen behavioral health treatment, prevention and crisis response across the country. Of the funding, $252 million will support the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline, suicide prevention and mobile crisis services, according to a…