The payer business model built for the last twenty years can’t carry the next ten. At Becker’s Spring Payer Issues Roundtable, the leaders running health plans at Humana, Kaiser Permanente, Blue Shield of California, Elevance Health, Highmark, Oscar Health and…
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The cost-cutting playbook that carried health systems through the last decade has run out of road. At Becker’s 16th Annual Meeting, the CEOs running Sutter Health, CommonSpirit Health, Banner Health, Penn Medicine, Dartmouth Health, Inova, Boston Children’s Hospital and Ascension…
Medical City Denton (Texas) has expanded services through the opening of an $8 million cardiovascular ICU. The eight-bed unit is dedicated to advanced cardiovascular and vascular critical care services, according to a health system news release shared with Becker’s. The…
Behavioral health has moved from service line to operating model. At Becker’s Behavioral Health event, the leaders running behavioral health at Ascension, Advocate Health, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Cleveland Clinic, CommonSpirit Health, Hartford HealthCare, Nationwide Children’s Hospital, Northwell Health and…
Multi-location dental groups are facing rising complexity, tighter margins and increasing expectations from leadership and capital partners. As dental organizations grow beyond single practices, finance functions are being pushed beyond traditional models. Manual processes, fragmented systems and spreadsheet-based reporting can…
CMS and the FDA have proposed a new coverage policy to change Medicare beneficiaries access to certain FDA-designated Class II and Class III breakthrough devices. According to an April 23 FDA news release, the Regulatory Alignment for Predictable and Immediate…
Care coordination teams are being asked to do more with less. Staffing constraints, rising costs and administrative complexity are turning what should be a straightforward patient experience — getting to care — into one of the most friction-heavy parts of…
Jun 11, 2026 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM CDT
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Presenters:
- Valerie Holland, VP Sales, Uber Health
- David Mutaawe, Executive Director, Community Assist NJ
- Kaylanne Chandler MHA, BSN, RN, Director of Care Coordination, Children’s Hospital Colorado
- Melissa Fox, MHA, FACMPE, FACHE, Chief Operating Officer, Acenda
Join leaders from Arrowhead Regional Medical Center, Ventura County Medical Center, Denver Health, and San Juan Regional Medical Center as they share how they are keeping their missions at the forefront while evolving workforce strategies and operating models to meet…
Jun 24, 2026 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM CDT
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Presenters:
- Andrew Goldfrach, FACHE
- Dr. Danielle Gabele, DNP, RN, CENP, CPHQ, CCRN-K
- Kris Gaw, MBA, FACHE
- Alan Vierling, DNP RN CENP
- River Meisinger, HCMBA
Transportation has long been treated as a back-office function in healthcare. That assumption is now driving real financial and operational losses. A new report from Becker’s Healthcare, in collaboration with Uber Health, surveyed 150 healthcare leaders on how their organizations…
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A team at Miami-based Nicklaus Children’s Hospital’s Heart Institute successfully performed the first traveling bedside transcatheter patent ductus arteriosus closure on a 22-week-old premature infant. PDA is a small blood vessel that typically closes soon after birth, but if it…