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Healthcare Award Nominations – Annual MOCAN Healthcare Professional and Student Awards, Deadline June 6

May 19, 2025

Healthcare Award Nominations – Annual MOCAN Healthcare Professional and Student Awards, Deadline June 6

Know a healthcare professional or healthcare student who promotes healthy eating and active living in their community?

Please nominate them for the MOCAN award for Excellence in Connecting Health to the Community. The winner in each category will be recognized and share their work at the annual MOCAN Summit.

Deadline for application and supporting materials is Friday, June 6, 2025.

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Click Here to Nominate Healthcare Professional

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Webinar: When Cyberattacks Freeze Revenue: RCM Leaders Discuss Strategy and Lessons Learned, June 4

May 19, 2025

Webinar: When Cyberattacks Freeze Revenue: RCM Leaders Discuss Strategy and Lessons Learned, June 4

When a cyberattack shuts down billing systems, accounts receivable can spike overnight – jeopardizing financial stability and delaying reimbursement for weeks. After the Change Healthcare outage in early 2024, many hospitals faced exactly this scenario.

In this timely panel hosted by Becker’s, revenue cycle executives from leading health systems will share practical strategies for protecting AR and stabilizing cash flow during and after a cyber disruption. Learn how to proactively prepare, collaborate with payers and recover faster when systems go down.

Key Learnings:

  • Frameworks for faster AR recovery and minimizing claim backlogs,
  • How to work with commercial and government payers on interim payments and filing extensions, and
  • Preventing an AR bubble through proactive cyber incident planning.

Cost: Free

When: Wednesday, June 4, 11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.

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Webinar: The Workforce Wake-up Call: Holistic Strategies to Combat Turnover and Burnout, May 22

May 19, 2025

Webinar: The Workforce Wake-up Call: Holistic Strategies to Combat Turnover and Burnout, May 22

Turnover remains one of the biggest threats to healthcare stability, yet may organizations are still relying on short-term fixes. With hospital turnover hovering around 18% nationally – driven by burnout, staffing shortages and declining engagement – it’s clear that a more sustainable approach is needed.

Innovative health systems like Cedars-Sinai and Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center are embracing holistic benefit programs that address the real drivers of burnout and disengagement with flexible care benefits and personalized well-being support.

During this session, attendees will discover how to better support today’s healthcare workforce -driving retention, productivity, and long-term organizational health.

Insights include:

  • Proven strategies to reduce burnout and drive long-term retention,
  • How to design inclusive benefits that meet diverse employee needs – like childcare, elder care, pet care, and education assistance, and
  • Communication tactics that increase benefits engagement and drive measurable ROI.

Cost: Free

When: Thursday, May 22, 12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m.

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Case Study: Mohawk Valley Health System (MVHS) Advances Value-Based Care with New In-House Specialty Pharmacy

May 19, 2025

Case Study: Mohawk Valley Health System (MVHS) Advances Value-Based Care with New In-House Specialty Pharmacy

As Mohawk Valley Health System (MVHS) began its value-based care journey, leadership realized that improving access to specialty medication presented a major opportunity to support their patients.

Dr. Gary Zimmer, MD, FACEP, Chief Medical Office for MVHS shared, “We started asking ourselves how do we get medications to patients who need them?”

The answer was clear. MVHS decided to partner with CPS Solutions, LLC to open an in-house specialty pharmacy

With CPS, MVHS patients now have direct access to a dedicated specialty pharmacy team who helps them secure timely, affordable access to the treatments they need.

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Webinar: How Ardent Health is Elevating Virtual Care to Meet Clinical & Financial Demands, June 10

May 19, 2025

Webinar: How Ardent Health is Elevating Virtual Care to Meet Clinical & Financial Demands, June 10

Hospitals are under pressure – and virtual care is becoming a strategic tool to navigate what’s next.

In this candid conversation, FJ Campbell, MD, chief medical officer at Ardent Health, joins fellow clinical leaders to share the real-world impact of virtual care models that are improving operations, enhancing patient care and delivering measurable ROI.

Whether you’re exploring virtual care or refining an existing program, this discussion offers clear, experience-based guidance on what’s working – and where to focus next.

Join this webinar to learn:

  • How acute specialty telemedicine is transforming care in neurology, infectious disease and critical care,
  • Where virtual nursing and remote patient monitoring are making the biggest impact, and
  • What early AI use in virtual care is revealing about the next phase of tech-enabled delivery.

Cost: Free

When: Tuesday, June 10, 1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.

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Webinar: Policy Shifts and Revenue Risks: How Health Systems are Safeguarding Financial Stability, May 21

May 16, 2025

Webinar: Policy Shifts and Revenue Risks: How Health Systems are Safeguarding Financial Stability, May 21

Medicare, Medicaid and consumer protection regulations are set for significant changes that could disrupt reimbursement models, complicate debt collection compliance and challenge revenue forecasting.

As federal and state policies evolve, healthcare financial leaders must act now to mitigate risk and safeguard long-term financial stability.

The complexity of these policy changes demands a multifaceted approach. Health systems must align legal, compliance and financial teams to ensure seamless adoption while leveraging automation and predictive analytics. Proactive planning and cross-functional collaboration will be critical to maintaining financial resilience in this rapidly shifting environment.

Join this webinar to uncover proactive strategies that mitigate revenue risk, and learn how to:

  • Identify high-risk policy areas that may affect reimbursement and debt collection,
  • Develop contingency plans to safeguard revenue, and
  • Leverage technology and predictive analytics to mitigate financial disruption.

Cost: Free

When: Wednesday, May 21, 11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.

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Article: Physician Burnout Dips, but Pressures Remain

May 16, 2025

Article: Physician Burnout Dips, but Pressures Remain

During the COVID-19 pandemic, physician burnout and job dissatisfaction rates reached historic highs. In the years since, burnout rates have come down – though not nearly enough to ease concerns about the nation’s physician shortage and patient access to high-quality care.

Every three years since 2011, researchers at Stanford (Calif.) Medicine have surveyed practicing physicians to track changes in burnout and well-being among the workforce. The latest edition, published April 9 in Mayo Clinic Proceedings, is based on responses from more than 7,600 physicians surveyed between late 2023 and early 2024.

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An Expanded Look at Recent State Developments in CCHP’s Telehealth Policy Finder

May 16, 2025

An Expanded Look at Recent State Developments in CCHP’s Telehealth Policy Finder

The Center for Connected Health Policy (CCHP) closely monitors federal telehealth developments through the Telehealth Policy Finder, which is updated year-round, as CCHP ensures that each state undergoes three rounds of comprehensive policy review annually.

Each fall, CCHP compiles a full snapshot of the telehealth policy landscape in their 50-State Summary Report, covering all 50 states, Washington, DC, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. This report includes:

  • Medicaid reimbursement status for live video,
  • Store-and-forward,
  • RPM, and
  • Audio-only services, as well as
  • State-level requirements related to patient consent, cross-state licensing, and private payer laws.

To view the most recent version, visit: Fall 2024 State Telehealth Laws and Reimbursement Policies Report.

Webinar: Winning in Women’s Health: How Wellspan Health Scaled Minimally Invasive Care with Robotic-Assisted Surgery, May 20

May 16, 2025

Webinar: Winning in Women’s Health: How Wellspan Health Scaled Minimally Invasive Care with Robotic-Assisted Surgery, May 20

Women drive most healthcare decisions, making them a powerful force in shaping care delivery and organizational growth. By prioritizing women’s health, health systems have a unique opportunity to strengthen strategic positioning and expand key service lines.

WellSpan Health’s approach: Expand minimally invasive care through a scalable, multi-specialty da Vinci robotic-assisted surgery program – starting with gynecology.

Join this session to hear how leaders at WellSpan aligned surgical innovation with strategic growth, improved patient outcomes, and broadened access in high-impact specialties.

What You Will Learn:

  • How WellSpan Health unlocked systemwide value through da Vinci robotic-assisted GYN and bariatric surgery,
  • Why investing in women’s health can be a strategic lever for service line growth, and
  • Practical steps for scaling robotics across specialties with limited resources.

Cost: Free

When: Tuesday, May 20, 1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.

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July 2025 Public Reporting Preview Data Available

May 16, 2025

July 2025 Public Reporting Preview Data Available

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) created the Care Compare website to allow consumers to compare health care providers based on quality and other information and to make more informed choices when choosing a health care provider. Users of the site can compare providers in several categories of care settings.

Today through June 13, 2025, on the CMS Hospital Quality Reporting (HQR) page (https://hqr.cms.gov/hqrng/login), you can preview:

  • Your hospital,
  • Overall Hospital Quality Star Rating, or
  • Inpatient psychiatric facility’s quality data

This information will publicly appear in the July 2025 release on the Compare tool on Medicare.gov and the Provider Data Catalog at data.cms.gov/provider-data/. Medicare beneficiaries and the public can use these tools to view quality measure data for participating hospitals and facilities.

Questions about the information listed?

  • Submit questions to the Inpatient and Outpatient Healthcare Quality Systems Development and Program Support Contract Team via the QualityNet Question and Answer Tool or phone assistance:
    • For inpatient questions call (844) 472-4477 or (866) 800-8765 weekdays from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Eastern Time (ET).
    • For outpatient questions call (866) 800-8756 weekdays from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. ET.