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Webinar: Healthcare C-Suite Leaders: What You Need to Know About RCM to Make it Truly Transformational, September 25

August 20, 2025

Webinar: Healthcare C-Suite Leaders: What You Need to Know About RCM to Make it Truly Transformational, September 25

The revenue cycle has become a strategic lever for health system advancement. However, outdated structures, labor volatility and rising costs are putting pressure on even the most capable in-house teams.

For many executives, a shift to end-to-end RCM partnership has proven key. But true transformation hinges on this: choosing a partner who goes beyond straightforward revenue wins – and into the deeper, more complex process and tech innovations that will help you realize yield improvement and greater organizational wellness.

Join this session to hear candid insights on what transformational end-to-end can do for your organization and what health system leaders really need from an RCM partner.

This session will cover:

  • The real-world impact of end-to-end done right,
  • Key indicators to evaluate when selecting a long-term partner, and
  • What most leaders overlook when onboarding RCM vendors

Cost: Free

When: Thursday, September 25, 11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.

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What Separates High- and Low-performing Hospitals in 2025

August 20, 2025

What Separates High- and Low-performing Hospitals in 2025

In 2025, top-performing hospitals are setting themselves apart from lower-performing facilities through a combination of strategic, operational and financial factors. According to Kaufman Hall and Fitch Ratings, the key differentiators include:

  • Strong market presence in growth regions
    • Hospitals located in expanding markets – especially in the South, Midwest and Northeast – are benefiting from rising demand, better payer mixes and stronger revenue potential.
    • These organizations are leveraging local demographics and economic growth to drive performance.
  • Workforce recruitment and retention
    • Talent remains a key differentiator. High performers are more successful in hiring and retaining clinical and nonclinical staff amid national shortages, allowing them to maintain service capacity and quality care while controlling labor costs.
  • Aggressive payer strategy
    • Top-tier hospitals are skilled at negotiating favorable payer contracts, often using a “mind the gap” approach to keep reimbursement rates at the upper end of the scale.
    • These hospitals maximize market leverage to drive revenue growth.
  • Operational agility
    • High-performing hospitals are nimble and can adjust quickly to changing conditions.
    • They centralize purchased services, optimize supply chains and adapt care models to improve efficiency.
  • Investment in technology and infrastructure
    • Successful systems are proactively investing in AI, health IT and data analytics.
    • These investments support care delivery and administrative efficiency and prepare hospitals for value-based care and alternative payment models.
  • Outpatient expansion and service diversification
    • Expanding outpatient footprints and diversifying service lines allow top hospitals to meet evolving patient demand and offset pressures on inpatient care, particularly in high-cost settings.
  • Proactive real estate and capital management
    • Strong performers are strategically managing real estate assets to bolster balance sheets and fund growth initiatives, such as facility modernization and digital transformation.

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Webinar: Adoption, Scale, and Impact of Ambient AI: Corewell’s Change Management Success, August 25

August 20, 2025

Webinar: Adoption, Scale, and Impact of Ambient AI: Corewell’s Change Management Success, August 25

Scaling technology across a health system isn’t just about deploying technology, it’s about designing a change management strategy that delivers lasting impact and fits the unique DNA of each organization. Abridge partners closely with leading health systems to co-develop tailored rollout plans that meet clinicians where they are.

This webinar will explore how Abridge approaches clinical deployment and success, drawing on proven examples of how leading institutions have driven awareness, adoption, and sustained impact of ambient AI.

You’ll hear directly from leaders at Corewell Health who implemented a multi-pronged, high-touch adoption campaign. The result? A surge in adoption on day one and a rapidly growing base of clinician advocates.

What You’ll Learn

  • Proven tactics for driving provider adoption, including Corewell Health’s change management philosophies,
  • Lessons learned from pilot to full rollout: what worked, what didn’t,
  • Lessons learned from pilot to enterprise-wide deployment, and
  • Live Q&A with leaders from Corewell Health and Abridge

Cost: Free

When: Monday, August 25, 12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m.

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Webinar: Advancing Mental Health Care: Access-Focused Virtual Care Strategies for HCA Healthcare Physician Practices and Urgent Care Centers, August 28

August 18, 2025

Webinar: Advancing Mental Health Care: Access-Focused Virtual Care Strategies for HCA Healthcare Physician Practices and Urgent Care Centers, August 28

America’s behavioral-health crisis is intensifying, marked by soaring demand for mental health services and a nationwide shortage of psychiatric clinicians. To close these gaps, seamless coordination across every level of care is essential.

To make mental health support even more accessible for patients in HCA Healthcare physician clinics and urgent care centers, the healthcare organization teamed up with Talkiatry, adding high-quality virtual psychiatry to resources. Talkiatry virtual visits help ensure patients with mild to moderate mental health conditions in physician clinics and urgent care centers have access to board-certified psychiatrists when HCA Healthcare or community resources do not have capacity.

Join leaders from HCA Healthcare and Talkiatry to hear how collaboration and an access-first strategy can improve outcomes, enhance patient experience and meet the growing demand for behavioral health services.

Key Insights:

Discover how an integrated healthcare network, reinforced by strategic virtual care collaborations, can advance mental healthcare for physician clinics and urgent care centers.

  • Benefits of increased access: to psychiatric care within the primary care setting, including improved patient outcomes and enhanced care coordination.
  • Virtual care as a force multiplier: why a tele-psychiatry solution accelerates access for primary-care and specialty physician practices to complement existing HCA Healthcare and community resources.
  • Scalable collaboration model: Practical steps and lessons learned for health systems looking to weave virtual psychiatry into an existing patient care resource.

Cost: Free

When: Thursday, August 28, 1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.

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48 Health Systems Call for Telehealth Extension

August 18, 2025

48 Health Systems Call for Telehealth Extension

Several dozen healthcare organizations, including 48 health systems, have written a letter to Congress, urging lawmakers to extend telehealth coverage for Medicare beneficiaries.

The pandemic-era telehealth flexibilities are set to expire September 30 without an extension. “While we strongly support making Medicare telehealth access permanent, if that’s not achievable at this time, we urge Congress to approve the longest possible extension,” the signatories wrote in the August 11 letter. “At a minimum, a two-year extension is needed to ensure stability and provide clarity for patients, providers and the healthcare system as a whole.”

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Whitepaper: FQHC Telehealth at Risk: What September’s Deadline Means for Revenue & Access

August 18, 2025

Whitepaper: FQHC Telehealth at Risk: What September’s Deadline Means for Revenue & Access

Time is running out for FQHCs that depend on telehealth to keep patients connected to care. In 2025, CMS flexibilities that made virtual visits reimbursable are winding down months earlier than many expected – creating real challenges for Medicaid and Medicare revenue, behavioral health access and compliance.

But updating workflows and mapping dual-code billing now can help to avoid delays that disrupt funding and patient care.

This concise guide explains exactly what’s changing – and how forward-thinking FQHCs are preparing to stay ahead.

Download to Learn:

  • The updated CMS timeline: what ends September 30, what to bill by December 31, and what extends to 2026
  • How to navigate dual-code billing (CMS vs. AMA) without costly denials or delays, and
  • Strategies to protect cash flow and maintain access for high-barrier Medicaid and Medicare patients

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Whitepaper: Tiny Voices, Big Complexity: 8 Children’s Hospitals Find AI that Gets the Stakes from Day One

August 18, 2025

Whitepaper: Tiny Voices, Big Complexity: 8 Children’s Hospitals Find AI that Gets the Stakes from Day One

Children’s hospitals face unique challenges in care delivery, as young patients are often unable to articulate symptoms fully, creating barriers for immediate treatment. Traditional adult-centric technologies often underperform in these dynamic environments, leaving potential improvements unrealized.

Increasing dependence on inefficient documentation tools exacerbates challenges, disturbs family engagement and diverts clinician attention away from the child, increasing stress for all parties involved.

The whitepaper demonstrates how eight children’s hospitals – including Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Seattle Children’s and Boston Children’s Hospital – are utilizing ambient AI to streamline documentation processes, improve efficiency and enhance patient care.

Earnings Include:

  • Documented reductions in clinicians’ EHR time and enhanced focus during patient interactions,
  • How hospitals achieve better family communication and decision-making, and
  • Real outcomes from prominent institutions that showcase enhanced billing accuracy and operational excellence.

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On-Demand Webinar: Building the AI Bridge: Sharp HealthCare’s Blueprint for Successful UM Transformation

August 18, 2025

On-Demand Webinar: Building the AI Bridge: Sharp HealthCare’s Blueprint for Successful UM Transformation

Integrating AI into utilization management (UM) holds great promise. However, without the right foundation, adoption stalls.

At Sharp HealthCare, leadership knew that selecting the right AI tool was only part of the puzzle. They built a deliberate change management strategy to ensure clinicians were equipped, confident and supported throughout implementation.

In this session, Sharp leaders will unpack how they integrated assistive AI into UM and share strategies that led to lasting adoption and measurable ROI.

Learnings Include:

  • An assessment of various AI technologies and how they assist in the UM process,
  • An overview of the tools needed for an effective change management strategy, and
  • Tips to identify the measurable impact of AI tools in the utilization management setting.

Cost: Free

When: On-demand webinar, watch at your convenience

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Webinar: Meeting Patients Where They Are: How Tech-driven Clinical Workflows Support Population Health, August 26

August 18, 2025

Webinar: Meeting Patients Where They Are: How Tech-driven Clinical Workflows Support Population Health, August 26

Health systems’ patient populations are shifting, driven by aging demographics, expanding service footprints, and rising expectations for transparency and access. Adaptation is paramount.

But meeting patients’ needs has never been more complex. Leaders must engage communities with varying levels of digital literacy while supporting clinicians facing mounting workloads and staffing challenges.

It’s time to move from ambitious plans to proven, sustainable solutions. This webinar will bring together health system leaders to explore how technology delivers measurable ROI, strengthens patient education, and builds more inclusive, streamlined care workflows that evolve as needs change.

Join this conversation to learn how your peers are:

  • Using digital tools to engage diverse communities and advance patient education,
  • Evaluating the ROI of technology-enabled workflows – and the metrics that matter most, and
  • Designing adaptable methods that sustain performance across markets and populations.

Cost: Free

When: Tuesday, August 26, 11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.

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Feds Dismantle Ransomware Group That Targeted Hospitals

August 18, 2025

Feds Dismantle Ransomware Group That Targeted Hospitals

Federal agencies have disrupted the operations of a ransomware group that was targeting critical industries, including healthcare.

In cooperation with international partners, U.S. law enforcement seized servers, domains and digital assets employed by the BlackSuit ransomware gang to hack victims and extort and launder money, the Justice Department said August 11. The government has also confiscated $1.09 million in virtual currency from the group.

“There is no doubt that the private sector also contributed information to facilitate this disruption, once again highlighting the value of public-private operational engagement,” said John Riggi, national advisor for cybersecurity and risk at the American Hospital Association, in an August 11 news release. “The BlackSuit/Royal ransomware group is directly responsible for multiple disruptive attacks against hospitals and health systems, posing a direct risk to patient and community safety. We hope these aggressive law enforcement operations continue at a pace that will meaningfully degrade foreign cyber adversaries’ abilities to harm the American public.”

The operation was conducted by the department of Homeland Security, Secret Service, IRS and FBI.

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