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On-Demand Webinar: AI-powered Coding for Cleaner Claims Start Earlier: Practical Strategies to Improve Accuracy Before Denials Begin

May 13, 2026

On-Demand Webinar: AI-powered Coding for Cleaner Claims Start Earlier: Practical Strategies to Improve Accuracy Before Denials Begin

Coding accuracy sits at the center of both financial performance and clinical efficiency but staffing and resources are not keeping pace for many practices. As pressures increase, practices are turning to AI-powered support to keep pace and avoid falling behind.

As documentation requirements evolve and payer scrutiny increases, small inconsistencies in coding can create downstream denials, delayed payments, and unnecessary administrative burden for physicians and staff. AI-enable coding tools now help practices address these challenges earlier in the revenue cycle, allowing coders and billers to focus on higher-value work instead of time-consuming, lower-impact tasks.

In this webinar, healthcare leaders will explore how practices across specialties are taking a more consistent, supported approach to medical coding by adopting AI-driven insights and automation. It will focus on practical strategies to improve accuracy earlier in the revenue cycle, allowing coders and billers to focus on higher-value work instead of time-consuming, lower impact tasks.

In this webinar, healthcare leaders will explore how practices across specialties are taking a more consistent, supported approach to medical coding by adopting AI-driven insights and automation. It will focus on practical strategies to improve accuracy earlier in the revenue cycle, reduce avoidable rework and support cleaner claims, all while enabling coding and billing teams to work at the top of their license and deliver greater value to the practice.

You’ll learn:

  • How to reduce denials and rework by improving coding accuracy and consistency using AI-powered support,
  • Where coding issues most often create downstream revenue cycle disruption,
  • Practical ways to support cleaner claims earlier in the revenue cycle while shifting staff towards higher-impact work.

Cost: Free

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On-Demand Webinar: How AdventHealth Improved Care Transitions and Drove $48.6M in Operational Value

May 13, 2026

On-Demand Webinar: How AdventHealth Improved Care Transitions and Drove $48.6M in Operational Value

Learn how aligning IT and care management reduced avoidable length of stay, improved throughput, and strengthened system-wide performance.

Length of stay is one of the most significant sources of avoidable cost and operational strain in hospitals today, yet many health systems still struggle to reduce unwarranted variation in inpatient days in a clinically appropriate and sustainable way.

In this webinar, hospital leaders will hear how AdventHealth addressed avoidable length of stay by aligning IT and care management and implementing coordinated changes to people, processes and technology. Presenters will share how greater transparency across discharge processes supported timely, appropriate post-acute placement – enhancing patient-centered care and creating more predictable patient flow.

Attendees will learn how this work helped AdventHealth unlock $48.6M in system-wide value (full-year impact), achieve a 9% improvement in length of stay, cut post-acute placement time in half and improve patient flow across more than 50 hospitals.

Attendees will learn how to:

  • Identify the highest-impact drivers of avoidable length of stay tied to post-acute discharge delays,
  • Align IT and care management to improve visibility, accountability and timely decision-making,
  • Translate length of stay improvement into measurable financial impact and increased capacity, and
  • Apply a repeatable, system-ready approach to sustaining care transition improvements at scale while integrating with an existing EMR.

Cost: Free

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Webinar: FY 2027 IPPS/LTCH PPD Proposed Rule Overview for Hospital Quality Programs, May 21

May 13, 2026

Webinar: FY 2027 IPPS/LTCH PPD Proposed Rule Overview for Hospital Quality Programs, May 21

This session provides an overview of the fiscal year FY 2027:

  • Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS/Long-Term Care Hospital Prospective Payment System (LTCH PPS) proposed rule as it relates to the Hospital Inpatient Quality Reporting (IQR),
  • Hospital Value-Based Purchasing (VBP)
  • Prospective payment System-exempt Cancer Hospital (PCH) Quality Reporting
  • Hospital-Acquired Condition (HAC) Reduction
  • Medicare Promoting Interoperability, and
  • Hospital Readmissions Reduction Programs

Objective:

  • Participants will be able to locate the proposed rule text and identify proposed program changes,
  • Identify program-specific proposals within the proposed rule,
  • Understand the timeline and methods for submitting public comments to CMS regarding the proposed rule.

Cost: Free

When: Thursday, May 21, 2:00 p.m. – 2:50 p.m.

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Webinar: Where Revenue Leakage Starts: The Hidden Cost of Manual Healthcare Processes, June 3

May 13, 2026

Webinar: Where Revenue Leakage Starts: The Hidden Cost of Manual Healthcare Processes, June 3

Regulated healthcare environments face constant pressure to keep patient access, registration, documentation, verification, reminders, and exception handling moving without adding administrative burden to frontline teams.

In this session, you will explore how AI agents can support the “work behind the work” by automating high-volume, time-sensitive processes before inefficiencies impact staff, patient experience, or revenue.

Drawing on real-world healthcare use cases, we’ll discuss how automation can help reduce missed calls, incomplete registrations, delayed follow-ups, eligibility gaps, and disconnected workflows across patient-facing and internal operations.

The session will highlight practical ways AI agents can help healthcare organizations improve responsiveness, reduce manual effort, and build more resilient, revenue aware operations before care even begins.

Learning points:

  • Spot where revenue leakage begins across access, registration, eligibility, and follow-up workflows.
  • See how AI agents automate manual healthcare processes like documentation, verification, reminders and exception handling.
  • Learn how automation reduces call center and staff burden while improving responsiveness.
  • Explore how AI agents support resilient, compliant operations across patient-facing and internal workflows.

Cost: Free

When: Wednesday, June 3, 11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.

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Whitepaper: A People First Guide to AI in Healthcare Workflows, Security and Connection

May 13, 2026

Whitepaper: A People First Guide to AI in Healthcare Workflows, Security and Connection

Most physicians spend about one-third of their working hours in the EHR and on administrative tasks – time that comes directly out of patient interaction, judgment work and recovery between cases. AI is starting to shift that calculus, but for healthcare leaders evaluating the landscape, the question is no longer whether to adopt it. It’s where, how and with what guardrails.

This new e-magazine pulls together perspectives from clinicians and health IT experts on practical applications of AI across the workflows that affect both clinician burden and patient outcomes. The discussion includes how virtual medical assistants are emerging as the next evolution of documentation support, what to weigh when selecting an AI vendor, how the AI-era threat landscape is changing cybersecurity priorities, and where AI is actively easing the cognitive and emotional load on nurses.

Health systems featured include Phoenix Children’s Hospital, Hendrick Health System and Holzer Health System.

Insights include:

  • How AI is reducing “work about work,” from documentation to quality reporting,
  • What to prioritize when evaluating AI vendors: accuracy, pricing, integration and transparency,
  • How AI is reshaping the cybersecurity threat landscape and what to require of every vendor, and
  • How AI is easing the cognitive and emotional burden on nurses.

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Whitepaper: What Provider Data Errors are Costing Health Systems and Payers

May 13, 2026

Whitepaper: What Provider Data Errors are Costing Health Systems and Payers

Provider data errors contribute to billions in annual denied-claim waste. Physicians and staff spend up to 13 hours per week navigating prior authorizations and denials, with a meaningful share tied to data errors. And 90% of patients say accurate provider listings are essential to establishing trust.

The problem runs deeper than bad records. Most organizations operate with fragmented provider data spread across EHRs, credentialing systems, payer rosters and marketing platforms – each maintaining a different version of the truth.

This whitepaper shows healthcare leaders how to move past fragmented systems and start treating provider data as a foundation for growth. Real-world case studies and a practical seven-step roadmap illustrate what it takes to establish a single, continuously updated source of truth and activate it across every workflow that depends on it.

Key learnings:

  • Where provider data fragmentation creates the most financial and operational exposure,
  • Why point solutions and general-purpose master data management tools leave systemic gaps in place,
  • How unified provider data supports patient access, referral management and No Surprises Act compliance, and
  • Steps to build an enterprise provider data strategy without a large-scale transformation.

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Webinar: From Early Adoption to Enterprise ROI: Lessons from Nursing Deployments with AI, June 3

May 13, 2026

Webinar: From Early Adoption to Enterprise ROI: Lessons from Nursing Deployments with AI, June 3

AI-powered nursing workflows are helping nurses spend less time completing documentation, but time saved is only the beginning of the ROI story.

In this KLAS-moderated webinar, nursing and health system leaders from Reid Health and Corewell Health will share what real-world deployments are revealing about the ROI impact of AI for nursing. Drawing from implementations, the discussion will explore how health systems are measuring documentation time savings, driving nurse adoption, and connecting workflow improvements to broader operational value.

Panelists will discuss what happens when documentation becomes easier to complete in the flow of care, how recovered time can support nurses and care teams, more presence with patients, and what leaders should consider as they scale AI initiatives across units and workflows.

Join this session to learn how health systems are moving from early efficiency gains to a more mature view of nursing ROI that includes time, adoption, nurse experience, documentation quality, and sustainable change at the bedside.

Cost: Free

When: Wednesday, June 3, 12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m.

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Webinar: The $15M Problem Hidden in Your Charts: How AI Closes Care Gaps Before They Cost You, May 28

May 13, 2026

Webinar: The $15M Problem Hidden in Your Charts: How AI Closes Care Gaps Before They Cost You, May 28

Every missed or under-documented diagnosis – malnutrition, pressure injuries, respiratory failure – cost hospitals an average of $10,000 in reimbursement per patient, while quietly inflating length of stay and readmission rates. Across a health system, these gaps compound into a significant annual revenue drain that traditional CDI tools weren’t built to solve.

The problem isn’t lack of effort; it’s timing. Most CDI processes audit charts 24 to 48 hours after care is delivered, and by then, the clinical window has closed and physicians are fielding retrospective queries instead of focusing on patients.

This webinar explores a different approach that embeds AI directly in HER workflows to identify missed diagnoses in real time and ensure accurate documentation before the opportunity is lost. You’ll hear how one academic medical center generated $1.5 million in annualized incremental reimbursement for malnutrition alone.

Join to learn:

  • Why care and coding gaps persist despite existing CDI programs – and what it’s costing you,
  • How AI orchestrates identification, intervention and documentation in a single workflow, and
  • What separates this approach from screening tools or single-condition point solutions.

Cost: Free

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

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Webinar: How Ochsner Health is Aligning Perioperative Performance, Supply Chain, & Clinical Variation, June 4

May 13, 2026

Webinar: How Ochsner Health is Aligning Perioperative Performance, Supply Chain, & Clinical Variation, June 4

The perioperative environment is one of the largest untapped sources of financial and operational improvement in health systems – and most organizations still aren’t capturing it.

Unwarranted clinical variation, misaligned supply chain strategy and siloed decision making quietly erode margins without triggering obvious alarms. The systems pulling ahead are the ones connecting data, physicians and finance around a shared operational picture.

Ochsner Health is one of them. In this webinar, leaders from Ochsner will share how they’re approaching perioperative optimization through advanced analytics, physician engagement and cross-functional collaboration – and what it takes to translate data into decisions that actually move margins.

You’ll leave with:

  • How to identify the key drivers of perioperative margin leadage in your organization,
  • How supply chain optimization directly affects financial and clinical performance, and
  • Approaches to building collaboration across medical, operational and finance teams.

Cost: Free

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

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ToRCH Care Minor Renovation Bid Opportunity is Open

May 6, 2026

ToRCH Care Minor Renovation Bid Opportunity is Open

The Missouri Department of Social Services has issued an invitation for Bid (IFB) #DSS26009001 for the ToRCH Care Strategic Minor Renovations (Horizon 1) program. This funding opportunity supports the design, modernization and strategic renovation of existing rural hospital facilities as part of Missouri’s Rural Health Transformation Program. Rural hospitals on DSS’ distribution list should have received the bid, but the IFB is publicly available and can be accessed by any interested hospital.

A virtual preproposal conference, with a question-and-answer session, will be held at 2 p.m. Tuesday, May 19. Hospital staff wishing to attend must email Dirk Elrod, with HSS, to receive the meeting invitation. Hospital teams with questions regarding the bid also may email Elrod in advance of the preproposal conference.

Bids are due by 2 p.m. Thursday, June 4.

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