Health systems facing financial pressure are focused on approaches that move the needle in a meaningful way, and for several large organizations, those approaches have led to swings of hundreds of millions of dollars in operating performance. Becker’s talked to…
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Medicaid funding is tightening and uncompensated care is climbing. As those pressures mount, health systems can’t afford for the clinical and financial value of care they provide to go unrecognized. Much of that gap is structural. Targeted and retrospective reviews…
Dec 11, 2026 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM CST
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- Emily Goertz, Associate Vice President and Chief Revenue Officer, UK HealthCare
- Gary Basra, Chief Technology Officer, Accuity
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