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Healthcare organizations are under intensifying pressure to control operational costs without compromising patient experience or clinical outcomes. Language services sit directly inside that tension — often treated as a back-office expense, yet tied to patient access, throughput and care quality.…

Jun 23, 2026 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM America/Chicago

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Neil Wallis

COO, MetroWest Medical Center

Emmanuel Chepkwony

Director of Language Services, Advocate Health

Corey Bolt

Strategic Business Development Executive, AMN Healthcare

Hospitals are facing the same equation from every direction: expenses are rising faster than reimbursement, patient demand keeps climbing and the workforce to meet it is shrinking. The traditional response — add beds, hire more staff, build new towers —…

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Discover how healthcare organizations are transforming utilization management (UM) with the MCG Indicia suite, which combines evidence-based guidelines with advanced artificial intelligence (AI).  In this session, MCG will demonstrate how MCG Indicia, Indicia Focus, and Indicia Synapse work together within and…

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Stacy Jiles, RN, CCM

Sales Solution Architect, MCG Health

Personal Care Services attendants account for roughly three times more fraud convictions than any other provider category — and most home health organizations don’t realize how exposed they are. The reason is structural. State exclusions take an average of 420…

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The Connecticut Medical Examining Board fined two orthopedic physicians $10,000 each after finding they allowed unlicensed staff to perform laser treatments at an affiliated business in Southington, Conn, according to a May 20 New Haven Register  report. Christopher Betz, MD,…

Hospital settings offered the highest annual mean pay for orthopedic surgeons, excluding pediatrics, according to the latest data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. The agency’s newest data is as of May 2025. Here are the annual mean wages…

Spine surgeons often work with medical device representatives when leveraging the latest technologies and implants. For two spine surgeons those relationships have evolved, along with professional boundaries. Ask Spine Surgeons is a weekly series of questions posed to spine surgeons…

As the spine surgery landscape shifts, so does the workforce needs at spine practices. Evolving complexities in both spine care and billing needs have created gaps where crucial roles are harder to hire and retain. Spine leaders discuss how they…

The way spine surgeons manage their cases has been largely shaped by one persistent hurdle: prior authorization. The extra steps that come with prior authorizations and potential denials have made spine surgeons more nimble to get ahead of them. From…

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