The payer business model built for the last twenty years can’t carry the next ten. At Becker’s Spring Payer Issues Roundtable, the leaders running health plans at Humana, Kaiser Permanente, Blue Shield of California, Elevance Health, Highmark, Oscar Health and…
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The cost-cutting playbook that carried health systems through the last decade has run out of road. At Becker’s 16th Annual Meeting, the CEOs running Sutter Health, CommonSpirit Health, Banner Health, Penn Medicine, Dartmouth Health, Inova, Boston Children’s Hospital and Ascension…
Behavioral health has moved from service line to operating model. At Becker’s Behavioral Health event, the leaders running behavioral health at Ascension, Advocate Health, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Cleveland Clinic, CommonSpirit Health, Hartford HealthCare, Nationwide Children’s Hospital, Northwell Health and…
Multi-location dental groups are facing rising complexity, tighter margins and increasing expectations from leadership and capital partners. As dental organizations grow beyond single practices, finance functions are being pushed beyond traditional models. Manual processes, fragmented systems and spreadsheet-based reporting can…
Spine surgeons in the last seven days marked major tech debuts on the regional and national levels. 1. Jeffrey Gum, MD, performed the world’s first case using Medtronic’s Stealth AXiS spine robot. The Stealth AXiS is made to streamline surgical…
Here are six recent data security incidents and data breach lawsuits happening in the orthopedic industry, as reported by Becker’s since March 23:
Orthopedic leaders agree: What’s holding musculoskeletal care back in 2026 isn’t a lack of innovation, it’s the system around it. From prior authorization bottlenecks to fragmented care pathways and misaligned incentives, surgeons say administrative friction and outdated workflows are delaying…
Glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists have been shown to decrease complication rates in spine patients, and for ACDF patients they may provide some benefit after surgery, according to a study in the May issue of The Spine Journal. Six things to…
Phoenix-based Advanced Spine and Pain is opening a new outpatient clinic and ASC in the West Valley, according to an April 24 news release. The facility is slated to open in June. It is more than 12,000 square feet and…
Care coordination teams are being asked to do more with less. Staffing constraints, rising costs and administrative complexity are turning what should be a straightforward patient experience — getting to care — into one of the most friction-heavy parts of…
Jun 11, 2026 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM America/Chicago
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Presenters
Valerie Holland
VP Sales, Uber Health
David Mutaawe
Executive Director, Community Assist NJ
Kaylanne Chandler MHA, BSN, RN
Director of Care Coordination, Children’s Hospital Colorado
Melissa Fox, MHA, FACMPE, FACHE
Chief Operating Officer, Acenda