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Healthcare consumers no longer benchmark their experiences against other hospitals. They benchmark them against every digital experience they have — banking, retail, travel, entertainment — and they expect the same convenience, transparency, personalization and seamless communication from their care. Most…

Sep 21, 2026 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM CDT

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  • Veronique Au, MD, National Physician Director, Ambulatory Medicine Vituity
  • Michael Antoniades, President, Ingalls Memorial Hospital UChicago Medicine

As the push to integrate behavioral health into primary and specialty care gains momentum, a number of health systems are appointing new leaders to oversee this transformation. These executives are tasked with aligning behavioral health strategies across clinical settings, building…

The Oklahoma Children’s OU Health Behavioral Health Center secured a $750,000 grant from the James M. Cox Foundation to expand access to pediatric behavioral health services across Oklahoma.The center is part of OU Health, the University of Oklahoma’s academic health…

Baton Rouge, La.-based Beacon Behavioral Partners expanded into Georgia through a partnership with Valdosta, Ga.-based AR Psychiatric and Counseling Center, its first in the state. The partnership allows AR Psychiatric and Counseling Center to maintain its physician-led model under the…

U.S. News & World Report’s 2026-2027 Best Hospitals for Psychiatry rankings, announced Aug. 4, recognize 17 hospitals, with most backed by a physician leader steering their program. Psychiatry rankings are based on three years of surveys asking board-certified physician specialists…

Payment integrity has long been constrained by audit capacity and review quality. When teams only audit what they’re staffed to handle and consistency varies widely across reviewers, it’s difficult to measure true hit rates or maintain quality at scale. AI…

Sep 21, 2026 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM CDT

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  • Shri Santhanam, Chief Product Officer, Machinify
  • Emma Nasif, Chief Legal Officer, Machinify
  • Vijay Bharadwaj, Chief AI Scientist, Machinify

CMS’s expanding RADV audit activity is changing the economics of risk adjustment. The question is no longer whether organizations can optimize retrospective chart chase. The question is whether their operating model can withstand continuous audit scrutiny at enterprise scale. Retrospective…

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More than one in three patients abandoned their first buprenorphine prescription for opioid use disorder in 2024, up from 19% in 2020, according to a study published Aug. 4 in JAMA Network Open. Researchers found that 25.8% of first buprenorphine…

Five insurance companies now account for about half of the Medicaid managed care market, and adolescents enrolled in their plans often receive behavioral healthcare differently than those in other managed care organizations, according to a study published Aug. 5 in…

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