Credits Available: ACMPE: 1 | ACHE: 1 | PDC: 1

Session Description:

As Texas healthcare leaders look beyond the new normal, staying ahead of legislative and policy changes is critical for thriving in an evolving environment. This session provides a timely update on the legislative and regulatory landscape impacting healthcare in Texas, with a focus on recent developments, ongoing challenges, and emerging priorities for 2025. Attendees will gain actionable insights into how shifting policies, post-election outcomes, and economic pressures are shaping the future of healthcare operations, workforce planning, and patient care. This session will help healthcare leaders anticipate what’s next and develop strategies to succeed amid continued change.

Learning Objectives:

1.  Identify the most significant legislative and regulatory changes affecting Texas healthcare in the past year and evaluate their operational and clinical impacts.
2.  Assess the continued financial pressures on healthcare organizations, including the effects of inflation, payer dynamics, and legislative budget decisions.
3.  Analyze the implications of the 2024 election outcomes on Texas healthcare policy, workforce trends, and the broader economic climate heading into 2025 and beyond.

Speaker: 

Clayton Stewart; VP, Public Affairs & Chief Lobbyist, Texas Medical Association

Credits Available: ACMPE: 1 | ACHE: 1 | PDC: 1

Session Description:

Description is forthcoming.

Learning Objectives:

Objectives forthcoming.

Speaker: 

Robbyn Lessig, BS, RHIA, MCHC; Founder & CEO, Preferred Compliance Partners

Credits Available: ACMPE: 1 | ACHE: 1 | PDC: 1

Session Description:

In today’s evolving workplace, creating a healthy culture requires more than top-down leadership—it takes empowered teams. This session will explore how negativity takes root in the workplace and identify common contributors to a toxic environment. Attendees will learn simple, actionable tools to address negativity and foster a more positive, resilient culture. Leave equipped to help your team become the transformation they want to see.

Learning Objectives:

1.  Learn how to eliminate toxic behaviors such as gossip and complaining within the workplace.
2. Understand how to train supervisors to identify and redirect unhealthy behaviors.
3. Gain a step-by-step program for building or maintaining a healthy workplace culture.
4. Explore budget-friendly recognition programs to support a positive work environment.
5. Discover practical tools to help shift mindsets, including strategies for creating and maintaining healthy boundaries.

Speaker: 

Lisa Duran; Founder, Lisa Duran Consulting

Credits Available: ACMPE: 1 | ACHE: 1 | PDC: 1

Session Description:

We hear it time and time again, “if only we had another team member” or “we just need more time.” In this interactive session, we will explore how AI tools can empower your top-performing team members, enabling them to get back to patient care and deliver even greater value in your practice. By automating routine tasks, AI allows your team members to focus on the patient experience through innovation, helping them achieve better outcomes for patients and your business. Through hands-on exploration of cutting-edge AI tools, this course will equip you and your team to work smarter, more efficiently and bring their focus back to what matters most...the patients.

Learning Objectives:

1. Enhance the Expertise of Your Top Performers:
   • Demonstrate how AI can augment the abilities of your best team members and business staff by providing enhanced tools, real-time decision support, and advanced patient care solutions.
   • Outcome: Participants will learn how to use AI to amplify the impact of their most skilled team members, allowing them to focus on high-value activities.
2. Explore the Role of AI in Fostering Innovation:
   • Discuss how AI enables your most innovative employees to spend less time on administrative tasks and more time on strategic initiatives, patient engagement, and developing new services.
   • Outcome: Attendees will learn strategies for using AI to free up time for their key team members to focus on areas that drive business growth and patient satisfaction.
3. Provide Hands-On Interaction with AI Tools:
   • Offer a hands-on demonstration of AI-powered tools and provide a practical understanding of how these technologies can be integrated into their practice.
   • Outcome: Participants will experience firsthand how AI tools work and how they can directly empower key staff members.
4. Create a Strategy for AI Adoption Focused on People:
   • Develop a personalized plan for integrating AI into your practice that focuses on enhancing the skills of your best people, rather than simply replacing or automating tasks.
   • Outcome: Participants will leave with a tailored roadmap for using AI to uplift their team, ensuring the highest levels of clinical and business performance.

Speaker: 

Lawson Boothe, MBA; CEO, Revival Health

Megan Odell, MHHR; Business Operations Manager, Revival Health

Credits Available: ACMPE: 1 | ACHE: 1

Session Description:

Description is forthcoming.

Learning Objectives:

Objectives are forthcoming.

Speaker: 

Patrick Figures; CEO, Reticle

Kera Geist; Director, Billing Operations, Reticle

Credits Available: ACMPE: 1 | ACHE: 1

Session Description:

Private equity investment in healthcare has grown significantly over the past two decades, reshaping the landscape of care delivery across the United States.  This session provides a foundational understanding of private equity in the healthcare sector:  how it works, why it has proliferated, and where it has had the most influence.  The discussion begins with a brief overview of private equity fundamentals, including common investment structures, typical acquisition targets (such as physician practices, long-term care facilities, and health IT companies), and the motivations behind investor interest in healthcare. Participants will then be guided through a current-day snapshot of private equity activity in the sector, using real-world examples and emerging trends.  The session highlights both the benefits and risks associated with private equity ownership. Attendees will leave with a balanced understanding of the role private equity plays in healthcare today and its implications for patients, providers, and policymakers alike.  This presentation is ideal for healthcare leaders, administrators, educators, and stakeholders seeking clarity on one of the most consequential financial forces shaping modern healthcare delivery.

Learning Objectives:

1. Explain the core principles of private equity investment and identify common structures, acquisition targets, and motivations for investor involvement in the U.S. healthcare sector.
2. Analyze current trends and real-world examples of private equity activity in healthcare, including its areas of growth, operational strategies, and market influence.
3. Evaluate the potential benefits and risks of private equity ownership in healthcare organizations, with attention to implications for care quality, cost, access, and regulatory oversight.

Speaker: 

Cristian Lieneck, PhD, MHA, FACMPE, FACHE, FAHM, FHIMSS; Associate Professor & Interim Director, School of Health Administration, College of Health Professions, Texas State University

Credits Available: ACMPE: 1 | ACHE: 1 | PDC: 1

Session Description:

Description is forthcoming.

Learning Objectives:

Objectives are forthcoming.

Speaker: 

Forthcoming.

Credits Available: ACMPE: 1 | ACHE: 1 | PDC: 1

Session Description:

People who work together don’t always get along and often don’t understand why. As a matter of individual progression, we typically grow by following the path of least resistance for ourselves while ignoring the strengths that reside in the collective sum of the organization.  This training presentation is about improving team harmony and unity, by focusing on teambuilding, understanding interpersonal relationships, and proactively addressing issues that lead to destructive conflict.

Learning Objectives:

1. Identify common sources of interpersonal conflict within teams and recognize how individual tendencies can contribute to disharmony.
2. Explore strategies for strengthening team cohesion by leveraging diverse strengths and improving interpersonal skills.
3. Develop practical approaches to proactively address and manage conflict to foster a more unified and collaborative team environment.

Speaker: 

Frank Lisenbee, SPHR, CHP, CMRP; CEO, Healthcare Compliance Readiness

Credits Available: ACMPE: 1 | ACHE: 1 | PDC: 1

Session Description:

Description is forthcoming.

Learning Objectives:

Objectives are forthcoming.

Speaker: 

Forthcoming.

Credits Available: ACMPE: 1 | ACHE: 1 | PDC: 1

Session Description:

Description is forthcoming.

Learning Objectives:

Objectives are forthcoming.

Speaker: 

Forthcoming.

Credits Available: ACMPE: 1 | ACHE: 1 | PDC: 1

Session Description:

A strong driver of employee engagement and retention is career growth and development. However, there are not always job titles and promotions to be handed out, no matter the size of your organization. Crafting a plan to develop associates’ soft and hard skills will help make them more successful in their current roles, fulfill their growth goals, and prepare them for future promotional opportunities. These career development pathways will enhance your employees’ engagement and can prevent them from looking outside of the organization for growth opportunities. Learn why career development is important and how to create a plan for your teams.

Learning Objectives:

1. Identify the need to create and sustain a career path development program.
2. Define the three paths to gain career development.
3. Discover how to create a career development plan with your leaders and associates. 

Speaker: 

Robyn Hoffman, PT, MBA; Director of Physician Operations, Texas Ascension Medical Group

Tracey Schwartz, EdD, FACMPE; VP - Operations, Texas Ascension Medical Group

Credits Available: ACMPE: 1 | ACHE: 1 | PDC: 1

Session Description:

Description is forthcoming.

Learning Objectives:

Objectives are forthcoming.

Speaker: 

Forthcoming.

Credits Available: ACMPE: 1 | ACHE: 1 | PDC: 1

Session Description:

Today's workplace brings together multiple generations, each with unique perspectives, experiences, and needs. This session will help leaders understand generational differences and similarities while focusing on the one shared obstacle that challenges them all. Attendees will gain tools to support every generation in managing stress and navigating change. Walk away with strategies to foster accountability and cohesion across your team—because in the end, leadership starts with how we choose to respond.

Learning Objectives:

1. Understand the key differences and similarities between generations in the workplace.
2. Identify the one common obstacle that impacts employees across all generations.
3. Learn how to equip all generations with strategies to navigate stress effectively.
4. Learn how to equip all generations with tools to navigate change successfully.
5. Embrace the mindset that “my response is my responsibility” as a foundation for leadership and collaboration.

Speaker: 

Lisa Duran; Founder, Lisa Duran Consulting