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Medical Cost Containment
Discover how to turn price transparency from a regulatory requirement into a strategic advantage across revenue cycle management and payment integrity. This session will explore how hospitals and health plans can leverage pricing data to drive smarter audits, reduce payment disputes, and strengthen compliance, all while improving patient trust and financial outcomes.
Learning Objectives:
- Understand how both hospitals and health plans can integrate pricing data into payment integrity processes to proactively identify discrepancies, minimize denials, and resolve disputes more efficiently.
- Learn best practices for aligning data sources, contract terms, and audit strategies between health plans and hospitals to ensure ongoing compliance with price transparency regulations and avoid penalties
Medical Cost Containment
AMS Intelligent Analytics
Website: http://www.amspredict.com/
Advanced Medical Strategies (AMS) is the premier provider of payment integrity, risk management, and business intelligence solutions to identify and address excessive claims, prevent and recoup overpayments, and effectively manage the risks associated with high-cost claimants and group health underwriting.
Medical Cost Containment
Mark Buehrer
PE Founder & CEO
heartfoods
Priya Kesavan
Principal, Azure AI Systems Strategy
Microsoft
Priya Kesavan is an AI Strategy Principal at Microsoft. In her current role, she leads the development of long-term strategies and roadmaps for Microsoft's in-house AI hardware systems. In the past, Priya held several leadership positions in product management for SoC and systems development at Intel and Cisco. Driven by a passion for harnessing AI to address complex real-world challenges and improve user experiences, she is a strong advocate for "AI for good." Priya is also committed to empowering women in technology and AI, spearheading initiatives to foster their growth and advancement. She holds a degree in Computer Engineering from Madras University.
Ashwin Gumaste
Principal Architect Azure Network Hardware
Microsoft
Ashwin Gumaste is an AI Architect at Microsoft. He specializes in building AI systems, scaling networks, and model estimation. Before joining Microsoft, Ashwin held key roles at Infinera, Cisco, and Fujitsu, as well as academic positions at IIT Bombay and MIT. Earlier in his career at IIT Bombay, he designed, developed, and successfully commercialized carrier Ethernet switch routers, earning India's highest science and technology honor, the Bhatnagar Prize. A distinguished fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering and the National Academy of Sciences in India, Ashwin has made significant contributions to AI and network engineering. He has authored three books, published 215 peer-reviewed papers, and holds 28 granted patents.
Apala Guha
Principal AI Architect
Microsoft
Apala Guha is Principal AI Architect at Microsoft. In her current role, she studies AI model architectures and analyzes their behavior and performance on GPUs. With these insights, she co-designs SoCs, systems and compilers for Azure AI. In the past, she was part of AI hardware development at Tenstorrent and Lightmatter. She has a PhD in Computer Engineering from University of Virginia and has held several academic research positions on accelerator compilers.
Stacy Rivkin
SVP, Commercial Strategy
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Lauren Brittany Beach
Assistant Professor
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine