Revenue cycle experts offer a critical lens through which to evaluate the financial impact of supply chain decisions - uncovering both risks to reimbursement and hidden opportunities for margin recovery. Building on insights shared by UCHealth at the 2025 Spring IDN Summit, this session flips the perspective to highlight how reimbursement trends, payer dynamics, and coding practices intersect with supply chain strategy from a revenue cycle perspective. As financial pressures mount and payment models evolve, aligning supply chain operations with revenue integrity is essential to capturing value, avoiding margin erosion, and achieving sustainable financial performance.

Join revenue cycle thought leaders as they examine real-world scenarios, share tools for margin analysis, and offer strategies for closer alignment between supply chain and finance.

Learning Objectives:
1. Analyze how reimbursement policies and coding practices impact supply chain financial performance.
2. Identify areas within your organization where supply chain practices may reduce margin risk or ensure proper reimbursement.
3. Evaluate the role of revenue cycle data in shaping more financially strategic supply chain decisions.
4. Formulate a cross-functional approach to optimizing reimbursement and protecting margins through supply chain collaboration.

As IDNs continue to navigate rising costs and shrinking margins, supply chain leaders are under growing pressure to deliver meaningful savings without compromising clinical outcomes. While some categories have long been recognized as cost-saving opportunities, others remain underleveraged or newly emergent. Knowing where to look, how to engage stakeholders, and what strategies yield the highest return is essential to maintaining financial stability in today’s healthcare supply chain environment.

Join supply chain leaders as they detail exciting projects over the past year, highlighting savings opportunities and discussing categories that drive the greatest savings.

Learning Objectives:
1. Identify high-spend categories that consistently yield the greatest savings opportunities across IDNs.
2. Differentiate between traditional and emerging areas of cost containment in healthcare supply chain.
3. Evaluate thought leaders’ savings projects to determine which strategies could be implemented in your own organization.
4. Outline next steps for launching or expanding savings initiatives in collaboration with clinical and financial stakeholders.

As more IDNs outsource critical functions—from clinical support to facility management and IT - the management of purchased services has grown increasingly complex. What was once a line item in a budget now demands deeper visibility, stronger governance, and greater alignment between departments. Without the right financial controls and evaluation methods, purchased services can quietly erode margins, accountability, and performance metrics.

Join industry experts as they dive into purchased services from a financial perspective - exploring strategies to gain control over spend, measure value, and ensure outsourced services align with your organization’s financial and operational goals.

Learning Objectives:
1. Analyze how outsourced purchased services can impact margin, budgeting accuracy, and long-term financial performance.
2. Detect hidden or unmanaged costs within existing purchased services agreements.
3. Formulate strategies for measuring value and performance of outsourced services beyond contract pricing.
4. Construct a financial management framework for evaluating and optimizing purchased services spend across your organization.