Unlocking Payor Rate Transparency to Benchmark Contracts, Enhance Market Access, and Improve Financial Outcomes Through Data Driven Strategic PRTM Insights
At Executive War College 2026, join Debbie Windsor, Vice President, Payer Contracting and Market Access, Mayo Clinic Laboratories, and Clarisa Blattner, Senior Director, Revenue and Payor Optimization, XiFin, for a session introducing the Payor Rate Transparency Monitor (PRTM). A nationwide database of in-network reimbursement data from the largest commercial payors that enables laboratories to benchmark contracts, assess competitive positioning, and support strategic market access decisions with transparent, defensible data
The Hidden Profit Center: Stop Leaving Money on the Table by Leveraging Laboratory Operations and Excess Capacity for Enterprise-Wide Financial Results
Jonathan Burgart, Director of U.S. Marketing at Abbott Core Diagnostics, will present at Executive War College 2026, addressing hospital executives and laboratory leaders on how to leverage laboratory operations as a strategic driver of enterprise-wide financial performance.
Drawing on real-world data and proven strategic frameworks, Jonathan will demonstrate how laboratories can move beyond a traditional cost-center mindset and play a measurable role in improving operating margin and net income. As Jonathan notes, “The laboratory has the potential to reframe its role in the healthcare system by focusing on the financial drivers that transform labs from cost centers into profit centers.”
The 3 P’s Powering a Resilient and High Performance Lab Workforce that drives Quality and Reduces
At Executive War College 2026, Walter McAndrew, MB(ASCP), SSGB, Molecular Diagnostic Laboratory Manager at MD Anderson, will present a compelling case study on how laboratory leadership re-engineered operations around three foundational pillars, people, process, and performance, to drive sustained, measurable, and transformative improvement.
Clinical laboratories nationwide are under unprecedented strain from reimbursement pressure, workforce burnout, rising costs, and an increasingly unpredictable regulatory environment. Rather than addressing these challenges in isolation, the Molecular Diagnostic Laboratory at MD Anderson Cancer Center posed a more fundamental question: What if workforce stability, quality, and financial performance could be improved simultaneously by focusing on the same core principles?
A Growing Digital Pathology Curriculum
At the 2023 and 24 Executive War Colleges, we stayed on the leading edge, and by popular demand brought you information, case studies and data from first adopter organizations in digital pathology. Over the past decade, there has been continuous improvement in the digital technologies used in digital scanning and digital image analysis. Yet despite these improvements, many pathology group practices have been slow to make the commitment to acquire and deploy a full digital pathology system in their labs. However, with early adopter pathology laboratories reporting favorable results from both the use of digital pathology workflow and the use of the specific Artificial Intelligence image analysis algorithms, we at EWC continue to up our game when it comes to helping you take digital pathology from evaluation and implementation to actual full-blown practice.
Transforming the Patient Clinical Lab Experience
Today’s healthcare consumers are demanding. They seek personalized care, convenient access to medical services, transparency in quality, and digital access to scheduling and clinical laboratory test results. It has become a challenging environment for clinical labs, and it’s why we have a session at the 30th Executive War College, April 29-30 at the Hyatt Regency New Orleans that […]
EWC 30: How it Began
We at Executive War College Central have done lots of proud yet humble bragging over the years, and thanks to all the smash hit reviews by our attendee guests, naturally we have developed healthy egos. However, this year is even more special for us. It marks 30 years for what has become the world’s largest […]
Check out these Corporate Benefactor Sessions in 2024
We say it often and it’s true. We could not bring you the Executive War College each spring without the generous support of all our partners, especially those who work with us as Corporate Benefactors of this elite gathering of clinical laboratory and pathology executives. So, today we wrap up our series in this space profiling each […]
LDT Final Rule: This session will have you covered
We’re on the edge of our seats, waiting for the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to make official the final rule on Lab Developed Tests (LDTs), and wouldn’t it be interesting if it all came down during the 29th Executive War College. Suddenly, “Oversight of LDTs: How Labs Will Need to Comply, Steps to Take Now, […]
Showing Labs The Money; Get Maximum Reimbursement
Every time I read an article in the clinical laboratory world about reimbursement, I immediately flash on a famous scene in a famous 1990s rom com, where a character named Rod Tidwell is on the phone coaxing and cajoling a guy named Jerry Maguire to scream out a certain catch phrase that has since entered […]
A 16-Year-Old Leads the Gen Z Charge into Clinical Lab World
If you see Isak Schmidley around the Hyatt in New Orleans in four weeks, please spare him of the Doogie Howser jokes. After all, this young man is no fictional TV character. He’s the real deal, and a remarkable, wonderful story right now in the clinical laboratory world. Gen Z is in the house! Last summer the […]