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?