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Front-line responders and providers have captured our hearts. The photos of exhausted providers who, at great risk to…
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Michael L. Sanderson reposted thisMichael L. Sanderson reposted thisHealth systems have spent years consolidating practices and providers into networks, but that consolidation only creates the possibility of coordinated care, it doesn't guarantee it. Nearly 80% of patients who switched providers cited navigation-related factors as the reason, roughly double the share citing clinical experience, and the average wait for a new-patient appointment across 15 major U.S. metros reached 31 days in 2025, up 48% since 2004. Layer on a policy shock: federal Medicaid spending is set to fall by more than $1 trillion over the next decade, pushing networks to manage populations they once wrote off, and there's no room left to treat leakage as a soft cost. For most networks the harder question isn't whether to keep consolidating, it's whether the connective tissue between the pieces actually works: was a referral made, kept, and completed at all? Most referral tooling still answers a static question: who is in network, when the one that matters is harder: who can see this patient soonest, at an appropriate site, at a quality tier the network will stand behind. That gap between structural integration and operational integration is where leakage lives, and under risk it costs twice: once in forgone revenue, and again in outcomes the network is accountable for but never sees. That's the throughline of Empactful Perspectives, Vol. 3: why the next phase of value-based care will be decided at the network level rather than the practice level, and how our portfolio, led by Care Continuity and Clutch Health, closes the loop between routing a patient well and finding out what happened. Read the full piece here: https://lnkd.in/gTTkex3hEmpactful Capital | EMPACTFUL PERSPECTIVES · VOL. 3: The High-Performance NetworkEmpactful Capital | EMPACTFUL PERSPECTIVES · VOL. 3: The High-Performance Network
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Michael L. Sanderson shared thisGreat opportunity based here in Dallas for one of our leading portfolio companies!Michael L. Sanderson shared thisWe're hiring a Senior Vice President of Sales. Our platform has been proven across 100+ health systems, with three million patients navigated. What we need now is a commercial leader who can build the go-to-market engine to match that momentum, someone who has sold into health system executives, earned their trust, and knows how to lead a team that does the same. This is a build-and-scale role for a leader who wants their fingerprints on the next chapter. Interested, or know the right person? Reach out! #SalesLeadership #HealthTech #Hiring #HealthcareSales
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Michael L. Sanderson reposted thisMichael L. Sanderson reposted thisPrimary care is being squeezed from both sides, and the arithmetic is getting harder to work around. Projections point to a shortfall of roughly 58,000 physicians, arriving alongside a rising burden of complex chronic disease, so demand and clinical capacity keep moving apart rather than converging. The business model is changing underneath that pressure: fee-for-service still carries most primary care revenue, but alternative payment models grew from about a quarter of payments in 2015 to roughly 40% by 2022, and CMS has set a goal of every Traditional Medicare beneficiary in an accountable care relationship by 2030. For most practices the harder question is which capabilities to build, not whether the model is shifting. Consolidation is the market's answer to the pressure, and increasingly it is physician-led: IPAs, MSOs, and ACO aggregators are giving independent practices a route to scale without selling outright. The technology answer is narrower than it looks. The durable investments serve both payment models at once, capturing revenue and reducing administrative load under fee-for-service today while building the coordination and risk-management capability that value-based contracts reward. That's the throughline of Empactful Perspectives, Vol. 2: which segments of primary care are worth betting on as the shortage deepens and payment shifts, and how ThoroughCare gives practices a way to build value-based capability on top of work they are already being paid to do. Read the full piece: https://lnkd.in/gUm2WKEr
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Michael L. Sanderson reposted thisMichael L. Sanderson reposted thisA shift that's been building in healthcare for years is now hard to ignore: engagement and activation have moved from a way to stand out to something closer to a baseline expectation. The drivers are economic. Consumers now carry roughly 28% of total healthcare costs, price-transparency rules keep widening, and new entrants from retail, technology, and financial services are competing directly for the patient relationship. Press Ganey and McKinsey find that 89% of consumers will shop for care in at least one category and 70% would consider leaving their current provider, so the willingness to switch is well established. For most incumbents the harder question is where to start rather than whether to act, and the answer is rarely a single sweeping transformation, particularly for systems already operating under financial pressure. Progress tends to come from closing the gap deliberately, one high-return use case at a time. That's the throughline of Empactful Perspectives, Vol. 1: why engagement and activation increasingly work as infrastructure rather than as features bolted onto a clinical or administrative product, and how our portfolio, led by Clutch Health, gives incumbents a place to start without a rip-and-replace effort. Read the full piece: https://lnkd.in/e7Rg9eTQ
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Michael L. Sanderson posted thisFun with Closings! We’re currently raising some $ for a few portfolio companies and I’m reminded of ALL the pain of final closings from fund-raising, asset sale/divestment/purchase closings which I’ve led as President/CEO. It’s always an adventure! Tracking down dozens of shareholders for consent (including individuals, family offices, health systems, public and private companies, family, friends, trusts, etc); delayed wires; re-re-revisions, again; ignorant, loud, disruptive (tiny!) stakeholders who make your life as CEO hell; and various flavors of last minute drama. It’s part of being the leader but I’d LOVE to hear your best stories below in comments on your problematic closings. I’ll share mine as well. In the meantime, for you nubes, focus on the following: - Make sure it’s the right decision (100% conviction) to raise, buy, or sell. If you as the leader aren’t convinced, then it just won’t happen. - Remain calm, but laser-focused on the requisite steps (general consensus, board votes, LOIs, documents, etc). Surround yourself with wise counsel and task masters to stay on track. - LISTEN to all stakeholders (even the jerks) and seek a common solution. Most participants simply want to feel heard and respected- and often have creative ideas. - Keep your eyes on the finish line and grind it out - never, never, never quit. Never. - Be ready for next steps! (Deploy capital, retire, buy another biz, create charitable trusts, etc). No collapsing at the finish line! Already time for the next leg. As always, keep the faith.
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Michael L. Sanderson shared thisIn a tough market for investors, I’ve found GUARANTEED RETURNS!! For only $6,000, you can fund a new water well in West Africa…and change lives for decades to come. Join me in making a redemptive investment at https://www.anidaso.org/ P.S. makes an unforgettable wedding gift, memorial gift, family project, etc.
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Michael L. Sanderson shared thisCongrats to HC and OFFOR team.Michael L. Sanderson shared thisHavencrest is proud to announce an investment in OFFOR Health, a leading provider of office-based anesthesia services for complex pediatric dental procedures. OFFOR's model brings hospital-grade anesthesia capabilities directly into the dental office — expanding access to timely, high-quality care for pediatric patients, including children enrolled in Medicaid. We're execited to partner with Gary Schafer and the full OFFOR team to build on that foundation. https://lnkd.in/gZhQKbzVHavencrest Completes Majority Recapitalization of OFFOR HealthHavencrest Completes Majority Recapitalization of OFFOR Health
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Michael L. Sanderson reposted thisMichael L. Sanderson reposted thisPowerful morning at the Arts District Mansion with Colt McCoy and Brad McCoy on how men can be PROtectors in the fight against sex trafficking and exploitation. Honored to serve on the Street Grace HOST Committee with my one and only brother Jeffrey Blakeley! Let’s goooo!! Overland International Swinerton Bob R.
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Michael L. Sanderson reposted thisAmazing honor, our noble cause of helping rural/critical/community based communities in rural areas all over the US is our passion! So proud of our team!Michael L. Sanderson reposted thisWe’re honored to share that SlicedHealth has been named one of Becker's Healthcare “Revenue Cycle Management Companies to Know” for 2026, marking our second consecutive year on the list. 🎉 This recognition reflects the work our team does every day alongside rural and community hospitals, health systems, and specialty practices. Together we focus on strengthening revenue integrity, identifying underpayments and denials, and turning complex financial data into clear insight that leaders can act on. Thank you to our clients and partners who trust us to support this work. Your collaboration continues to shape the progress ahead! See the full list here: https://hubs.ly/Q047XDsZ0
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Michael L. Sanderson liked thisMichael L. Sanderson liked thisCMS is showing its hand. ACOs are going to have to do the work. The new risk adjustment methodology CMS released for the LEAD Model is where CMS is pushing ACO economics. For years, there have been two primary ways to improve ACO performance: Capture the disease burden more completely and improve the revenue side. Or actually reduce the medical cost of the population. We have gotten VERY good at the first one. An entire industry has been built around coding, suspecting, chart reviews, recapture and finding HCCs. And accurate coding absolutely matters. But risk adjustment and relying on risk-score growth to drive your economics are two different things. CMS seems increasingly determined to make that distinction. Under LEAD, CMS is putting symmetric caps on risk-score growth: 3% for Aged and Disabled and ESRD populations and 4% for High Needs beneficiaries. CMS is also recalibrating the model to remove certain anomalous spending that could distort expected expenditures. And this follows additional risk-score constraints CMS already put into ACO REACH for 2026. The message seems pretty clear. The revenue lever is getting smaller. Now look at the other side. LEAD also introduces CARA, which is designed to help ACOs establish episode-based risk arrangements with specialists and other downstream providers. To me, THAT is the bigger story. If you are responsible for total cost of care, CMS increasingly expects you to actually manage total cost of care. That means going downstream. An Annual Wellness Visit and another HCC aren’t going to prevent a $40,000 hospitalization. Coding CHF doesn’t keep the CHF patient out of the hospital. The coding tells us the patient is sick. Now what are we doing about it? Did we know the patient was discharged yesterday? Did we call within 48 or 72 hours? Did we reconcile medications and get the PCP follow-up scheduled? Why does this patient keep going back to the ED? Where are our specialists sending patients? Which SNFs are driving readmissions? What are we spending on Part B drugs? Which patients are driving our medical expense and what are we doing differently for them? THAT is managing an ACO. We have spent a lot of time in value-based care managing the benchmark. I think CMS is increasingly forcing us to manage what actually happens to the patient. That means transitions of care, chronic disease management, patient engagement, specialist management, site of service, post-acute care, pharmacy, ED utilization and readmissions. It is harder than finding another diagnosis code. It takes people, data, clinical programs, physician engagement and relentless execution. None of this means risk adjustment goes away. It shouldn’t. But risk adjustment is only supposed to make the playing field fair. It isn’t supposed to BE the game. The game is still pretty simple: Can you take better care of a population for less money? Eventually, you still have to do the work. Www.valueh.com/press
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Michael L. Sanderson liked thisMichael L. Sanderson liked thisThank you to North Carolina Biotechnology Center (NCBiotech) for this article highlighting QHP Capital portfolio companies Azurity Pharmaceuticals and Lexitas Pharma Services with perspectives from Ron Scarboro, Jeanne Hecht, and Vern Davenport.QHP Capital takes novel approach to private equity investing in life sciencesQHP Capital takes novel approach to private equity investing in life sciences
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Michael L. Sanderson liked thisMichael L. Sanderson liked thisAlex McManus doesn't start with the technology. He starts with the problem the hospital is trying to solve, then works out what the technology should do about it. Before becoming Chief Technology Officer at SlicedHealth, he spent 20 years building healthcare software at Allscripts, Greenway, and athenahealth. When federal price transparency rules landed, most vendors patched the products they already had. Alex's team built a contract engine from the ground up, and it became the foundation for SlicedHealth variance analysis and claim estimation tools. His team also integrated the full line of CMS pricers, open source libraries that shipped with almost no documentation, so hospitals can model Medicare Advantage reimbursement accurately. "Seeing our clients enter negotiations with a national payer armed with the data to challenge inaccurate reimbursement and advocate for what they are owed is incredibly rewarding." Read Alex's full founder feature: https://shorturl.at/Rxj0F
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Michael L. Sanderson liked thisMichael L. Sanderson liked thisWhat a fantastic week spent with Texas Organization of Rural & Community Hospitals at their Annual Fall Conference. Congratulations to our giveaway winner Dr. Yvette Riker, COO, DNP, MBA, ACHE, CRHCP, CRNA, APRN! 🎉 And thank you to everyone who took the time to stop by our booth to meet with Brian Price, Lance Seach, and Christopher Coney. If you want to stay in touch with the team, reach out at the link in the comments below! #TORCH2026 #RuralHealth #TexasHealthcare #SlicedHealth #TARHC
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Michael L. Sanderson liked thisMichael L. Sanderson liked thisACU junior Cam Hazzard is officially a world champion! 🏆 Tuesday night, Hazzard won the Dunkman World Championship in Atlanta, taking home the trophy and a $500,000 prize. The triple major, honors student and Big Purple Band trumpeter is largely self-taught, spending years developing his skills and often training in ACU’s Money Student Recreation and Wellness Center. This week, that work took him to a national stage, where Shaquille O’Neal presented him with the championship trophy. Read more about Cam’s road to the championship: https://bit.ly/3SCu2Oy
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Michael L. Sanderson liked thisPatient retention, done right, isn't about capturing revenue for its own sake, it's about making sure patients receive the appropriate care, consistently, wherever they are in your health system. That's what drives outcomes, satisfaction, and margin together. If you're a health system leader thinking about increasing margins in today's environment then Care Continuity CarePath IQ is worth a look. #CareCoordination #PopulationHealth #HospitalMarginMichael L. Sanderson liked this𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐜𝐚𝐧'𝐭 𝐫𝐞𝐭𝐚𝐢𝐧 𝐚 𝐩𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐢𝐧 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐧𝐞𝐭𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤 𝐢𝐟 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐜𝐚𝐧'𝐭 𝐬𝐞𝐞 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐢𝐭. CarePath IQ tracks the full care pathway. Following patients across every step, flagging out-of-network visits as they happen, and connecting downstream outcomes back to the decisions that shaped them. For health system leaders, that visibility is the difference between reacting to out-of-network spend after the fact and managing it in real time. Network retention starts with knowing where the pathway actually leads. #NetworkRetention #CareCoordination #HealthSystems #PopulationHealth
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Michael L. Sanderson liked thisAn estimated 9–23% of claims are denied. Nearly 65% of those denials are never appealed. Rural and critical access hospitals deserve the same enterprise-level revenue intelligence tools as large health systems. That's exactly why we're excited and proud to announce our partnership with Juno Health. SlicedHealth contract intelligence, denial analytics, price transparency, and claim estimation solutions are now built into Juno EHR at no additional charge. Juno EHR clients now not only have a more powerful, end-to-end financial health solution but also the intelligence tools to fight back and win. 📰 Read the full press release: https://lnkd.in/eQJGzKuu #RuralHealthcare #CriticalAccessHospitals #RevenueCycle #RCM #HealthcareIT #EHR #HealthTechMichael L. Sanderson liked thisToday, we're proud to announce our new partnership with SlicedHealth. 📢 The financial pressures facing small hospitals are real and growing. That's why Juno Health is teaming up with SlicedHealth to deliver best-in-class revenue cycle intelligence, fully integrated with Juno EHR and included at no additional charge. 🤝 Through this partnership, Juno EHR clients now gain access to: ✅ Commercial contract management & underpayment detection ✅ Real-time denial analytics & dashboards ✅ CMS price transparency compliance tools ✅ Accurate patient claim estimation SlicedHealth has already analyzed $4 billion+ in claims and recovered hundreds of millions in underpayments for more than 100 hospitals. 🏥 Now our clients have that same advantage. 💪 👉 Read the full press release: https://prn.to/3SVB9lo #RuralHealthcare #CriticalAccessHospitals #Revenuecycle #HealthcareIT #EHR #HealthcareFinance #HealthTech #RCM
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Michael L. Sanderson liked thisMichael L. Sanderson liked thisApple Co-Founder Steve Wozniak built the computers that made personal computing accessible to regular people for the first time. He also has some healthy skepticism of AI. He trusts human intuition alongside AI’s speed—and when someone with 50 years of front-row seats to every major technology cycle says that, there’s something to it. Tomorrow, Woz and I are having a conversation about what's actually happening in AI — what's real, what's noise, and what innovating responsibly looks like when everyone around you is losing their head to the hype. There's nobody better to have that conversation with right now, and we are genuinely excited to have him on Validity’s The AI Executive Briefing. Register here: https://lnkd.in/gUjyW8sZBuilding What Lasts: Steve Wozniak on Tech Innovation and the Trust AI HasBuilding What Lasts: Steve Wozniak on Tech Innovation and the Trust AI Has
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ChristianWorks for Children
- Present 24 years 9 months
Children
ChristianWorks for Children is helping children and families meet life’s toughest challenges. If the family is the foundation of our society, then building healthy homes and families should be a top priority for us all. That is the philosophy behind ChristianWorks for Children.
With its foundation deeply rooted in Christian principles, the purpose of ChristianWorks for Children is to help children and their families meet and overcome even the most difficult challenges in their lives. We…ChristianWorks for Children is helping children and families meet life’s toughest challenges. If the family is the foundation of our society, then building healthy homes and families should be a top priority for us all. That is the philosophy behind ChristianWorks for Children.
With its foundation deeply rooted in Christian principles, the purpose of ChristianWorks for Children is to help children and their families meet and overcome even the most difficult challenges in their lives. We strive to facilitate the building of a healthy, loving family for every child we meet. -
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Anidaso Foundation
- Present 5 years 9 months
Disaster and Humanitarian Relief
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Anidaso is a non-profit organization whose founders believe clean water, healthcare, and education are basic human rights. The mission of Anidaso is to serve the underserved in our world. -
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Christ's Family Clinic
- Present 23 years 4 months
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This clinic was launched in the basement of our church in 2003, by our then-minister, Dr Scott Sager. The clinic provides cares for those that don’t have access or resources otherwise. It has continued over two decades under the loving support of Dr Katrina Bradford, and her husband (and our church!). Trying to put our money where our mouth is.
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Preston Road Church Of Christ
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Children
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My wife and I have been involved with PRCC for over 30 years. We are far from perfect - in fact, we are broken. But we’re broken together and we are blessed by this community of believers. -
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OUR Rescue
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Human Rights
Since 2013, OUR Rescue, formerly known as Operation Underground Railroad, has been in the fight against child sexual exploitation and human trafficking worldwide. Our resolve never falters, and we will boldly persevere until those in need are safe.
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New Friends New Life
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Human Rights
NFNL emerged in 1997 when an exotic dancer entered Preston Road Church of Christ seeking help. These initial efforts blossomed into what NFNL provides today – evidence-based programs to help survivors recover from complex trauma, rebuild lives, and thrive.
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CitySquare
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Poverty Alleviation
My wife and I were married by Carey Dowell, one of the early leaders of Central Dallas Ministries (now City Square). In fact, Central Dallas Ministries was founded by Mr Jim Sowell and others from our church, Preston Road church of Christ.
We are blessed to be long-time supporters and volunteers of this important community effort.
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