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Connex Partners

The Intelligence Advantage.

Built for the Complexity of Modern Healthcare.

Healthcare executives are being asked to deliver more revenues against tighter margins in a complex, uncertain, and highly regulated environment. Every decision feels urgent, every priority competes for attention. That can feel isolating. Success demands better, more actionable intelligence. But it also demands resilience. Sound familiar? You’re not alone.

The Connex Healthcare Community was built for you, by executives like you. A curated, invite-only space to connect in confidence with your peers, pressure-test decisions before they define you, and access the hard-won lessons you won’t find in polished case studies.

We ask just two things in return: share candidly and pay it forward. Reciprocity is how we build value together. That’s the engine of our success.

No echo chambers · No participation quotas · Gain more time than you invest.

Healthcare Executive Community Connex Partners

Accessing the collective experience of leaders navigating similar financial and operational pressures consistently expands my perspective while sharpening our decision-making. The strategic value of that peer intelligence is real, and hard to replicate anywhere else.

— Michael Glen Boles, CFO, CHRISTUS St. Michael Health System

WHO THE MEMBERSHIP IS FOR

Healthcare Membership is by invitation, and is designed for the leaders who carry enterprise, clinical, and financial accountability across hospitals, health systems, integrated delivery networks, academic medical centers, and large physician organizations:

ENTERPRISE LEADERSHIP

Chief Executive Officer

Chief Financial Officer

Chief Operating Officer

VP / SVP Strategy, Operations & Administration

CLINICAL LEADERSHIP

Chief Medical Officer

Chief Nursing Officer

Chief Quality Officer

VP / SVP Clinical Operations

REVENUE CYCLE LEADERSHIP

Chief Revenue Cycle Officer

VP / SVP Revenue Cycle

VP / SVP Patient Access

VP/SVP HIM and Billing

The titles above are representative, not comprehensive. Connex membership extends to senior healthcare leaders across a range of enterprise, clinical, and financial roles, and we are always seeking new Members who are willing to share candidly and contribute to the strength of our community.

Leading Revenue Cycle? There’s a Room for That.

Revenue Cycle leaders and CFOs can also join the RCM Innovators Board, led by Chairman Ken Hogue, Chief Revenue Cycle Officer at UHS. It’s a dedicated, off-the-record forum for co-creating best practices, sharing insights, and collaborating on specialized projects. Request a conversation →

How the Membership Delivers Value

Access

Curated connection to peers operating inside comparable leadership realities, delivered through direct introductions and events where relationships form quickly and credibly.

Insight

First-hand experience translated into actionable intelligence, surfaced through candid peer dialogue in closed-door environments, structured exchanges, and community-driven content.

Growth

Leadership effectiveness, decision confidence, and measurable progress that emerge from peer-validated learning and informed exposure to solutions.

"I was able to engage directly with senior leaders who shared not only expertise, but candid operational realities and decision insights that don't surface in traditional forums. Many of those connections have evolved into trusted relationships I continue to rely on. They have delivered far more strategic benefit than I anticipated."

— Susan Albano, CEO, Prime Healthcare PC

Engagement Mechanisms

Our foundations are simple. We deliver value across multiple channels. Engage when and where it matters most, and only as much as you choose. No participation quotas. Gain more time than you invest.

Connexion Live

Invite-only, in-person executive events designed for benchmarking, candid exchange, and meaningful professional growth.

Trusted Partner Platform

Selective introductions to peer-vetted solution partners aligned to your priorities. Bypass cold outreach. Reduce evaluation friction. Decide with confidence.

Healthcare C-Suite Magazine

International Content Marketing Award Finalist. Ground-breaking perspectives, achievements, and thought leadership from across the Connex community.

Member Contribution

Created by and for members. Serve as a speaker, panelist, mentor, initiative leader, moderator, or published voice.

C-Suite Edge: Inside Revenue Cycle

In partnership with SBR2TH and hosted by Ken Hogue, Chief Revenue Cycle Officer at UHS. Insightful conversations that delve into best practices, common pitfalls, and opportunities for innovation within the healthcare revenue cycle.

Mentoring and Career Support

If you’re looking for professional connections or opportunities, support networks, or mentors, reach out! We have the resources to help.

Member Podcast

C-Suite Edge: Inside Revenue Cycle

Because in revenue cycle, the money is never the whole story, and the mess is where it gets interesting.

Hosted by Ken Hogue, Chief Revenue Cycle Officer, United Health Services and Chairman of the RCM Innovators Board. Candid practitioner conversations on what's actually happening inside health system revenue cycle.

In partnership with SBR2TH · Host: Ken Hogue, CRO, United Health Services

Virtual Forums

Expert Panels

Member-led best practices and candid lessons that drive impact.

Trusted Peer Groups

Cohorts of ten executives collaborating across four meetings over eight months on a shared initiative.

Virtual Think Tanks

Off-the-record, semi-monthly peer strategy forums.

Fireside Interviews

Focused, executive-level conversations on a range of topical issues.

Connex AI Assets

AI Academy

Executive-focused AI education and enablement, delivered in partnership with Everworker.

AI Maturity Index

A structured evaluation of your organization’s AI readiness, delivered in partnership with ISG.

What Our Members Are Talking About

Federal Policy Risk

Medicaid and Medicare funding uncertainty has moved from background concern to active scenario planning, sharpest at organizations with high government-payer dependency. The leading posture is no longer monitoring but preparation: modeling several contingency outcomes at once, and weighing grant exposure, local-match requirements, and anticipated coverage changes against the willingness to invest in workforce and technology. For government-dependent providers, this is the lever that governs the entire agenda.

AI Adoption Sequencing

Adoption now spans three distinct postures. Some organizations are deploying, some are structurally blocked by IT governance, capital constraints, and data-security requirements, and some are deliberately deferring, building the organizational and data foundation now to deploy effectively later. Deferral is often the most sophisticated position in the field, not the least, and the deciding variable is readiness rather than appetite. Knowing which posture an organization is actually in changes the decision entirely.

Payer Dynamics

Denial management is no longer the whole story. Reimbursement is increasingly reduced on claims that technically clear, without a formal denial ever being issued, and standard infrastructure does not catch it. The exposure compounds because payer rules change continuously while few organizations translate those changes into clinical and billing workflow. Finding the leakage requires dedicated payment-variance analysis, and the work is shifting from analyzing denials after the fact to correcting the upstream ordering and documentation that cause them.

Operating Model Under Pressure

The turnaround profile is common across the field, and the lesson is consistent: financial stabilization has to precede technology investment. Running both at once tends to let one undermine the other, so the durable sequence is to stabilize first and transform second. The reframe that separates the strongest operators is treating revenue cycle as revenue to maximize rather than cost to minimize, because outsourcing-as-cost-cutting carries downstream consequences that are slow and expensive to reverse.

EHR Lifecycle

Where an organization sits in its EHR lifecycle is the strongest predictor of what its leadership can prioritize right now. Go-live and early stabilization absorb nearly all available bandwidth, while post-go-live optimization can convert configuration work into significant revenue recovery without new procurement. The most useful diagnostic is that many problems presenting as collections failures are actually implementation debt, and reading them that way changes how they get fixed.

Physician Workforce

The generational shift in physician workforce expectations is structural, not cyclical, and supply is too constrained to accommodate those expectations at scale. Every organization recruits from the same limited pool, so talent strategy can reposition an organization within the competition but cannot resolve the scarcity beneath it. The only durable levers are structural: care-model and scope redesign, internal pipeline development, and retention of the experienced layer, because no near-term recruiting answer exists.

These conversations happen off the record, among non-competing peers, at the level of candor that only a confidential environment produces.

Interested in learning more?
Let’s discuss what membership can do for your career.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the Connex Healthcare Community?

A confidential, invite-only community built by and for hospital and health system leaders to candidly exchange best practices and build a foundation for growth strategy, care quality and revenue capture.

Who is it for?

Senior leaders accountable for enterprise, clinical or financial performance at hospitals, health systems, integrated delivery networks, academic medical centers and large physician organizations. Typical members include CEOs, CFOs, COOs, CMOs, CNOs and revenue cycle executives. Membership is by invitation.

What are healthcare members discussing now?

Federal policy and Medicaid and Medicare funding risk, AI adoption, payer dynamics and payment variance, operating model pressure, the EHR lifecycle and the physician workforce. A common thread is sequencing: several organizations are deciding what to stabilize first, what to fund now and what to defer, because running every initiative at once tends to let one undermine another.

What does membership include?

In-person Connexion Live events, by invitation. Virtual forums: Expert Panels, Virtual Think Tanks, Fireside Interviews and Trusted Peer Groups. Healthcare C-Suite Magazine and the C-Suite Edge: Inside Revenue Cycle conversation series. The AI Academy and an AI Maturity Assessment. Mentoring and career support, and opportunities to speak, moderate, mentor or publish.

Is there a group for revenue cycle leaders?

Yes. Revenue cycle leaders and CFOs can join the RCM Innovators Board, an off-the-record forum led by Chairman Ken Hogue, Chief Revenue Cycle Officer at UHS, for co-creating best practices and collaborating on specialized projects.

What does membership ask of me?

Two things: share candidly and pay it forward. There are no participation quotas, so you choose where to engage and how often.

Will I be pitched by vendors?

Only if you ask. Through the Trusted Partner Platform, members can request introductions to solution partners that their peers have vetted, matched to the member's priorities. The introduction replaces cold outreach and narrows the evaluation to partners that peers have already tested.

Are conversations confidential?

Yes. Forum and peer conversations are off the record.

How do I join?

Membership is by invitation. If you're interested, request a conversation at connexpartners.com/become-a-member.