HHS Embraces AI: Insider Intel to Prepare Your Organization (On-Demand Webinar)

Date: 10/01/26
Time: 2:00-3:00 PM ET

Closed captions are available.

Overview: This year, national health expenditures are forecasted to surpass $6.0 trillion, up nearly 1% as a share of the total economy from two years ago and employer health care costs are expected to increase substantially next year. Waste, fraud, and abuse are central to creating market distortions in health care, driving up costs, restricting access, and making it harder for smaller rural and economically challenged systems to compete with less operating leverage to shoulder administrative burden. State and federal regulations add to this imbalance and can have negative impacts on the ability to innovate and compete across different types of service areas. Competition enforcement has traditionally examined commercial data, but little effort has been placed to assess how elimination of market distortions manifested through government programs and elements of fraud can better address rising costs. Until now. The Office of the Assistant Secretary for Financial Resources HHS is developing its Audit Enforcement and Risk Oversight (AERO) program, which is driving HHS to examine how auditing tools, inclusive of AI, can drive elements of fraud and risk from the market, and drive market forces through clarity to better, more competitive outcomes. This webinar is a must for any entity filing an audit with the federal government and for antitrust attorneys to learn new ways to bring efficiencies to health care delivery.

Learning Objectives: 

• Learn how HHS budget models are formed.
• Examine why the type of checks that are being implemented were not used previously.
• Understand the aims and focuses of the HHS departments dealing with waste and market stimulation and how they influence internal policies.

Speaker Information:

Gustav P. Chiarello, Assistant Secretary for Financial Resources, Department of Health & Human Services

Ken Field, Partner, Hogan Lovells Cadwalader

Moderator Information:

Allison Smith Newsome, Senior Associate, Nelson Mullins