Description
February 19th, 2026
The Ground Has Shifted: Reframing the Provider Lifecycle for the 2026 Reality
Provider lifecycle work in 2026 is no longer episodic, task-based, or siloed. Continuous monitoring expectations, fiscal pressure, AI-enabled workflows, workforce safety requirements, and multi-layered oversight have fundamentally changed how credentialing, privileging, and provider performance must operate. Join TMG to reframe the provider lifecycle as a continuous quality, risk, and governance system, positioning Provider Lifecycle Professionals as essential architects of organizational stability, defensibility, and patient safety.
Objectives:
Explain why 2026 represents a structural shift in provider lifecycle oversight driven by continuous monitoring, fiscal constraint, AI integration, and workforce safety expectations.
Map the end-to-end provider lifecycle quality loop- from credentialing through governance- and identify how each function contributes to performance assurance and risk management.
Articulate how provider lifecycle work directly impacts revenue protection, accreditation readiness, and patient and workforce safety.
April 16th, 2026
Humans in the Loop: Designing Governed, Defensible AI in Provider Operations
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Registration: Free
Attendees Receive: 1 TMG Education Certificate
AI is already embedded in provider lifecycle workflows—but governance, validation, and accountability have not always kept pace. This session moves beyond hype to focus on defensible, auditable, and human-centered AI use. Join TMG to examine how validation checkpoints, documentation practices, cybersecurity controls, and role clarity must evolve to ensure AI enhances—not undermines—provider oversight, decision integrity, and trust.
Objectives:
Differentiate tool-based AI and agentic AI and explain why each requires distinct governance, validation, and oversight controls.
Define clear human-in-the-loop responsibilities for credentialing summaries, performance dashboards, peer review packets, and committee materials.
Identify and mitigate shadow AI and cybersecurity risks that threaten patient safety, regulatory compliance, and operational continuity.
June 18th, 2026
When Documentation Becomes Risk Control: Financial Pressure, OBBBA, and Provider Performance
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Attendees Receive: 1 TMG Education Certificate
Financial reform and increased payer scrutiny have elevated provider documentation from a compliance requirement to core risk-control mechanism. Join TMG to connect provider performance evaluation to financial sustainability- without reducing quality to productivity metrics. Participants will explore how documentation integrity, practice patterns variation, and resource stewardship now directly influence FPPE, OPPE, peer review, and governance decisions in fiscally constrained environment.
Objectives:
Describe how fiscal pressure, efficiency expectations, and payer oversight shape provider lifecycle decisions and performance evaluation.
Integrate documentation integrity, resource stewardship, and practice pattern analysis into FPPE and OPPE frameworks.
Apply documentation guardrails that support medical necessity, coding accuracy, and defensible appeal and audit outcomes.
August 20th, 2026
Building Bridges, Not Tripwires: Standardizing Red Flags, Outliers, and Workforce Safety Decisions
Inconsistent escalation, bias-driven reactions, and fear-based decision-making introduce unnecessary risk for organizations and providers alike. Join TMG to focus on standardizing how red flags, outliers, and safety concerns are identified, evaluated, and escalated—without overreaction. Participants will learn how to align clinical, behavioral, and psychosocial risk decisions across medical staff governance, regulatory oversight, and legal defensibility while preserving fairness and psychological safety.
Objectives:
Differentiate red flags from outliers and isolated events from meaningful performance and behavior.
Apply standardized escalation pathways that support consistent, defensible decisions across medical staff governance and regulatory review.
Integrate workforce safety, psychosocial risk, and team behavior into provider performance management frameworks.
October 15th, 2026
Evidence That Holds: Governing Provider Performance Across Accreditors, Payers, and Boards
The capstone session brings together evidence, governance, culture, and leadership routines into a sustainable operating model. Join TMG to learn how to design evidence that tells a coherent, defensible story—one that withstands scrutiny from accreditors, payers, and boardies while supporting continuous performance improvement.
Objectives:
Design evidence narratives that clearly demonstrate issue identification, analysis, action, follow-up, and outcomes.
Build retrieval-ready documentation that supports surveys, payer audits, and executive and MEC oversight.
Create a 12-month provider lifecycle maturity roadmap that embeds continuous monitoring, governance rhythms, and performance improvement.
November 19th, 2026
Connecting the System: Applying the Provider Lifecycle 2026 Framework
This live session provides space to integrate concepts across all five webinars using real-world scenarios and participant questions. Join TMG to explore how evidence, AI governance, financial pressure, risk escalation, and leadership routines intersect in daily operations—and how to translate the framework into practical next steps.
Objectives:
Clarify complex, cross-functional scenarios spanning quality, risk, governance, AI, and financial oversight.
Apply the Provider Lifecycle 2026 framework to real operational challenges submitted by participants.
Identify actionable 30-, 60-, and 90-day priorities to advance provider lifecycle maturity.
