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Navigating the Healthcare Affordability Maze: Impact on Providers, Patients, and Patient Payments
Tuesday, February 24, 2026
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (CST)
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Event Details
Objectives:
- Understand both current federal and state efforts to combat patient medical debt.
- Understand how the lack of healthcare knowledge for patients impacts payments.
- Learn from case studies that illustrate how a provider positively changed patient payment behavior.
Audience: General
CE: Certificate of attendance
Presenter: Ryan Werling, SVP, Business Development, AblePay
Ryan is currently the Senior Vice President of Business Development and is based in the corporate headquarters office in Allentown, PA. Prior to assuming his current role at AblePay, Ryan was the President and Chief Executive Officer of Mack Defense (subsidiary of Mack Trucks, Inc.). Ryan is a US Army Veteran having served on U.S. Army active duty from 1996-2008. He is a veteran of the Iraq war with deployments in 2003 and 2011 and is now a retired Lieutenant Colonel in the United States Army Reserve.