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500+ Payer Executives Shaping the Future of Value-Based Care, Affordability, and Network Strategy

Payer executives and health plan leaders at leading organizations come together to compare what is in motion, where they are investing in next, and how they are navigating change across their organizations.

More payer executives attend this conference than any other.

Focus Areas

What's Driving the Conversations

Led by CEOs, COOs, CMOs, and payer leaders, these sessions focus on how organizations are prioritizing investment, navigating pressure, and making decisions across value-based care, affordability, and network strategy. Leaders move between conversations based on organizational priorities, rather than following a fixed path.

AI Strategy & Innovation

For leaders governing payer strategy, measuring ROI, and aligning teams around decisions that cut across clinical, network, and operations.

Sample topics: Value-Based Care Models · Benefit Design · Affordability, Price Transparency, Network Strategy

Cost and Affordability Strategy

For payer finance leaders working through margin pressure, cost trends, and the operational decisions that define performance right now.

Sample topics: Cost Management, Price Transparency, Reimbursement, Network Contracting

Value-Based Care and Clinical Integration

For clinical and payer leaders making decisions about how value-based care takes shape across networks and members.

Sample topics: Behavioral Health Integration, Virtual Care, Care Coordination, Member Engagement

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Search sessions by day, speaker, or topic to explore the full range of conversations across the conference.

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Monday, November 2

TimeTrackTypeSession
7:00 AMNetworking OpportunitiesNetworking OpportunitiesRegistration Opens + Continental Breakfast in the Exhibit Hall
8:00 AMAPanelA. Future-Proofing Health Plans for the Next Era of Growth
8:00 AMBPanelB. Payer-Provider Collaboration: Strategies That Drive Results
8:00 AMCPanelC. Medicaid's New Era: Partnering for Sustainability, Member Retention, and Value Amid Policy Uncertainty
8:00 AMDPanelD. Closing the Gap: How Payers Are Tackling Behavioral Health Access and Affordability
8:45 AMAFeatured SessionA. The Friction Tax: What Payers are Doing to Simplify Claims and Payment Complexity
8:45 AMBPanelB. The CMO's Strategic Edge: Leading the Next Era of Healthcare
8:45 AMCPanelC. Strategic Growth in Medicare Advantage: What's Next for Payers
8:45 AMDFeatured SessionD. The Broker Advantage for Health Plans: Turning Agent Networks into Profitable Growth
9:25 AMNetworking OpportunitiesNetworking OpportunitiesNetworking Break in the Exhibit Hall
10:00 AMAFeatured SessionA. Show Me the Value: Framing the da Vinci Robotic Surgery Impact to Payers
10:00 AMBPanelB. Next-Gen Value-Based Care: Strategy and Vision for the Future
10:00 AMCPresentationC. From Integration to Impact: Leveraging CINs and Learning Health Systems for Sustainable Value-Based Care
10:00 AMDFeatured SessionD. Closing the Timing Gap: When Payer-Provider Alignment Starts at the Point of Care
10:45 AMAPanelA. AI and Digital Transformation: The New Frontier in Health Plan Performance
10:45 AMBFeatured SessionB. From Friction to Real Time: Fixing the Payer-Provider Handoff
10:45 AMCPanelC. Resilient Health Plans: Adapting for Growth Amid Change
10:45 AMDFeatured SessionD. The Gray Area: Making Defensible Decisions in Complex Clinical Cases
11:35 AM—Networking OpportunitiesNetworking Lunch in the Exhibit Hall
12:40 PMAFeatured SessionA. Scale Without Headcount: The Agentic Economy for Payers
12:40 PMBPanelB. Making Compliance, Policy, and Audit Readiness a Strategic Advantage
12:40 PMCPanelC. Taking Care Upstream: The Playbook for the Next 3 Years
12:40 PMDFeatured SessionD. The Operating System for Value-Based Care: Making Risk Contracts Work
1:25 PMAPanelA. Vision 2026: The Future of Health Plan Strategies
1:25 PMBFeatured SessionB. New Survey: Health Plan Executives Choose Trust Over Cost on AI
1:25 PMCPanelC. The Future of Health Plan Administration
1:25 PMDFeatured SessionD. Beyond the Pill: Redefining the PBM from Cost Manager to Risk Manager
2:05 PM—Networking OpportunitiesNetworking Break in the Exhibit Hall
2:30 PMAPanelA. ACA at a Crossroads: Growth, Subsidies, and the Innovation Behind Marketplace Momentum
2:30 PMBFeatured SessionB. The Payer-Provider AI Arms Race
2:30 PMCPanelC. Innovating Chronic Care for the Next Generation of Health Plans
2:30 PMDPanelD. Designing Value-Based Models That Work for Payers, Providers and Patients
3:15 PMAKeynote PanelA. Building Stronger Health Plan-Provider Partnerships
3:15 PMBPanelB. Driving Growth in Medicare Advantage: Opportunities and Challenges
3:15 PMCFireside ChatC. Andreana Santangelo, Chief Financial Officer, Aetna
4:00 PMACelebrity KeynoteA. Emmitt Smith, Pro Football Hall of Fame Running Back, Businessman and Entrepreneur
5:00 PM—Networking OpportunitiesHappy Hour in the Exhibit Hall

The Conversations That Move the Industry Forward Happen Here First

Every fall, the payer leaders driving value-based care, affordability, and network strategy spend two days comparing notes, pressure-testing ideas, and deciding what comes next at Becker's 5th Annual Fall Payer Issues Roundtable.