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LOS ANGELES CA, USA -- HEALTHCARE UPDATE NEWS SERVICE™ -- APRIL 10, 2026: The APG Spring Conference 2026 is just weeks away. Beyond the main stage, you won't want to miss our Breakout Sessions. Designed specifically for physician group leaders, these targeted sessions take a deep dive into the operational, clinical, financial, and policy challenges shaping accountable care today.
Here's a preview of the sessions:
Best Practices in Rooting Out Fraud, Waste, and Abuse in Medicare and Medicaid
Fraud, waste, and abuse cost taxpayers billions each year — and undermine the programs millions of Americans depend on. APG members and the federal policy team will examine effective strategies for detecting and preventing improper activity, building resilient compliance frameworks, and advocating for the tools physician groups need to protect program integrity.
How to Govern Health AI to Ensure Clinical Excellence and Patients' Trust
AI adoption is accelerating — but who is accountable when things go wrong? What about the resulting risks posed to both patients and physician organizations? This session focuses on building governance structures that define roles between vendors and clinicians, manage risk, and foster a "high trust" environment for AI use across your organization.
When AI Systems Are Their Own "Agents": Benefits and Risks for Physician Groups
Agentic AI can now act autonomously within clinical workflows with minimal human intervention. It does not require directions or prompts like traditional AI and can perceive its environment, solve complex problems, and execute multi-step plans, such as searching electronic records to understand patient conditions and treatment decisions.
Panelists will explore the emerging applications for these systems in care delivery — and the guardrails physician groups must put in place to ensure safety and accuracy.
Boosting Value-Based Care Amid Statewide Change Through the Rural Health
Transformation Program
Medicaid is changing fast, and the Rural Health Transformation Program — with $50 billion allocated to states through 2030 — is at the center of it. Speakers from California, Utah, South Dakota, Minnesota, and beyond will share how urban and rural providers can forge new partnerships and capitalize on this opportunity to foster real change within value-based care and payment models.
Engaging More Specialists in Value-Based Care
Specialty care is one of the fastest-growing cost drivers in Medicare and commercial spending — and value-based payment strategies could save $100 billion or more per year. In this session, APG will officially launch its new Specialty Advocacy Coalition, which will encompass multiple avenues for bringing specialists into value-based payment arrangements.
Speakers will cover the CMS Innovation Center's strategy for specialty care, payment models in kidney care and oncology, and a new technology-enabled approach to connecting primary care providers with the most value-oriented specialists.
These sessions are just part of an exceptional program at the APG 2026 Conference.
Other featured keynote speakers and sessions can be found on the Conference website. Please register today and secure your spot at the APG 2026 Spring Conference (May 27 - 29).
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