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CMS Head of Medicare Advantage Strategy Discusses Medicare Advantage Models at the 5th Virtual Value-Based Payment Summit
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- Virtual Online Video Event Live and Archived
- Part of the Heritage Value-based Care Conference Series
- Held in conjunction with Health Care Value Week
- Media Partners: Harvard Health Policy Review, Health Affairs and Inside Health Policy
- March 2-6, 2026
- www.ValueBasedPaymentSummit.com
PRESS RELEASE
Phone: 800-503-7414
Email: reginfo@hcconferences.com
Website: www.ValueBasedPaymentSummit.com |
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EARLY BIRD REGISTRATION DISCOUNT
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Click here to register by 1/30/26 for the Early Bird Discount
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FEATURING A FIRESIDE CHAT ON MEDICARE ADVANTAGE MODELS BY
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CHAT WITH
Boris Vabson, PhD
Senior Advisor and Head of MA Strategy, Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation; Faculty Member and Researcher (on leave), Harvard Medical School, Washington, DC |
INTERVIEWED BY
Jennifer Podulka, MPAff
Senior Vice President of Federal Policy, America's Physician Groups; Former Senior Policy Analyst, MedPAC, Washington, DC
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WASHINGTON DC USA -- HEALTHCARE UPDATE NEWS SERVICE™ -- JANUARY 26, 2026: The Fifth Virtual Value-based Payment Summit is pleased to announce that it is offering its virtual session on March 2-6, 2026 during Health Care Value Week.
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GOVERNMENT KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
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Stephanie Carlton*
Deputy Administrator & Chief of Staff, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services; Former Partner, McKinsey & Company; Former Republican Staff, US Senate Finance Committee, Washington, DC |
Jacob Shiff, MBA
Chief AI and Technology Officer, Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation, Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services; Founder, Anomaly (Healthcare AI), Washington, DC
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Abe Sutton, JD*
Director, CMS Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation; Former Policy Advisor at the Domestic Policy Council, The White House (Trump), Washington, DC |
Boris Vabson, PhD
Senior Advisor and Head of MA Strategy, Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation; Faculty Member and Researcher (on leave), Harvard Medical School, Washington, DC
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*Subject to final ethics approval.
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KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
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Adam Boehler
Founder & Managing Director, Rubicon Founders; Former CEO, Int'l Development Finance Corporation; Former Deputy Administrator & Director, CMS CMMI (Trump 1), Nashville, TN |
Elizabeth Fowler, PhD, JD
Distinguished Scholar, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health; Former Deputy Administrator & Director, CMS CMMI (Biden); Former Special Assistant to President Obama, Washington, DC |
Mark McClellan, MD, PhD
Director, Robert J Margolis Center for Health Policy, Medicine and Health Policy, Duke University; Former CMS Administrator and FDA Commissioner (GW Bush), Washington, DC
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Thomas A. Scully, JD
General Partner, Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe; Principal, Federal Health Policy Strategies; Partner, Scully, Roskey & Missmar; Former Administrator, CMS, New York, NY |
Andy Slavitt, MBA
Co-Founder & General Partner, Town Hall Ventures; Chairman, United States of Care; Former Acting Administrator, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (Obama), Pasadena, CA
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FEATURED FACULTY
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Syed Sumair Akhtar, MD, MHCDS
Chief Clinical Officer, Strive Health; Former Vice President, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota, Chicago, IL |
Lisa Bari, MBA, MPH
Vice President of Policy and Partnerships, Innovaccer; Founding CEO, Civitas Networks for Health; Former Health IT, Interoperability & AI Lead, CMS Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation, San Francisco, CA |
Nancy Beran, MD
Vice President and Chief Quality Officer Ambulatory, Northwell Health; Chief Medical Officer, Westchester Health Medical, PC, White Plains, NY
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Marc Berg, PhD
Head of Value Based Care, Ennoble Care; Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Penn Ave Health ACO, Washington DC |
Emily (DuHamel) Brower, MBA
President and Chief Executive Officer, National Association of ACOs; Former SVP, Clinical Integration & Physician Services, Trinity Health, Detroit, MI |
Edward J. Buckley, III, PhD
Executive, Sword Health; General Manager, Sword Intelligence; Chairman, Scholar Education; Vice President, Board of Directors, Balance 180, Tampa, FL
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Ken Cohen, MD, FACP
Executive Director of Translational Research, Optum Health; Former Chief Medical Officer, New West Physicians, Golden, CO |
Susan Dentzer, MS
President and Chief Executive Officer, America's Physician Groups; Former Editor in Chief, Health Affairs; Former Health Correspondent, PBS NewsHour, Washington, DC |
Alexander Ding, MD, MBA
Enterprise Deputy Chief Medical Officer, Humana, Louisville, KY
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AGENDA NOW AVAILABLE
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Click Here to review the agenda
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EARLY BIRD REGISTRATION DISCOUNT
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SUMMIT WELCOME BY
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Richard Merkin, MD
Board, California Institute of Technology and USC Keck School of Medicine; Founder Richard Merkin Foundation for Stem Cell Research, Broad Institute, Harvard and MIT, Los Angeles, CA
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CO CHAIRS
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Mara McDermott, JD
Chief Executive Officer, Accountable for Health
Kristen Ratcliff McGovern
Partner, Sirona Strategies
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SPONSORS
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MEDIA PARTNERS
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TUITION SCHOLARSHIPS
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The Value-based Payment Summit offers partial and full Tuition Scholarships to qualifying representatives of government, consumer advocate organizations, academics, students, representatives of health services research organizations, and those in employment transition.
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Sanjay Doddamani, MD
Founder and Chief Executive Officer, GuideHealth; Former Cofounder & CEO, UpStream; Former Senior Advisor, CMS Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation, Dallas, TX |
Mary Beth Donahue, MPP
President and Chief Executive Officer, Better Medicare Alliance; Former Executive Vice President, Advocacy and Operations, AHIP; Former Chief of Staff, Secretary Donna E. Shalala, US DHHS, Washington, DC |
Gabriel Drapos
Chief Operating Officer, Pearl Health; Expert, Primary Venture Partners, East Brookfield, MA |
Theresa Dreyer, MP
Chief Executive Officer, Health Care Transformation Task Force; Former Lead, Value Based Care, Association of American Medical Colleges; Former Model Lead, CMS (Obama), Washington, DC |
Seth Edwards, MHA
Managing Director & Vice President of Strategy, Innovation and Population Health, Premier Inc., Charlotte, NC
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Mark Fendrick, MD
Director, V-BID Center: Professor of Internal Medicine, School of Medicine and Professor of Health Management, School of Public Health, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI |
Navid Farzad
Managing Partner, Frist Cressey Ventures; Board, Nashville Health Care Council, RightMove Health, Thrive Health Tech, Oshi Health, SpectrumAi, Psych Hub, Nashville, TN |
Dawn Francis, MD, MHS
Medical Director, Finance and Digital Products, Center for Digital Health, Mayo Clinic, Ponte Vedra Beach, FL |
Brendan Fulmer
Vice President, CareBridge; Former Advisor to the Secretary, HHS; Former Senior Advisor, CMS, Nashville, TN |
David Gellis, MD, MBA
CEO Arches Medical Rhode Island; Former VP & National Medical Director, Medicare Population Health, One Medical, Boston, MA
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Jeff Giullian, MD MBA
Chief Medical Officer, DaVita Kidney Care; Former Chairman, Healthcare Payment Committee, Renal Physicians Association, Denver, CO |
Caroline Goldzweig, MD
Vice President and Chief Medical Officer, Cedars-Sinai Medical Group; Chief Medical Officer, Cedars-Sinai Medical Care Foundation, Los Angeles, CA |
Joe Hafner, CRC, CPC
Vice President of Risk Adjustment, Upperline Health; Former Director of Risk Adjustment, Millennium Physician Group, Millennium Physician Group, North Port, FL |
George Hart, MD
Former Chief Medical Officer, Interwell Health; Former President, Metrolina Nephrology Associates, PA, Charlotte, NC |
Paul Hendley, CSM, ASPO
Assistant Vice President, Value-based Care, Blue Cross North Carolina, Durham, NC
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Jennifer Holloman, MHA, MBA
Director of Policy, American Hospital Association; Former Acting Chief of Virtual Health, US Army Office of The Surgeon General, Washington, DC |
Erin Hurlburt, MD
Chief Medical Officer Population Health Services, Lumeris; Former Chief Medical Officer, Bon Secours Mercy Health, Mason, OH |
Julia Ivanova, MBA
Senior Vice President of Growth and Partnerships, Thyme Care; Former SVP Business Development, Value Based Care & Payor Solutions Group, US Renal Care, San Francisco, CA |
Danielle Lloyd, MPH
Senior Vice President, Private Market Innovations & Quality Initiatives, America's Health Insurance Plans; Former Senior Associate Director, American Hospital Association, Washington, DC |
Dana McCalley, MBA
Vice President of Value-Based Care, Navina; Former Director of Quality & Risk Adjustment, Honest Medical Group, North Port, FL
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Renee McLaughlin, MBA, MD, FACS
National Medical Senior Director, Value-based Care, Cigna; Chairs the AHIP Value-Based Care Work Group, Chattanooga, TN |
Somaieh McMullan
Senior Director, Payment Policy, Premier Inc., Washington, DC |
Debra Ness, MS
Health and Economic Policy Consultant, Debra L Ness Consulting; Former President, National Partnership for Women & Families, Rockville, MD |
Stephen W. Nuckolls, MA
Chief Executive Officer, Coastal Carolina Health Care, PA; Former Chief Financial Officer, Atlantic Integrated Health, Inc., New Burn, NV |
Philip M. Oravetz, MD, MPH, MBA
Chief Population Health Officer, Ochsner Health; Former Senior Medical Director, Mills Peninsula Medical Group, New Orleans, LA
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Andrea Osborne, MSc
Chief Operating Officer, On Belay Health Solutions; Former SVP, ACO Operations & Delegated Services, VillageMD, Carnel, IN |
Zac Oty
Enterprise Solutions Engineer, Navina; Former Solutions Engineer, Aledade, Inc, Columbus, OH |
Stephen Parodi, MD
Executive Vice President, The Permanente Medical Group and The Permanente Federation, San Francisco, CA |
Jerry Penso, MD, MBA
President and Chief Executive Officer, American Medical Group Association; Former Medical Director, Continuum of Care, Sharp Healthcare, New Alexandria, VA |
Timothy Pflederer, MD
Chief Medical Officer, Evergreen Nephrology; Former President, RenalCare Associates SC and Illinois Kidney Disease and Hypertension Center, Peoria, IL
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Hoangmai (Mai) Pham, MD, MPH
Founder and President, Institute for Exceptional Care; Former VP, Provider Alignment Solutions, Anthem; Former Chief Innovation Officer, CMMI, Washington, DC |
Kim Phan, MBA
Founder and Chief Executive Officer, CareConnectMD; Former Co-Founder & CEO, HealthEssentials, Santa Ana, CA |
Melanie (Gleiman) Phelps, DrPH, JD
Senior Advocacy Advisor, Health System Transformation, American Heart Association; Former SVP, North Carolina Medical Society, Wilmington, NC |
Jon Phillips, MBA
Managing Director, Head of Venture Capital and Private Equity, First Trust Capital Partners; Founder and Managing Director, A1 Digital Health Ventures, Sarasota, FL |
Aisha Pittman, MPH
Senior Vice President of Government Affairs, National Association of ACOs; Former Assistant Vice President, Quality, Centerlight Health System, Washington, DC
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Jennifer Podulka, MPAff
Senior Vice President of Federal Policy, America's Physician Groups; Former Senior Policy Analyst, MedPAC, Washington, DC |
Megan Reyna, MSN, RM
Chief Operating Officer, Population Health, Bon Secours Mercy Health; Former Group Vice President, Population Health, Advocate Health, Cincinnati, OH |
William (Will) Robinson
Senior Vice President Accountable Care, HarmonyCares; Former Acting Deputy Director, Division of Outpatient Care, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, Portland, ME |
Valinda Rutledge, MBA
Executive Vice President, Policy & Advocacy, America's Physician Groups; Former Group Director, Patient Care Model Group & BPCI Lead, CMS (Obama), Washington, DC |
Randall L. Rutta, MA
CEO, National Health Council; Board, Patient Focused Medicines Development, Partnership to Fight Chronic Disease & Medical Device Innovation Consortium, Washington, DC
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Ravi Sachdev
Partner, Clayton, Dubilier & Rice; Founder and Director and Board Vice Chair, agilon, New York, NY |
William Shrank, MD, MSHS
Chief Executive Officer, Aradigm; Venture Partner, Andreessen Horowitz; Former CMO, Humana; Former Director of Innovation, CMMI, Washington, DC |
Samuel A. Skootsky, MD
Chief Population Health Officer, UC Health; Chief Medical Officer, UCLA Health; Professor of Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
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Linda Stevenson, CHCIO, CDH-E, PMP, MBA
Chief Digital Information Officer, Fisher-Titus Health, Norwalk, OH |
Imelda Tavas MD, MBA
Chief Administrative Officer, Essen Health Care; Advisory Board, NYREACH, New York, NY |
Sophia Tripoli, MPH
Senior Director of Health Policy, Families USA; Former Project Officer, State Innovation Group, Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation, Washington, DC
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