VIRTUAL ONLINE VIDEO - LIVE AND ARCHIVED

HERITAGE VALUE-BASED CARE CONFERENCE SERIES



The Fifth Virtual Value-Based Payment Summit
Held in Conjunction with the Fourth Health Care Value Week
VIRTUAL ONLINE VIDEO - LIVE AND ARCHIVED
March 2-6, 2026

GOVERNMENT KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Stephanie Carlton*
Deputy Administrator and Chief of Staff, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services; Former Partner, McKinsey & Company; Former Republican Staff, US Senate Finance Committee; Former Principal Health Advisor, Jeb Bush’s 2016 Presidential Campaign, Washington, DC
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
*Subject to final ethics approval.

FEATURED FACULTY

Syed Sumair Akhtar, MD, MHCDS
Chief Clinical Officer, Strive Health; Former Vice President, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota, Chicago, IL
Julie Barnes, JD
Founder and Principal, Maverick Health Policy; Former Director of Health Policy, Bipartisan Policy Center; Former Acting Director, New America Foundation, Arlington, VA
Marc Berg, PhD
Head of Value Based Care, Ennoble Care; Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Penn Ave Health ACO, Washington DC
Adam Boehler
Founder & Managing Director, Rubicon Founders; Former CEO, International Development Finance Corporation; Former Deputy Administrator and Director, Center for Medicare, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (Trump 1), Nashville, TN
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
Mike Cheek
President & Chief Executive Officer, SNP Alliance; Former SVP Reimbursement and Market Strategy, American Health Care Association; Former Director of Medicaid Long Term Care, Washington DC, Washington DC
Ken Cohen, MD, FACP
Executive Director of Translational Research, Optum Health; Former Chief Medical Officer, New West Physicians, Golden, CO
Natalie Davis, MA
Cofounder and CEO, United States of Care; Former Senior Advisor to Andy Slavitt, CMS Administrator; Acting Director, Transparency, Consumer Support Group, CCIAO, CMS, Washington, DC
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; Board Secretary, American Medical Association, San Francisco, CA
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 Department of Health and Human Services, 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, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (Obama), Washington, DC
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
Brendan Fulmer
Vice President, CareBridge; Former Advisor to the Secretary, HHS; Former Senior Advisor, CMS, Nashville, TN
Mollie Gelburd, JD
Senior Director Delivery System and Payment Transformation, America’s Health Insurance Plans; Former Associate Director of Government Affairs, MGMA, Washington, DC
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
George Hart, MD
Chief Medical Officer, Interwell Health; Former President, Metrolina Nephrology Associates, PA, Charlotte, NC
Paul Henley, CSM, ASPO
Assistant Vice President, Value -based Care, Blue Cross North Carolina, Durham, NC

Jennifer Holloman, MHA, MBA
Senior Associate Director of Policy, American Hospital Association; Former Acting Chief of Virtual Health, US Army Office of The Surgeon General, Washington, DC
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
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
Renee McLaughlin, MBA, MD, FACS
National Medical Senior Director, Value-based Care, Cigna; Chairs the AHIP Value-Based Care Work Group, Chattanooga, TN
Debra Ness, MS
Health and Economic Policy Consultant, Debra L Ness Consulting; Former President, National Partnership for Women & Families, Rockville, MD
Philip M. Oravetz, MD, MPH, MBA
Chief Population Health Officer, Ochsner Health; Former Senior Medical Director, Mills Peninsula Medical Group; Former CMO, Palo Alto Medical Foundation, New Orleans, LA
Andrea Osborne, MSc
Chief Operating Officer, On Belay Health Solutions; Former SVP, ACO Operations & Delegated Services, VillageMD, Carnel, IN
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
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 Senior Vice President, Health System Innovation, North Carolina Medical Society, Wilmington, NC
Aisha Pittman, MPH
Senior Vice President of Government Affairs, National Association of ACOs; Former Assistant Vice President, Quality, Centerlight Health System, Washington, DC
William (Will) Robinson
Senior Vice President Accountable Care, HarmonyCares; Former Acting Deputy Director, Division of Outpatient Care, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, Portland, OR
Lauren Riplinger, JD
Vice President, Policy and Government Affairs, American Health Information Management Association; Former Chief of Staff/Senior Policy Advisor, House Budget Committee, US House of Representatives, Washington, DC
Valinda Rutledge, MBA
Executive Vice President, Policy and Advocacy, America’s Physician Groups; Former Group Director, Patient Care Model Group and BPCI Lead, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (Obama), Washington, DC
Randall L. Rutta, MA
Chief Executive Officer, National Health Council; Board, Patient Focused Medicines Development, Partnership to Fight Chronic Disease & Medical Device Innovation Consortium, Washington, DC
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
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
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

FEATURING THE VALUE-BASED SUMMIT ADVANCED VIRTUAL STREAMING PLATFORM