Join us Sunday, September 13 to kick off Healthcare Sessions in style at our Welcome Reception. It’s the perfect chance to make connections, reconnect with colleagues, and set the stage for an impactful two days of programming.
Sponsored by Bank of America & Polsinelli
Moderator: Jon Hilton, Shareholder and AI Practice Leader
Panelists: Zaw Thet, Co-Founder and CEO, Exer | Carl Whitmer, CEO, ArchWell Health | Jami Youmans, Founder and CEO, The Intentional Company
Breakout Session sponsored by LBMC
Featuring: Larry Bucshon, Senior Policy Advisor, Holland & Knight | Brent Hill, Partner, Holland & Knight | Regan Parker, CEO, Association for Responsible Healthcare Investment | Josh Peck, Chief Development Officer, Solaris Health Partners
Overview: In the last year, the healthcare industry has witnessed significant shifts in policy at the federal level, particularly since the inauguration of Donald J. Trump, and at the state level. At a federal level, changes to Medicaid and Medicare reimbursement, NIH funding, and other regulatory matters—including implications of the One Big Beautiful Bill (1BBB)—are impacting how deals get done. At a state level, nearly 15 states have enacted legislation in the last year that will impact how healthcare deals get done in those states. This session will analyze how current and proposed legislative changes, including those affecting Medicaid reimbursement, staffing mandates, and other areas, are impacting deal valuations, due diligence processes, and strategic decision-making in healthcare M&A.
Breakout Session sponsored by Holland & Knight
Featuring: Timothy Murphy, Member of the Firm, EBG & Dan Fahey Member of the Firm, EBG
Breakout Session sponsored by Epstein Becker Green
Moderated by Shanna Adamic, Director, Oracle Health Executive Content and Oracle Video
Featuring: Matt Bragstad, CMO, Alight
Breakout Session sponsored by Alight
Featuring: Angela Humphreys, Chair, Healthcare Practice Group, Co-Chair Healthcare Private Equity Group, Bass, Berry & Sims & Mark Francis, Global Co-Head of Healthcare, Houlihan Lokey
Breakout Session sponsored by Bass, Berry & Sims
Featuring: Jay Hardcastle, Partner, Bradley | Ty Howard, Partner, Bradley | Tim Stewart, Partner, Academic Health Systems Practice Lead, Jarrard, Inc
Breakout Session sponsored by Bradley Arant Boult Cummings
Featuring: Coming Soon
Overview: As healthcare delivery evolves, the traditional hospital model is being increasingly supplemented by alternative care settings such as urgent care centers, telehealth platforms, and home-based care. The shift to these sites of care delivery requires a reevaluation of reimbursement models to ensure sustainability and equitable access. This roundtable will explore how changes in reimbursement policies impact the expansion and integration of new care delivery sites and how healthcare organizations can adapt to these shifts.
Roundtable sponsored by Bank of America
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Roundtable sponsored by Shearwater
Featuring: Coming Soon
Overview: As healthcare delivery evolves, the traditional hospital model is being increasingly supplemented by alternative care settings such as urgent care centers, telehealth platforms, and home-based care. The shift to these sites of care delivery requires a reevaluation of reimbursement models to ensure sustainability and equitable access. This roundtable will explore how changes in reimbursement policies impact the expansion and integration of new care delivery sites and how healthcare organizations can adapt to these shifts.
Roundtable sponsored by Bank of America
Featuring: Coming Soon
Roundtable sponsored by Shearwater
Leaders from the Nashville Health Care Council, Alight Solutions, Mamaya Health and Tembo Health will unveil game-changing announcements—from M&A deals to breakthrough research and transformative partnerships—during Monday’s lunch hour, with each reveal broadcast live throughout the venue to maximize impact and attract media coverage in a powerful drumbeat of innovation that could reshape the future of healthcare!
Interested in sharing your organization’s breaking news during Sessions? Contact Sarah Maxwell, VP of Brand and Operations, Nashville Health Care Council, Smaxwell@healthcarecouncil.com to discuss the complimentary opportunity.
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Moderated by Jed Brody, Managing Director and Head of Healthcare, Americas, Barclays
Against the backdrop of evolving CMS priorities and the growing momentum of the “Make America Healthy Again” movement, this panel will explore how the next chapter of healthcare investing is taking shape. Speakers will examine how political shifts, regulatory priorities, and national sentiment are influencing deal flow, valuations, and risk tolerance across the healthcare landscape. We’ll spotlight new opportunities for investment—particularly in areas aligned with CMS’s strategic direction, including primary care access, behavioral health, home-based care, and cost containment. The discussion will also cover how capital strategy is evolving for both investors and operators in light of these forces, and what healthcare leaders should be watching as the market prepares for a pivotal year in 2026.
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From pixie dust to animated heroes, The Walt Disney Company is highly regarded for its innovation and creativity, and the health and wellbeing of its cast members is no exception. This fireside chat will explore the company’s focus on their people and how their accessible healthcare ecosystem is both a model for employers and an example of the large and growing role that employers play in the healthcare ecosystem. As the largest “payor” in healthcare, employers like The Walt Disney Company are leaning in on improving outcomes, controlling healthcare costs, and improving experiences – all on behalf of their people, families, and communities.
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Moderated by Anne Hancock Toomey, President & Founding Partner, Jarrard Inc.
Healthcare is a complex sector addressing many complex care delivery challenges each day. Collaborations between diverse industry stakeholders can often advance unexpected solutions to these challenges, improving health systems’ operations, boosting access to innovative care, and enhancing patients’ and providers’ experiences. In this discussion, we’ll explore how health system leaders think about partnerships with their peer providers, emerging innovators and community conveners. This panel brings industry leaders to explore how they are redesigning care delivery, partnering across sectors, and creating scalable models that prioritize whole-person health. The discussion will highlight innovations in clinical models, investment opportunities, and operational strategies for care coordination in a value-driven environment.
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Moderated by Dan Peres, Group President, Modern Healthcare
Essence + Oura are redefining senior care by bringing real-time wearable data into Medicare Advantage plans, empowering patients, enabling providers to act earlier, and helping payers reduce costs while improving outcomes. Together, Oura’s focus on holistic health and Essence’s member-centered innovation creates a scalable model for payers and health systems alike to integrate wearable data into the patient journey, strengthening prevention, personalization, and continuity of care. Looking ahead, the Essence / Oura partnership reflects Tom’s vision for the industry, where wearable-driven insights and AI-powered analytics align with major policy shifts – unlocking new opportunities for health systems and payers to innovate, engage consumers, and shape the future of value-based care.
Sessions attendees are invited to an unforgettable evening with Oracle Health and Life Sciences in the CMA Theater, where the legendary Bluebird Cafe sets the stage. Songwriters Chris DeStefano and Tim Nichols will share their music in “the round” in an intimate, truly one-of-a-kind Nashville experience.
Hosted by: Oracle Health & Life Sciences
Healthcare’s shift beyond traditional facilities is accelerating. Demand for care delivered in the home, community, and virtual settings continues to grow. At the same time, innovators and investors face an increasingly complex policy environment. Recent actions such as the home health and hospice moratorium, evolving Medicare payment models, increased scrutiny of private investment in healthcare, and changing state and federal regulations have introduced new questions about how and where innovation can scale.
This roundtable will bring together healthcare operators, investors, innovators, and policymakers to explore how leaders are navigating regulatory uncertainty while continuing to build the next generation of care delivery models. Participants will discuss where they see opportunity, where policy may be creating unintended barriers to innovation, and what signals they are watching to determine where healthcare is headed next.
Featuring: Coming Soon
Overview: This panel offers a full-stack view of the shift from fee-for-service to value-based care, spanning how VBC changes day-to-day clinical operations, the finance/tax/deal side, and what gets funded and built next. The operator’s perspective grounds the discussion in the realities of running a VBC model at the point of care — smaller patient panels, outcomes-based incentives, and the operational challenges of scaling that approach across new markets. The investor/builder’s perspective adds the capital markets and policy lens, covering what makes a VBC platform fundable, where the market is headed (including full-risk and specialty-specific models), and how platforms get built, consolidated, and scaled over time.
Breakout Session sponsored by LBMC
Featuring: Coming Soon
Overview: Join Bass, Berry & Sims for an in-depth discussion on what lies ahead for healthcare private equity. With heightened regulatory oversight and new enforcement priorities from both federal and state agencies, investors face a more complex deal landscape than ever before. Recently passed and ongoing proposed regulations from multiple federal agencies will have significant impacts on those investing in healthcare. We have been closely following a few key areas impacting healthcare, and discussing with healthcare investors and executives across the country.
Breakout Session sponsored by Bass, Berry & Sims
Featuring: Coming Soon
Overview: Washington remains an important source of healthcare policy, but many of the most significant developments affecting providers and investors are taking place in state capitols. New legislation and regulatory activity are influencing healthcare transactions, ownership of provider organizations, artificial intelligence, telehealth, and access to care, often with significant operational implications. This session will examine the most notable state developments, place them in the context of federal activity, and explore what they mean for healthcare organizations operating across multiple jurisdictions.
Breakout Session sponsored by Holland & Knight
Featuring: Coming Soon
Overview: Health system executives are being asked to make decisions that will define their organizations for the next decade — and the playbook they inherited is being rewritten in real time. PE-backed competitors are moving faster and offering physicians economics that health systems struggle to match. Antitrust regulators are watching consolidation more closely than ever. Reimbursement is shifting under everyone’s feet. And the structure of partnerships — who to partner with, on what terms, and in what form — has never been more consequential. This session gives health system operators a frank look at where capital is moving, what it actually costs to compete, and how the most successful organizations are navigating the choice to compete, consolidate, or partner.
Breakout Session sponsored by Bradley
AI has moved from innovation theater to enterprise strategy, but many healthcare organizations continue to struggle to translate pilots and point solutions into measurable impact. This roundtable will focus on real world examples of where AI, automation and data infrastructure are actually driving top-line and bottom-line performance from administrative simplification and RCM to clinical documentation, patient access, navigation, utilization management, workforce productivity and care coordination.
The Journey to the Intelligent Health System: From AI Experimentation to Enterprise Impact
Healthcare is rapidly moving from AI experimentation to enterprise-scale deployment, requiring connected data, modern platforms, and trusted governance. Through industry insights and customer conversations, this session explores how organizations can modernize, govern AI responsibly, and advance care delivery, education, research, access, and community health. Attendees will leave with practical perspectives for building the Intelligent Health System and delivering measurable impact.
From Reimbursement Pressure to Operating Resilience: Reducing Friction Across the Provider-Payer Relationship
As reimbursement pressure intensifies and healthcare organizations face growing demands to manage costs and protect financial sustainability, reducing friction across the provider-payer relationship has become a critical business priority. This conversation will explore how providers, payers, and technology partners can reduce unnecessary complexity across prior authorization, claims, payment, documentation, and patient access while strengthening workforce capacity and the patient experience. Executives will examine where administrative and operational friction creates the greatest financial risk, how evolving reimbursement dynamics are reshaping enterprise strategy, and which opportunities offer the greatest potential to improve efficiency and resilience. The discussion will also consider how stronger collaboration and technology can help build a more sustainable and resilient operating model for the future.
Enjoy lunch, and hear the latest news shaping healthcare.
These announcements will feature timely industry updates, organizational announcements, and key developments from across the healthcare community, providing attendees with valuable insights and opportunities to stay informed and connected.
Sponsored by MEDITECH
State of the Industry: The Operating Reality of Healthcare in 2026
Featuring: Coming Soon
Overview: Healthcare is navigating a consequential period of change as shifting policy, rising cost pressures, new technologies and evolving models of care reshape the industry. This conversation will examine the forces driving healthcare today, what changes may prove most significant, and what executives and investors should be preparing for next.
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Overview: This panel explores how operators are thinking about the evolution of the core operating model inside the operating realities and technology advancements on the horizon. This discussion will cover system discipline, service-line strategy, labor optimization, supply chain performance, clinical variation reduction and stronger execution between the enterprise and the local market.
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Overview: Healthcare’s next phase of growth will be defined by the ability to deliver the right care in the right place at the right cost. This discussion will explore how provider organizations, outpatient operators, payors and care delivery innovators capitalize on the migration of care across settings. Panelists will discuss where policy and reimbursement are creating new opportunities, how partnerships are accelerating expansion, and what capabilities organizations must build to compete as site-of-care flexibility becomes a defining advantage for the next generation of healthcare.
Featuring: Coming Soon
Overview: True interoperability demands alignment across government, payers, providers, and platforms. This session will explore how CMS-aligned network commitments are fostering new forms of collaboration and where those partnerships are beginning to deliver meaningful improvements in access, transparency, and patient control.
Sessions attendees are invited to an unforgettable evening with Oracle Health and Life Sciences in the CMA Theater, where the legendary Bluebird Cafe sets the stage. Songwriters will share their music in “the round” in an intimate, truly one-of-a-kind Nashville experience.
Hosted by: Oracle Health & Life Sciences
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Moderated by Jon Kaplan, Managing Director & Senior Partner, Boston Consulting Group
Delivering care for the “whole person” requires rethinking how medical care, behavioral health, and consumer engagement intersect. This panel will explore the strategies and innovations shaping a more comprehensive and coordinated model of care, with a focus on practical solutions that drive measurable impact.
Whole Person Health: Building the Next Generation of Healthcare Platforms
Featuring: Coming Soon
Overview: Behavioral health is becoming foundational infrastructure for the future of healthcare. As health systems, payors, employers, and investors look to improve outcomes while lowering total cost of care, the ability to integrate behavioral, physical, and social health has become a defining competitive advantage.
This discussion will explore how leading organizations are embedding behavioral health across primary care, specialty care, virtual care, chronic disease management, and community-based delivery. Rather than focusing on clinical treatment models, panelists will examine the business strategies, partnerships, technology platforms, reimbursement models, and investment opportunities that are enabling whole-person care to scale.
Featuring: Coming Soon
Overview: The flow of capital into healthcare is shifting as investors reassess risk, scale, and return in a more constrained environment. This session will explore how consolidation, platform strategies, and new business models are reshaping the investment landscape—and what that means for operators.
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Overview: Patients with multiple, overlapping chronic conditions like kidney disease, diabetes, heart failure, behavioral health are the highest cost, lowest outcome cohort in healthcare. This panel is a practical discussion on what it takes to build a sustainable care model around high-need patients. The discussion will examine where the economics work today, where models are still too fragile, and what investors, payors and operators are learning about risk, attribution, care teams and outcomes.
Featuring: Coming Soon
Overview: What happens when every clinician, operator, and patient has access to intelligent, real-time digital assistance? In this forward-looking discussion, leaders on the frontlines of the world’s leading technologies explore how AI may redefine care teams, patient engagement, administrative work, clinical insight generation, and the economics of healthcare over the next five years.
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Moderated by Jon Kaplan, Managing Director & Senior Partner, Boston Consulting Group
Delivering care for the “whole person” requires rethinking how medical care, behavioral health, and consumer engagement intersect. This panel will explore the strategies and innovations shaping a more comprehensive and coordinated model of care, with a focus on practical solutions that drive measurable impact.
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Moderated by Jon Kaplan, Managing Director & Senior Partner, Boston Consulting Group
Delivering care for the “whole person” requires rethinking how medical care, behavioral health, and consumer engagement intersect. This panel will explore the strategies and innovations shaping a more comprehensive and coordinated model of care, with a focus on practical solutions that drive measurable impact.
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Moderated by Jon Kaplan, Managing Director & Senior Partner, Boston Consulting Group
Delivering care for the “whole person” requires rethinking how medical care, behavioral health, and consumer engagement intersect. This panel will explore the strategies and innovations shaping a more comprehensive and coordinated model of care, with a focus on practical solutions that drive measurable impact.
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Moderated by Paul Kusserow, Chairman, Amedisys
From fertility breakthroughs to maternal care innovations, women’s health is entering a period of unprecedented growth — yet stark gaps in access and outcomes remain. This panel brings together a fertility innovator, a leading women’s health CEO, and an investor fueling change to explore where innovation is happening fastest, how capital is driving progress, and how new policies — from postpartum Medicaid expansions to telehealth rules — are reshaping the market.
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Moderated by Leif Murphy, CEO, TeamHealth
Ambulatory care is one of the fastest growing segments in the healthcare market, expected to expand only further over the next 10 years. As consumers reach for convenience and outpatient settings, how can providers adapt to delivering care in new settings? In an increasingly competitive environment, we’ll hear from leaders in the space on their strategies to succeed, and what it takes from a clinical and operational perspective to scale in outpatient.
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Moderated by Ken Leonczyk, Jr., SVP, Enterprise Clients, Optum
This discussion will explore successful carveout business models and partnerships that lower healthcare costs.
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Moderated by David Feinberg, MD, Chairman, Oracle Health & Life Sciences
Over the next five years, healthcare systems will face unprecedented shifts in policy, technology, and patient expectations. This discussion brings together leading health system CEOs to share how they are positioning their organizations for long-term success—balancing innovation with operational excellence, advancing value-based care models, and investing in the workforce of the future. Attendees will gain insights into how visionary leadership can turn market disruptions into opportunities for lasting impact.
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Overview: Clinician burnout remains one of the most pressing challenges in healthcare today, exacerbated by growing patient demands, administrative burdens, and emotional stress. To build a sustainable healthcare workforce of the future, it’s essential to explore solutions that reduce clinician workload and improve job satisfaction. This roundtable will focus on strategies to address burnout, optimize workflow, and ensure that healthcare professionals can deliver high-quality care without compromising their well-being.
Roundtable sponsored by Athena Health
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Overview: Mental health has become a critical focus for both public health officials and private healthcare entities, especially with growing concerns around access to care and quality of services. Under new CMS leadership, new policy priorities may influence mental health strategies across the nation. This roundtable will examine how C-suite leaders in healthcare can prepare for these changes and continue advancing mental health care delivery in their organizations.
Roundtable sponsored by Polsinelli
Moderated by Natalie Trebes, VP, Strategic Insights and Executive Engagement, Advisory Board
An opportunity for Council Fellows Alumni and LHC Advisory Board to connect and strengthen professional relationships within their network.
Location: Omni Hotel Breakout Room (Electric), Floor 4.
