The Future of Value-Based
Care & Risk Contracting
Nashville, TN | March 11-12th, 2026
Arbital Health is hosting an exclusive, invite-only summit, bringing together 150+ top thought leaders dedicated to solving the toughest challenges in risk-based healthcare. Connect with industry peers, learn what’s truly working, and leave inspired and better equipped to succeed in the next chapter of value-based care.
Executives from provider and payer organizations, VBC enablers, digital health companies, and policymakers will come together for candid discussions on the realities of risk contracting, scale, and accountability—including the emerging role AI is playing in VBC execution.
We’re thrilled to have you join us for this incredible event and can’t wait to connect in person!
Dynamic discussions exploring:
Keeping It Real in VBC: Where ROI Actually Shows Up
CMS & CMMI Policy Landscape: What’s New for 2026
AI Ownership Across Providers, Payers, and Platforms
AI at the Point of Care—From Data to Clinical Decisions
What It Takes to Win in Specialty Value-Based Care
The Endgame for Value-Based Care: Who Wins, Who Loses, and What Must Exist to Scale
March 11-12, 2026
Nashville: A Hub for Healthcare Innovation
Nashville is a powerhouse in the healthcare industry, home to a dynamic network of providers, payers, and innovators. With a rich history of healthcare leadership and a thriving ecosystem, we’re excited to host our summit in this vibrant city and can’t wait to see you there!
Who's Attending?
We’re bringing together a powerhouse group of industry leaders shaping the future of value-based care and risk contracting. This invite-only summit will feature executives from across the healthcare landscape—including payers, VBC enablers, digital health innovators, and policymakers.
Aneesh Chopra
Former Chief Technology Officer of the United States
Emily Brower
Bennett Graham
Dr. Ian Duncan
Christine Logar
Mark Gwynne
Nicole Bradberry
Eric Tanner
Sam Deshpande
Rhonda Henschel
Agenda
Day 1 - Wednesday, March 11th
| 6:00 → 8:00pm |
Welcome Reception |
Day 2 - Thursday, March 12th
Networking Breakfast & Coffee
Keynote Address: Keynote Address: How AI, Operating Models, and Governance Are Reshaping the Future of Value-Based Care
Keeping It Real: Where ROI Actually Shows Up in VBC and AI Use (and Where It Doesn’t)
A no-spin conversation on what’s truly generating returns in value-based care today, why margins are getting squeezed, how AI is changing the economics in real (not hype-driven) ways, and the hard pivots payers and providers must make for VBC to be economically sustainable.
Breakout Session A: Prompting AI for Real VBC Financial Decisions
An interactive session on how to work with AI that understands VBC context. We will explore how to connect contracts, risk adjustment, utilization, and financial exposure into outputs that make sense to finance, ops, and anyone else who has to explain the numbers later.
Breakout Session B: AI at the Point of Care — From Data to Clinical Decisions
This panel explores what it takes to use AI in real care settings and how AI-driven decision support improves outcomes, where it creates friction, and how clinical AI has to perform when care quality and financial risk are tightly linked.
Networking Break
Owning the Strategy: Who Controls AI as a Healthcare Organization Taking Risk?
When ACOs, risk enablers, and health plans take on risk, AI stops being just another vendor decision. This panel digs into who really controls intelligence across providers, payers, EHRs, and data platforms, and why those choices shape leverage, differentiation, and financial upside down the line.
Lunch
Fireside Chat with Gov. Tommy Thompson
Policy Landscape: What’s New for 2026
A no-nonsense read on what policy trends are actually changing in 2026. We will separate meaningful shifts from background noise and talk through how providers and payers should be preparing now to stay ahead of upcoming shifts.
Networking Break
Breakout Session A: What It Takes to Win in Specialty Value-Based Care
Specialty value-based care is where complexity and cost collide. Leaders across oncology, MSK, ESRD, and cardiac care break down what is working, where scale starts to wobble, and how they are managing risk in populations that do not forgive sloppy execution.
Breakout Session B: Construction of a Successful VBC Contract
The initial construction of a value-based contract can make or break its success. VBC leaders share lessons learned and discuss key considerations as they break down the construction of a successful value-based contract.
Fireside Chat: The Endgame for Value-Based Care: Who Wins, Who Loses, and What Must Exist to Scale
A big picture closing conversation between Tim Smith, Chief Actuary at Arbital Health and Juliette Price, Chief Solutions Officer at HSG on why value-based care still has not broken through at scale, despite years of pilots, policy, and tech investment. They will discuss shifting risk dynamics, structural friction, and why shared infrastructure—not more tools—may decide who advances and who stalls.