Medicare Advantage: Rethinking Payer-Provider Relationships to Advance Health
Thursday, April 30, 2026
8 a.m. - 6 p.m. ET
JHU Bloomberg Center, 555 Pennsylvania Ave NW, Washington, DC
This one-day symposium will catalyze conversations about the future of Medicare Advantage (MA) among leaders from industry, policy, clinical practice, and academia. We will examine how payer–provider relationships can evolve to deliver better outcomes for beneficiaries and taxpayers. Through patient stories, scholarly insights, industry innovation, and bipartisan policy discussion, participants will explore practical paths forward to ensure MA meets its promise of value, access, and quality.
MEET OUR MODERATORS
Melinda Buntin
Amit Jain
Liz Fowler
Paul Jacobs
Cybele Bjorkland
PANELISTS
Esteemed Panelists to be announced soon
*Speakers subject to change up until the day of the event*
KEYNOTE SPEAKER
To be announced closer to the event
The Hopkins Business of Health Initiative (HBHI) integrates scholarship across Johns Hopkins University - through a partnership between the Carey Business School, Bloomberg School of Public Health, School of Nursing, and School of Medicine - around a shared vision of a healthier America, supported by an affordable and equitable, high-value health system. In pursuit of this vision, our work focuses on the role of business and incentives through rigorous, objective, non-partisan, interdisciplinary research. Learn more about HBHI here.
