MD/MBA student and HBHI fellow James Buchanan asked a question at an event on entrepreneurship and health care innovation that sparked debate on transparency in health care pricing.
On December 16, 2025, CEO Mark Cuban, venture capitalist Bill Gurley, and Optum CEO Patrick Conway joined Johns Hopkins faculty and students for a conversation on careers, entrepreneurship, and the future of U.S. health care at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg Center in Washington, D.C.
Featuring Dr. Natalia Trayanova, Murray B. Sachs Professor in Biomedical Engineering at Johns Hopkins University and a Professor of Medicine at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
To explore how Medicare Advantage plans are incorporating caregiver support as a supplemental benefit and what this means for the future of care delivery, the Hopkins Business of Health Initiative (HBHI) collaborated with the Hopkins Economics of Alzheimer's Disease and Services (HEADS) Center to convene a panel discussion in this season of HBHI’s Conversations on the Business of Health, bringing together three critical perspectives: payers, providers, and community-based organizations.