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Seven convening projects led or co-led by HBHI core faculty are among the 28 endeavors selected for the 2026 Nexus Awards, Johns Hopkins University announced May 29. Every HBHI-connected award this year is a convening grant, funding the kind of cross-disciplinary gatherings the initiative was built to incubate.

More than 100 leaders from CMS, Congress, plans, providers, and academia spent the day working through one question: how should the relationship between Medicare Advantage payers and providers change to better serve patients, beneficiaries, and taxpayers? The program now enrolls 54% of Medicare beneficiaries and is absorbing the most significant payment recalibration in its 20-year history.

The authors argue that Maryland's next phase of payment reform must move beyond hospital global budgets to engage frontline clinicians in population health, outlining priorities for the new AHEAD model including population-based payments, expanded incentives, and regulatory modernization.