The 2025 Innovations in Value-Based Care Conference occurred on October 23, 2025. Value based care continues to transform how we deliver, measure, and experience health care. This conference is designed to bring together providers, payers, and innovators to engage in critical conversations about how we can collectively drive transformation forward.
2025 Innovations in Value-Based Care Conference : Harnessing Risk to Deliver Results
Conference Agenda
Morning Keynote Remarks
Rushika Fernandopulle, MD, Liza Health, CEO
How Do You Solve a Problem Like Attribution?
Prior to the widespread adoption of value based care, attribution was a pesky administrative burden, but with more patients and dollars shifting into risk arrangements, attribution has become the top question providers and payer must wrestle with and get right in order to excel in value based care.
This panel will explore the ways payers, providers, and aggregators have confronted the thorny topic of attribution and crafted strategies to best understand, manage, and optimize patient attribution. We’ll also explore what are the boundaries of how we currently think about attribution and what might the future hold in new models or arrangements.
Greg Allen, HSG, Senior Advisor (Moderator)
Pam Mattel, Coordinated Behavioral Care, CEO
Rich Almada, CareAbout Health, Chief Strategy Officer
Thomas Meixner, Cope Health Solutions , Principal and VBC Finance Lead
Maulik Trivedi, AICNY ACO, Chief Medical Officer
Joseph Conte, Staten Island Performing Provider System, Executive Director
To Intermediary or Not? That is the Question
Providers of all types on the journey to value based care must often ask themselves the question—go it alone or partner? Often times, single provider groups or payers cannot achieve their value based goals alone and turn to partnership as a tool to achieve their value based care goals, be it around contracting, technology, or operationalizing risk.
This panel will explore the challenges and opportunities of partnership in value based care arrangements, from third-party aggregators to joint-ventures amongst provider groups.
Juliette Price, Helgerson Solutions Group, Chief Solutions Officer (Moderator)
Nicholas Youngstrom, SOMOS Innovation, Chief Executive Officer
Brittany Silvestri, Hudson Headwaters Health Network, Chief Operating Officer
Dupe Ajayi, Maimonides Medical Center, AVP Ambulatory Transformation
Michael Kopko, Pearl Health, CEO
James Sinkoff, Sun River Health, Deputy CEO and CFO
To Intermediary or Not? That is the Question
The road to value often begins with contract negotiation, but all risk holders know that the real challenge arrives with the operationalization of the value based arrangements. From managing clinical and financial data to changing care pathways, it’s the execution of value that separates winners from losers in risk deals.
This panel will explore the various functions organizations need to think about as they build or buy their way to operationalizing value based care.
Sameer Kalarn, HSG, Associate Consultant (Moderator)
Michelle Leslie, MaxHealth, CEO
Gabrielena Alcala, HSG, Senior Advisor, Risk Adjustment
Tassanee Khouri, Arbital Health, VP, Commercial
Raj Lakhanpal, SpectraMedix, CEO
With the continued focus on lowering readmission rates and variation in outcomes associated with inpatient use, the post-acute space along with specialty care is finding new ways to craft value propositions and contribute to lowering total cost of care and improved outcomes for risk-bearing entities. Continued focus on bundles and hospital-based episodes such as the new CMMI TEAM model creates new opportunity for these types of providers in the value based ecosystem.
This panel will explore exciting innovations in post-acute and specialty care that help risk entities manage important moments of care.
Jason Helgerson, HSG, Founder & CEO (Moderator)
Bill Nordmark, President & CEO, Enlace Health
Susan Mani, Humana, AVP Clinical Strategy & Operations
Josh Klein, Emerest and Royal Care, Chief Executive Officer
Managing Moments of Transition: Post-Acute and Specialty Providers as Partners for Value
Afternoon Keynote Remarks
Jennifer Bright, International Consortium for Health Outcomes Measurement, Inc., President & CEO
Fireside Chat with Miki Kapoor
During the session,Miki Kapoor, incoming CEO of PPL –New York’s statewide FI--will discuss value based care opportunities for partnership, including Managed Long-Term Care, MAP, Medicare Advantage, and CMS’s GUIDE Program.
PPL is a critical player in long-term care across the nation, as the largest fiscal intermediary serving 21 states. Under Miki’s leadership, the company is looking to partner with organizations to improve outcomes and lower costs for individuals enrolled in Medicare and Medicaid.
Jason Helgerson, HSG, Founder & CEO (Moderator)
Miki Kapoor, Public Partnerships LLC (PPL), Chief Executive Officer
Expanding Reach: Creating Value Outside of Clinical Settings
While value based care arrangements can bring flexibility to current clinical models of care, patients still spend the majority of their lives outside of clinical settings, where innovative approaches to clinical management can have outsized impact on stubborn spending and utilization trends.
This panel will explore novel approaches to using wearables, remote patient monitoring, hospital at home, and social care interventions inside a patient’s home, community, lifestyle to achieve better outcomes.
Juliette Price, Helgerson Solutions Group, Chief Solutions Officer (Moderator)
Patrick Blair, InnovAge, CEO
Sumir Sahgal, MD, Essen Health Care, Founder and Chief Medical Officer
Sharon Samjitsingh, Health Care Originals, Inc., CEO
Benjamin Kaska, Healthcare in Action, Chief of Integrated Care Delivery
Official Conference Journal 2025
Explore the official event journal featuring keynote highlights, expert interviews, industry insights, partner perspectives, and the major trends discussed during the conference.
