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MACRA: Perspectives on What Worked in the 2015 Reform, What’s Missing, and Why It Matters Today The Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act (MACRA) was enacted in 2015, repealing the Sustainable Growth Rate formula and establishing a new framework for Medicare physician payment. As Congress revisits the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule and MACRA’s value-based incentives, […]

  Health insurance touches nearly every American, yet it remains one of the most misunderstood areas of health policy. The U.S. health insurance system is not a single, unified structure; it is a collection of distinct markets, each operating under its own rules, regulators, and incentives. Alliance audience research shows demand for accessible, foundational content […]

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Speaker: Dan Mendelson, MPP, Chief Executive Officer, Morgan Health (JPMorganChase)

Some of the most promising ideas in payment aren’t waiting on federal action; they’re already delivering results across states, employer markets, and delivery systems. Throughout the Alliance’s listening process, experts kept coming back to the same point: concrete examples of what’s working sharpen the policy conversation. Panelists will spotlight what these approaches have in common, […]

What does the payment landscape look like from inside the organizations navigating it every day, and what’s the one thing on the horizon more people should get smart on? From the vantage point of leaders building and negotiating within the current system, this session offers the candid, strategic perspective that traditional policy forums rarely capture, […]

Misconceptions about how payment works don’t just confuse the conversation, they can impede constructive policy conversation. At the Alliance’s 2026 Thought Leader Workshop, experts kept returning to the same blind spots, the ones that quietly steer debates off course before they begin. This panel brings together voices from insurance and system design, hospital policy, physician […]

For more than 15 years, the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) has served as the country’s primary testing ground for new payment models. The results have been instructive, complicated, and sometimes surprising. Leaders who designed and ran these models sit down to talk candidly about what worked, what didn’t, what caught them off […]

Speaker: Jaewon Ryu, M.D., J.D., CEO, Risant Health

2026 Signature Series Summit on Health Care Payment: Where We Are, Where We Are Going How we pay for health care shapes what care gets delivered, to whom, and at what cost. Yet the payment conversation in Washington often moves faster than the understanding behind it. The 2026 Signature Series Summit on Health Care Payment […]

2026 Signature Series Summit Welcome Reception Health care payment touches every corner of the system — and the people working to get it right are coming together. Join us the evening before the Signature Series Summit for a networking reception with colleagues, experts, and changemakers from across the health care and policy landscape. This FREE […]

Event Description Health care payment is not a single system, instead, it is a set of interconnected structures across drug, physician/provider, and hospital domains, each with its own logic, incentives, and players. When it comes to jurisdiction in Congress and the administration, it can seem even more complex. Through deep listening with experts and policymakers, […]