Last year’s HMA conference brought together healthcare leaders to confront a changing landscape across Medicare, Medicaid, and the Marketplace. The agenda reflected the issues shaping the industry in real time: public policy in motion, the future of value-based care, behavioral health innovation, digital transformation, population health, and the partnerships needed to turn strategy into results. From keynote and plenary conversations to focused workshops and collaborative small-group sessions, attendees were immersed in practical discussions about what comes next.
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Those conversations matter even more now. Join HMA’s annual conference, US Healthcare 2026: Signals, Signs & Flashing Lights, October 5–7 in New Orleans. This year’s event is designed for executives and leaders across providers, payers, government, and the organizations that enable care delivery, with a clear focus on helping attendees navigate financial pressure, performance demands, and AI-driven change. Early registration is already underway, with early-bird pricing available through August 7.
If you look back at last year’s agenda, you can see how well it anticipated this moment. In three fast-moving days, this year’s conference will help attendees read policy and market signals earlier and translate them into decisions, manage risk and costs while protecting outcomes and access, learn what is working to sustain systems of care amid uncertainty, how to apply AI and emerging technology through real operational and clinical use cases, and build relationships through structured networking across sectors. These priorities come to life across four central themes: managing risk and costs, sustaining systems of care, AI and innovation, and partnerships and collaboration. Together, they reflect exactly what healthcare leaders need now: practical strategies for a more complex environment, clearer paths to stability, measurable approaches to innovation, and stronger models for delivery and community impact.
The 2026 conference is not just another industry event. It is an opportunity to step away from day-to-day demands and engage with peers facing the same questions about cost, risk, performance, access, and technology adoption. Whether you lead strategy, operations, policy, clinical transformation, product development, or partnerships, you will leave with practical insights you can put to work right away. The value is not only in hearing what is next, but in understanding what to do now.
Attendees this year can expect the same cross-sector depth that stood out last year, paired with even greater urgency. The forces affecting Medicare, Medicaid, Marketplace, and adjacent programs are not moving in isolation. Payment reform connects to access. Digital transformation connects to quality and workforce realities. Behavioral health connects to community capacity, and long-term sustainability, and governmental policy changes drive all of the above. The organizations that succeed will be the ones that can see these connections early and act on them thoughtfully.
Last year’s conference showed the value of bringing more than 350 policymakers, providers, payers, advisors, innovators, and community leaders into the same conversation. This year offers the chance to continue that conversation at exactly the right time. If you want insight that is strategic, grounded, and immediately relevant to the decisions in front of you, come join us in New Orleans this October.
Register now to take advantage of Early Bird pricing, which ends August 7.