Southeast Regional In-Person Meeting Agenda
Cary, NC
February 12, 2026
8:00am – 3:00pm ET
Regional Meetings | Meeting Details | Agenda | Hotel | Meeting Location
| Time | Content | Speaker(s) |
|---|---|---|
| 8:00 am – 8:30 am | Registration | |
| 8:30 am – 8:45 am | Welcome and Introduction | Emily Brower CEO, NAACOS |
| 8:45 am – 9:30 am | Alphabet Soup: Understanding New Models NAACOS’ government relations team will review our priorities for advancing accountable care across all lines of business, including a deeper dive into new CMMI models and recent policy developments. Learn what these changes mean for your value-based care strategy—and how NAACOS is advocating on your behalf. | Aisha Pittman, MPH Senior Vice President, Government Affairs, NAACOS |
| 9:30 pm – 10:15 am | Medicaid Federal Policy and North Carolina’s Unique Approach This session will provide an overview of the Medicaid program and the policy and payment tools states can use to deliver high-value care. Examining North Carolina as a case study, the presentation will highlight the state’s innovative approaches for improving whole-person health and controlling costs. | Samantha Repka, MSPH Policy Research Associate, Duke-Margolis Institute for Health Policy Katie Huber, MPH, Policy Research Associate, Duke-Margolis Institute for Health Policy |
| 10:15 am – 10:25 am | Break | |
| 10:25 am – 11:15 am | From Interoperability to Intelligence: How Lifepoint Operationalized AI Across its ACOs This session offers a firsthand look at how Lifepoint ACOs moved beyond fragmented systems to operationalize AI across care delivery and population health. They will share use cases showing how interoperable, longitudinal data enables precision-driven insights that improve productivity, prioritize risk, and guide proactive care. The session also examines the underlying foundation required to support this approach, highlighting why AI-ready data and workflows are essential for delivering predictive and scalable impact. | Carol Ann Hudson AVP, Strategic and Clinical Operations Population Health Lifepoint Health Shardul Mehta Clinical Solutions Architect Persivia |
| 11:15 am – 12:00 pm | Post-Acute Care Integrating SNFs and Home Health into Value-Based Care Pathways Learn best practices for coordinating transitions of care across agencies to reduce readmissions and improve patient outcomes. Explore how data-sharing and communication processes strengthen collaboration with post-acute partners. | TBD |
| 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm | Lunch | |
| 1:00 pm – 1:30 pm | Aligning Systemwide Value-Based Care Goals with Practice Incentives to Improve Medicare AWV Performance This session demonstrates how a healthcare system aligned systemwide value-based care goals with practice-level financial and operational incentives to improve BCBS Medicare Advantage Annual Wellness Visit (AWV) completion rates. Information will provide how multiple entities were brought together and how data and best practice sharing created accountability and sustained improvement in AWV performance. | Beth Caviness, RN, MHL HCS Regional Director Innovations Population Management, UNC Health Alliance |
| 1:30 pm – 2:00 pm | Aligning System Wide Value-Based Care Goals Through Intentional Practice Engagement Methods for aligning organizational goals through practice and provider-level engagement to drive transformation. | Erica Robinson Director, Population Health & Performance WakeMed Key Community Care |
| 2:00 pm – 2:50 pm | Beyond Quality Reporting During this session we will review Advocate Health’s Quality and Condition Management & Documentation (CMD) framework designed to improve care coordination and outcomes. We will review how structured department design, Management Action Plans (MAP), and Hoshin planning in high reliability principles support accountability. The session will also share practical lessons learned from MSSP quality reporting, including eCQMs, MIPS CQMs, and Medicare CQMs, for quality strategies. | Wilson Gabbard, MBA, FACHE Vice President of Quality and Condition Management, Managed Health – Value Based Performance, Advocate Health Care Tresa Shaw, MSN, RN Director, Quality Improvement Operations-NC and GA Managed Health-Value Based Performance, Advocate Health Care |
| 2:50 pm – 3:00 pm | Closing Remarks | Melody Danko-Holsomback Vice President of Education, NAACOS |