Booth Talks Schedule
Join us at our HIMSS booth for quick, insight-packed talks! Browse the schedule below to find sessions that fit your interests and stop by to connect with our experts.
Tuesday, March 10th
CMS announced the LEAD (Long-Term Enhanced ACO Design) Model in December 2025, with applications opening March 2026. This session details the current information available from CMMI providing attendees with a practical framework to understand LEAD and guide their organizations through participation decisions.
Speakers:
Thomas Klimek
Healthcare Analytics Manager, Milliman
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Pierre Cornell
Healthcare Analytics Director, Milliman
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Healthcare organizations are under increasing pressure to accelerate improved population health outcomes, appropriate utilization, and risk based contract success, yet many find that fragmented claims and clinical data limit their ability to do so. This live interview (with the Chief Medical Officer of Milliman MedInsight) explores what clinical data integration really means, why it is becoming foundational to modern healthcare analytics, and how integrating claims and clinical data enables more trusted insights, earlier intervention, and real workflow level action across clinical and administrative population health players.
Speaker:
Dr. Christopher Kodama, MD, MBA
Chief Medical Officer
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Healthcare organizations want AI that delivers value now without sacrificing trust, transparency, or governance. In this session, Milliman MedInsight will share how it is operationalizing AI today to accelerate access to trusted answers and boost productivity across analytics workflows.
The discussion will also explore what’s next for healthcare AI, the market trends shaping healthcare AI innovation in 2026, including the shift from pilots to enterprise‑scale adoption, stronger governance expectations, and the rise of autonomous, workflow‑embedded AI—where intelligence is built into data infrastructure and experienced through better decisions, not dashboards.
Speakers:
Vandana Bhardwaj
Principal, Senior Vice President, Strategic Innovation
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Chas Busenburg
Senior Manager Data & AI, Milliman MedInsight
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How ACOs are leveraging actuarial best practices to forecast performance at the aggregate and subgroup level and communicate these outcomes to key stakeholders in order to drive success.
Speaker:
Jonah Broulette
Principal and Consulting Actuary, Milliman
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Learn how Samantha Lewis, Director, Healthcare Business Intelligence and Population Health Analytics at Genesys PHO, drove ACO savings using targeted analytics and Milliman’s best in class Benchmarks. Samm will share how her organization identified cost drivers and turned insights into real savings.
Speakers:
Samantha Lewis
Director, Healthcare Business and Population Health Analytics, Genesys PHO
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Francesca Hammerstrom
General Manager, Value Based Care
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When your challenges include financial and care decisions, Milliman Advanced Risk Adjusters (MARA)® helps you face those challenges with confidence through better understanding of the needs and risks of your population. Gain valuable insights in value-based care (VBC) while using MARA’s Rising Risk technology.
Speakers:
Chris Murphy
Senior Sales Manager, Milliman
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Darin Muse
Principal and Managing Director, Milliman
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In this session, you’ll learn how to use ACO Builder’s financial forecasting tools to model different TIN configurations and participation options, helping you understand projected performance and risk before committing to a value-based arrangement. You’ll also see how the platform’s clinical benchmarking capabilities across MA and FFS Medicare populations can help you spot utilization patterns, identify areas of overuse, and find real opportunities to improve efficiency and savings.
Speaker:
Zach Davis
Chief Growth Officer, ACO Builder, Milliman
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Wednesday, March 11th
Risk adjustment is critical for fair compensation and proper resource allocation in value-based care, yet many organizations struggle to capture the full complexity of their patient populations. This session covers key strategies to transform risk adjustment from an annual coding exercise into ongoing intelligence that supports both financial sustainability and better patient care.
Speakers:
Thomas Klimek
Healthcare Analytics Manager, Milliman
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Nick Connors
Sales Engineering Lead
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The CMS Transforming Episode Accountability Model (TEAM) is live, and providers need to pay attention. This session will equip attendees with key action steps they can take to succeed under TEAM.
Speaker:
Pamela Pelizzari
Principal, Milliman
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Many ACOs and payer/provider teams have robust analytics yet still struggle to translate performance reporting into physician behavior change. This session lays out a concise and practical approach to cultivating physician engagement as a foundation for maximizing the impact of analytic investments such as physician scorecards that turn performance signals like contract KPIs into prioritized actions at the point of care. Join us to add to your tool kit for accelerating financially sustainable improvements to population health!
Speakers:
Dr. Christopher Kodama, MD, MBA
Chief Medical Officer
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Francesca Hammerstrom
General Manager, Value Based Care
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Healthcare organizations are entering a new era defined by frontier organizations that move beyond AI experimentation to enterprise‑scale, governed, and embedded intelligence. In this session, Milliman MedInsight and Microsoft explore what it means to become a frontier healthcare organization, where AI is operationalized across the enterprise to enrich workforce experiences, reinvent patient and member engagement, reshape core business processes, and accelerate innovation.
Attendees will learn how leading organizations are embedding AI directly into data platforms and workflows, shifting from visible tools to operational intelligence that is felt through better decisions, higher productivity and measurable impact. Learn how Microsoft’s Certified Software Designation for Healthcare AI helps establish trust in AI-enabled solutions, and how MedInsight is translating those principles into practice through an AI strategy focused on delivering reliable, actionable answers safely and at scale.
Speakers:
Kim Swafford
Industry Executive, Americas, Microsoft
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Iyibo Jack
Principal and Chief Product Officer
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Building a strong, compliant provider network is more important, and more complex than ever. The new Milliman Network Optimizer helps health plans, health systems, and regulators streamline network management, ensure access and adequacy, and drive better outcomes for patients.
Speaker:
John Kasey
Senior Healthcare Management Consultant, Milliman
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As Medicare Advantage and large-group markets tighten, leaders face pressure to explain performance quickly—but common benchmarks and “risk-adjusted” views often obscure what drives costs and outcomes.
In this 15-minute session, discover a practical approach that uses benchmarking, analytics, and trend decomposition to clarify key factors like morbidity, utilization, unit cost, and benefit design. Leave with a simple framework and examples to support pricing, performance management, and executive decisions.
Speaker:
Rong Yi
Principal, Milliman
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What changes when you can see 100% CMS member-level data across the market? Plans can understand how competitors are actually performing, detect performance shifts early, and anticipate cut point movement before Star results are finalized.
Speaker:
Hayley Rogers
Consulting Actuary, Milliman
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