Join Advisory Board’s Rae Woods and Morghen Philippi and Optum’s Carol Chouinard as they examine the evolving dynamics of care decision-making and their implications for healthcare leaders. They’ll unpack how artificial intelligence is influencing patient decision-making, explore the emergence of new direct-to-consumer options, and provide actionable insights and practical guidance for navigating this rapidly changing landscape.

Demand for cardiac catheterization and electrophysiology (EP) procedures is outpacing many health systems’ capacity. This webinar digs into common barriers, such as clinician friction and suboptimal scheduling. It then presents actionable tactics and case studies illustrating how leaders can overcome these challenges to achieve meaningful growth.

To make progress on complex challenges in healthcare, leaders must take a systems perspective. This session will explore the ways that healthcare leaders can look beyond static snapshots of their organizations and see our challenges as they really are — patterns of dynamic relationships. We’ll include specific ideas for extending perspective to purpose, context, self, and others.

Health systems are operating with tight margins. Whether you work for a health system or sell to them, it’s critical to understand how their finances drive decisions that leaders make on a day-to-day basis. In Part 1 of this series, we’ll explore the basics of health system expenses. Join to learn what health systems spend money on, trends impacting their spend, and what tactics they’ll use to remain financially sustainable moving forward.

Health systems are facing a variety of challenges today, including ongoing margin pressure, capacity issues, and the growth of Medicare Advantage. In part one of this webinar series, we’ll detail 5 of the top 10 trends impacting health systems right now.

Join this webinar to learn about the major headwinds facing the infusion market. This session will assess the policies set to influence infusion revenues, analyze the shifting drug pipeline, and break down the relationship between the site-of-care shift and growing competition for infusion volumes. We’ll share best practices and emerging ideas for health systems to navigate these pressures and position their infusion assets for success.

Join Advisory Board experts to learn how Medicare Advantage organizations are navigating the more constrained financial environment they face today. Participants will also get an introduction to Advisory Board’s new Health Plan Market Explorer tool, which helps users benchmark against competitors and find opportunities for growth or improvement.

Value-based care (VBC) success can be difficult to achieve until you see it for yourself, so we’ve searched for organizations with VBC approaches worth emulating. Join us to learn about Bellin Health's journey — how their direct-to-employer VBC strategy reduced employee medical spending by 11% and saved their employer partners millions of dollars.

Health systems are operating with tight margins. Whether you work for a health system or sell to them, you need to understand how health system finances drive decisions that leaders make on a day-to-day basis. In Part 2 of this series, we’ll explore the basics of health system revenue. Join us to learn how health systems make money, trends impacting the revenue cycle, and what tactics they’ll use to remain financially sustainable moving forward.

Join a group of expert panelists from Advisory Board and Optum to learn about the top growth opportunities for Medicare Advantage plans in 2026, as well as how plan designs are shifting to meet the evolving realities of the Medicare Advantage market.

Join Advisory Board experts to learn how employers are managing health benefit spend in 2026 amid rising utilization, higher provider rates, and surging drug costs. We’ll explore how plan sponsors are moving beyond traditional HDHPs and toward variable copay and managed navigation models. We’ll look at how plan sponsors are reconsidering funding approaches — like level-funding, ICHRAs, and group captives — and adopting more curated network strategies to steer members to higher-value care.

In this session, we’ll delve into the five reasons for executives’ hesitation to committing to system-level CVR. Then, we will challenge these reasons and highlight the financial, operational, and strategic upsides of pursuing CVR at scale. We will also outline the steps health systems can take once they’ve secured executive commitment to CVR and highlight how Optum Advisory Services can help along the way.