How health plan leaders can partner with Advisory Board

Learn how health plan leaders can leverage Advisory Board's research and products in the year ahead.

With Advisory Board research, health plan leaders can…

Learn what peers and cross-industry stakeholders are doing and how their moves impact your strategy.

Pressure test your ideas and ask questions about market dynamics,  product strategy, and industry disruptors.

Build consensus and a shared language among your leadership team via highly interactive and thought-provoking sessions focused on your top priorities.

Connect and interact with your competitors, peers, and other industry stakeholders, and hear from experts on innovation.

Current Research Agenda

Last updated June 2025.


By the numbers

40+
Years focused on healthcare
200+
Experts on our team
4,500+
Partners across the industry

Our recent research


Presentations and workshops

Whether you're looking for topical presentations or dedicated focus on a challenge or initiative, our expert support gives you access to healthcare experts in different ways to match your time and needs. Learn more.

A “must have” on annual basis
  • State of the healthcare industry | Presentation
    Details the seismic shifts that are shaping where care is delivered, who delivers it, and how it is financed — so health plan leaders can evaluate how their strategic decisions will shape their organizations’ success in the years ahead.
Conversations for the C-suite
  • Value-based care, demystified | Presentation
    Learn current perspectives on risk-based payment models, potential hurdles, and how health plans can support provider success in value-based care.

  • Navigating AI in healthcare | Presentation
    Equip your leaders with an understanding of artificial intelligence (AI), the potential benefits these technologies offer, the unique challenges AI presents in healthcare, and how organizations, leaders, and teams should respond to AI today.

Line of business deep dives
  • The next era of employer-plan cost containment strategies | Presentation
    Go deep on managed navigation strategies that influence care delivery and network design — why they are growing in popularity and how to deploy these models to manage healthcare spend.

  • Beyond survival: Realizing sustainability in Medicare Advantage | Presentation
    Double-click on the “virtuous cycle” that is essential to sustainable growth for MA plans, including product development strategies and the key levers to maximize Stars and risk adjustment efforts.

  • The future of Medicaid managed care: Managing cost and quality coming out of the PHE | Presentation
    Apply lessons learned from the unwinding to future Medicaid managed care priorities to improve Medicaid bids and member (cost & quality) management for years to come.


Events and webinars

2025 summit series

Reimagine healthcare: 3 transformation imperatives

The healthcare industry is facing a transformative moment. As leaders, it’s up to you to shape how your organizations approach investment and partnership decisions, care delivery, and technology. Being intentional about these will ensure a viable, efficient, and patient-centered healthcare ecosystem.

For this summit series, Advisory Board will bring together executive teams from across the industry in four exciting destinations. You will be equipped with pertinent insights and action steps to take back home.

Topics include:

  • Adapt to new market dynamics
  • Build tomorrow’s care model today
  • Embrace digital competencies

Browse the full agenda, learn more, and register.

Dates and locations
  • October 7-8 | Chicago, IL
  • November 18-19 | Nashville, TN
  • December 9-10 | Virtual
2025 roundtables
  • How to deliver the next era of VBC | October 15-16 | Washington, D.C.

Learn more or register

2025 webinars

Join one of our 70+ annual webinars to learn about the latest healthcare industry trends and topics.

  • Health plan strategy and trends
  • Value-based care
  • 2025 digital health market trends
  • AI in healthcare
  • Understand your customer series: Health systems, Medical groups, Life sciences
  • The state of the industry heading into 2026

Learn more or register


Leadership building through Advisory Board Fellowship

Advisory Board Fellowship is designed to help health plan leaders develop the skills needed to help their organizations and those of their customers navigate the complexity of the healthcare industry, solve emerging challenges, and advance organizational priorities. Across 18 months, participants engage in six intensives with emerging leaders from across the healthcare ecosystem including hospital, health system, and clinician executives. This is a unique opportunity for participants to not only learn more about their customers’ challenges, but to work alongside them to develop critical leadership skills.

Participating leaders leverage the Fellowship Practicum Project to positively impact finance, operations, quality, safety, and patient experience.

Upcoming Cohorts

Fall 2025 Launch

September 10-12 | Washington, D.C.


Custom research

Gain a competitive edge by partnering with Advisory Board researchers to deliver specific answers to your most pressing questions. Our custom research offering brings together our proven research methodology, industry expertise, and a deep understanding of your organization, equipping you with the tools and insights needed to refine your strategies and make informed decisions.

Custom research scoped to your specific need

We design custom research engagements using a variety of our capabilities to ensure the insights and tools we provide help you act on your top priorities. Sample capabilities include:

  • Qualitative interviews to uncover how leading organizations and your competitors are approaching their top strategies.
  • Quantitative surveys to bring you the numbers that illuminate key trends externally or internally to your organization.
  • Custom benchmarking to compare yourself to peer organizations and identify top strengths and improvement opportunities.
  • Customer insights to improve your market penetration and customer experience.
Opportunities for your organization in 2025
  • Customized best-practice research to drive organizational performance assessments and needs diagnoses.
  • Cheat sheets and discussion guides to facilitate productive conversations on issues your customers care about most.
  • Stakeholder insight analyses giving you a deeper understanding of your key stakeholders, their priorities, challenges, and decision drivers.
  • Custom growth driver assessments that pair qualitative and quantitative insights to identify the market forces that influence demand for particular services and offerings.

Our products and services

Research Membership

Data-driven, actionable insights to inform decisions

  • Learn from more than 200 Advisory Board experts
  • Access over 300 new research deliverables each year
  • Leverage our forecasting tools to support strategic planning

Custom Research

Insight-driven answers and tailored guidance

  • Get actionable insights, contextualized to your organization's challenges and priorities
  • Inform your strategy with top emerging market and industry trends
  • Request extensive research across topics that span the entire healthcare ecosystem

Advisory Board Events

Opportunities to network, learn, and grow your expertise

  • Experience agendas aligned to your team's greatest challenges
  • Tackle market challenges by collaborating with cross-sector research experts
  • Connect and network with leading healthcare decision-makers

Expert Support

Expert advice and actionable guidance for healthcare executives

  • Host insightful presentations for your teams or customers across relevant topics
  • Get individualized support from our experts
  • Overcome hurdles and energize stalled projects with workshops led by our experts

Advisory Board Fellowship

Enterprise Leadership solution to equip leaders to thrive in complexity

  • Implement strategic leadership shifts proven to drive business outcomes more effectively
  • Get support on critical priorities from diverse industry peers and executive coaches
  • Expand personal and team capacity to address persistent challenges

Sponsorship

Opportunities to showcase your brand, product, and expertise

  • Leverage our tools, tactics, and distribution channels to engage target audiences
  • Grow your brand awareness
  • Generate leads for your organization

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