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Years focused on healthcare
200+
Experts on our team
4,500+
Partners across the industry
Our recent research
- Clinical cost management
- Aligning drug spend to value
- Digital maturity model
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.
Understand how payers and employers are reshaping the market
The top priorities for health plans today — by line of business | Presentation
Explore the top priorities for health plans today and how plans are positioning themselves for future success. In addition to big picture priorities — such as corporate strategy, member experience, and provider relations — this presentation covers the latest in:- Employer-sponsored
- Medicare Advantage
- Medicaid managed care
- Individual market
The health plan clinical cost management playbook | Presentation
Rising cost of care continues to be critical for health plans and purchasers in all lines of business. In this session, we explore three steps to creating a better clinical cost management playbook:- Rely on data-driven processes to identify your plan’s main problems
- Prioritize strategies based on the results your plan cares about
- Pilot and adopt initiatives that can be executed and evaluated reliably
Events and webinars
2026 summit series
The future of healthcare is resilient
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:
- Sustainable health system growth
- Care variation reduction: Strategies for success
- Metrics that matter: Assessing and proving your value
Dates and locations
- Nov. 10-11 | Nashville, TN
- Dec. 8-9 | Virtual
2026 roundtables
- Cardiovascular
- AI
- Specialty pharmacy
- Oncology
- Value-based care
- Nursing
2026 webinars
Join one of our 70+ annual webinars to learn about the latest healthcare industry trends and topics.
- 2026 State of the industry + top health system trends
- Health plan market
- Market and service line trends
- AI in finances
- Care variation reduction
- Value-based care
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.
Upcoming Cohorts
Spring 2027 Launch
March 31-April 2 | Washington, D.C.
Fall 2027 Launch
Sept. 29-Oct. 1 | 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 2026
- 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.
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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