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Navigate CMS Changes with Confidence

Join product managers, actuaries, and bid strategists for an interactive deep dive into benchmark changes, risk adjustment impacts, technology-driven validation, and strategic benefit design. More than 200 organizations rely on this training to strengthen pricing assumptions, improve cross-functional coordination, and optimize performance year-round.

As the only conference dedicated to every stage of the CMS bid process, you’ll leave equipped to navigate change, improve operational efficiency, and turn 2026 requirements into advantage.

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Key Takeaways You'll Walk Away With

Advance Your Bid Precision

AI, analytics, and data-driven methods to strengthen pricing and validation

Strengthen Your Year-Round Bid Process

Continuous strategies that improve coordination, forecasting, and performance

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Thinking About Attending? Here's Why You Should

  • Build a compliant and competitive 2026 bid with step-by-step guidance from experts.
  • Understand the financial impact of benchmark changes, V28 risk adjustment updates, and new CMS requirements.
  • Leverage AI and analytics to improve pricing accuracy, validate assumptions, and strengthen bid performance.
  • Create a year-round bid process that reduces rework, improves coordination, and accelerates decision-making.
  • Gain actionable strategies, tools, and templates to optimize rebates, align benefit design, and support Star Ratings performance.

You'll Be in Good Company

Take a look at who you'll be sitting next to. If you touch any part of the bid process, you belong here! 

Organizations That Attend

  • Health Plans: Medicare Advantage, Multi-Line, Commercial, & Medicaid 
  • Accountable Care Organizations
  • Community-Based Organizations, Government Agencies, & Advocacy Groups
  • Physician Practices, Medical Groups, & Hospitals
  • IPA Management or MSO Companies
  • Integrated Delivery Networks
  • Not-For-Profit Organizations & Health Care Foundations
  • Pharmacy Benefit Managers
  • Pharmaceutical Manufacturers
  • Prescription Drug Plans
  • Consultants & Vendors That Provide Platforms and Solutions
  • Auditors
  • Academia & Employer Groups

Job Functions You'll Network With

  • Revenue Management and Analysis

  • Actuarial Work and Risk Adjustment

  • Product Design and Development

  • Government Programs Compliance

  • Operations

  • Special Needs Plans

  • Medicare Part D

  • Formulary Design

  • Pharmacy Benefits

  • Quality and Star Ratings

  • Sales and Marketing

  • Network Development

  • Care Management 

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