Need assistance?
For last minute changes or questions, contact Christen Smith:
An intimate, peer-led forum for 30 healthcare finance leaders
October 28-30 | @ Four Seasons Hotel in Nashville, TN
Accept your invitation
30 executives and three days of conversation you won’t find at a conference
Part industry forum, part intimate retreat, this invite-only gathering brings together a select group of Turquoise customers from providers, health plans, and employers.
Over three thoughtfully curated days, you’ll take part in candid discussions and practical working sessions all with the time and space to form genuine connections. Bring the challenges you’re working through. Leave with new relationships, fresh perspectives, and actionable ideas to bring back to your organization.
Healthcare won’t fix itself. But the people in this room can move it forward.
Agenda
Subject to change
Wed 28 Oct
6:00 pm
Welcome Reception
Meet forum attendees and get to know one another over drinks and heavy appetizers.
Thu 29 Oct
8:15 am
Breakfast and Networking
9:00 am
Welcome and Introductions
9:30 am
A New Model for Payer-Provider, Employer, and TPA Partnerships: The Contract Renews, Does the Relationship?
This session brings together providers, payers, employers, and TPAs to explore how greater collaboration, governance models, incentive sharing, transparency, and shared data can create more sustainable healthcare relationships and better outcomes for the people they ultimately serve.
In this session, you will describe where needs align and where disconnects exist, including what is feasible for each stakeholder. You’ll identify knowledge gaps, innovative partnership models, designs, and actions that each party can take to drive meaningful impact. You’ll hear from your peers on shared examples of success stories and lessons learned while envisioning the ideal future state for partnership.
10:30 am
Break
10:45 am
Closing the Reimbursement Gap: Expected vs. Actuals
In this session, you’ll examine why the gap between contracted rates and actual reimbursement continues to grow, where underpayments originate, and how prior authorization functions as a contract design problem, not simply an operational one. You’ll explore how AI-powered monitoring, denial prediction and analytics can shift the industry conversation from retrospective disputes to proactive contract management and performance. hYou’ll also consider what becomes possible when payers, providers, TPAs and employers have greater alignment and shared visibility into how contract terms are interpreted and applied. Lastly, you’ll spend time discussing strategies to mitigate these impacts across all parties and envision what can change when all stakeholders get it right.
1:15 pm
Washington Update
Join Turquoise experts for a comprehensive dialogue on healthcare advocacy and price transparency. The session will provide an update on proposed and finalized rules and establish the current regulatory landscape. Turquoise experts will examine the evolution of price transparency requirements and identify critical gaps and practical solutions to strengthen implementation. You’ll explore the strategies and viewpoints shaping the transparency agenda and what every stakeholder should monitor as regulations continue to evolve. The discussion will address actionable ways to advance price transparency, ensuring that regulatory intent translates into meaningful consumer access and market-wide accountability.
2:15 pm
What Direct-to-Employer Contracting Means for Future Partnerships Across the Aisles
Employers are increasingly managing healthcare spend directly, resulting in direct-to-employer (DTE) arrangements reshaping relationships among employers, TPAs, payers, and providers. As DTE models gain momentum, stakeholders will need to examine how to work differently—rethinking traditional roles, contracting approaches, and partnership models as employers take a more direct role in designing networks and managing healthcare spend.
In this session, you’ll examine the factors enabling DTE models, including greater access to pricing and performance data, transparency tools, and AI capabilities. Providers and employers will share what’s working, where challenges remain, and how these arrangements differ from traditional payer-provider relationships.
12:00 pm
Split-Track Roundtables
Working Lunch
What We Wish Payers/Providers/Employers Understood
During this work lunch, payers and providers will meet separately for a candid, facilitated conversation. Working with just your peer group, prompts will guide a discussion designed to surface what each group actually thinks and would be willing to change about how they do business. Key themes from each room will be shared back with the full group under Chatham House Rule before the afternoon session.
SoBro East, 5th floor
3:15 pm
Break
3:30 pm
Fireside Chat With a Special Guest
Guest to be announced. Previous year’s guests include Mark Cuban (MCC) & Seema Verma (Oracle Health, CMS)
A fireside conversation moderated by Turquoise CEO, Chris Severn. This session will offer an informal, candid discussion to close out Day One of the event.
4:30 pm
Networking and Work Break
6:30 pm
Dinner
Location to be announced
Fri 30 Oct
8:15 am
Breakfast and Networking
9:00 am
Product Overview and What’s Next: Turquoise Led Q&A
9:45 am
Break
11:00 am
Medicare Advantage: The Partnership Hiding Inside the Friction
In this session, you’ll look at why Medicare Advantage (MA) has become one of the most contentious payer relationships for many health systems, and how transparency data and AI contracting tools are being used to close the MA reimbursement gap. It explores what a genuine MA partnership could look like, including joint performance scorecards, shared utilization visibility, and contract structures that account for risk adjustment realities.
11:45 am
Forum Wrap-Up
Transportation & Logistics
Where you’ll stay
Four Seasons Hotel, Nashville, TN
100 Demonbreun St, Nashville, TN 37201
How you’ll get around
All attendees will receive an email with exclusive access to Uber Black for the duration of your trip.
The Turquoise team
Chris Severn
CEO & Co-Founder
Chris O'Dell
President
Jenn Misora
SVP of Customer Success
Kellie Martino
Director, Customer Experience
Brittany Cecil
Director, Customer Engagement
Brian Walsh
Director, Customer Engagement
Brendan Davis
VP of Sales
Faye Leong
VP of Marketing
© 2026 Executive Healthcare Payment Forum | Hosted by Turquoise
An intimate, peer-led forum for 30 healthcare finance leaders
October 28-30 | @ Four Seasons Hotel in Nashville, TN
Accept your invitation
30 executives and three days of conversation you won’t find at a conference
Part industry forum, part intimate retreat, this invite-only gathering brings together a select group of Turquoise customers from providers, health plans, and employers.
Over three thoughtfully curated days, you’ll take part in candid discussions and practical working sessions all with the time and space to form genuine connections. Bring the challenges you’re working through. Leave with new relationships, fresh perspectives, and actionable ideas to bring back to your organization.
Healthcare won’t fix itself. But the people in this room can move it forward.
Agenda
Subject to change
Wed 28 Oct
6:00 pm
Welcome Reception
Meet forum attendees and get to know one another over drinks and heavy appetizers.
Thu 29 Oct
8:15 am
Breakfast and Networking
9:00 am
Welcome and Introductions
9:30 am
A New Model for Payer-Provider, Employer, and TPA Partnerships: The Contract Renews, Does the Relationship?
This session brings together providers, payers, employers, and TPAs to explore how greater collaboration, governance models, incentive sharing, transparency, and shared data can create more sustainable healthcare relationships and better outcomes for the people they ultimately serve.
In this session, you will describe where needs align and where disconnects exist, including what is feasible for each stakeholder. You’ll identify knowledge gaps, innovative partnership models, designs, and actions that each party can take to drive meaningful impact. You’ll hear from your peers on shared examples of success stories and lessons learned while envisioning the ideal future state for partnership.
10:30 am
Break
10:45 am
Closing the Reimbursement Gap: Expected vs. Actuals
In this session, you’ll examine why the gap between contracted rates and actual reimbursement continues to grow, where underpayments originate, and how prior authorization functions as a contract design problem, not simply an operational one. You’ll explore how AI-powered monitoring, denial prediction and analytics can shift the industry conversation from retrospective disputes to proactive contract management and performance. hYou’ll also consider what becomes possible when payers, providers, TPAs and employers have greater alignment and shared visibility into how contract terms are interpreted and applied. Lastly, you’ll spend time discussing strategies to mitigate these impacts across all parties and envision what can change when all stakeholders get it right.
1:15 pm
Washington Update
Join Turquoise experts for a comprehensive dialogue on healthcare advocacy and price transparency. The session will provide an update on proposed and finalized rules and establish the current regulatory landscape. Turquoise experts will examine the evolution of price transparency requirements and identify critical gaps and practical solutions to strengthen implementation. You’ll explore the strategies and viewpoints shaping the transparency agenda and what every stakeholder should monitor as regulations continue to evolve. The discussion will address actionable ways to advance price transparency, ensuring that regulatory intent translates into meaningful consumer access and market-wide accountability.
2:15 pm
What Direct-to-Employer Contracting Means for Future Partnerships Across the Aisles
Employers are increasingly managing healthcare spend directly, resulting in direct-to-employer (DTE) arrangements reshaping relationships among employers, TPAs, payers, and providers. As DTE models gain momentum, stakeholders will need to examine how to work differently—rethinking traditional roles, contracting approaches, and partnership models as employers take a more direct role in designing networks and managing healthcare spend.
In this session, you’ll examine the factors enabling DTE models, including greater access to pricing and performance data, transparency tools, and AI capabilities. Providers and employers will share what’s working, where challenges remain, and how these arrangements differ from traditional payer-provider relationships.
3:15 pm
Break
3:30 pm
Fireside Chat With a Special Guest
Guest to be announced. Previous year’s guests include Mark Cuban (MCC) & Seema Verma (Oracle Health, CMS)
A fireside conversation moderated by Turquoise CEO, Chris Severn. This session will offer an informal, candid discussion to close out Day One of the event.
4:30 pm
Networking and Work Break
6:30 pm
Dinner
Location to be announced
Fri 30 Oct
8:15 am
Breakfast and Networking
9:00 am
Product Overview and What’s Next: Turquoise Led Q&A
9:45 am
Break
11:00 am
Medicare Advantage: The Partnership Hiding Inside the Friction
In this session, you’ll look at why Medicare Advantage (MA) has become one of the most contentious payer relationships for many health systems, and how transparency data and AI contracting tools are being used to close the MA reimbursement gap. It explores what a genuine MA partnership could look like, including joint performance scorecards, shared utilization visibility, and contract structures that account for risk adjustment realities.
11:45 am
Forum Wrap-Up
Transportation & Logistics
Where you’ll stay
Four Seasons Hotel, Nashville, TN
100 Demonbreun St, Nashville, TN 37201
How you’ll get around
All attendees will receive an email with exclusive access to Uber Black for the duration of your trip.
The Turquoise team
Chris Severn
CEO & Co-Founder
Chris O'Dell
President
Jenn Misora
SVP of Customer Success
Kellie Martino
Director, Customer Experience
Brittany Cecil
Director, Customer Engagement
Brian Walsh
Director, Customer Engagement
Brendan Davis
VP of Sales
Faye Leong
VP of Marketing
Need assistance?
For last minute changes or questions, contact Christen Smith:
© 2026 Executive Healthcare Payment Forum | Hosted by Turquoise
An intimate, peer-led forum for 30 healthcare finance leaders
October 28-30 | @ Four Seasons Hotel in Nashville, TN
Accept your invitation
30 executives and three days of conversation you won’t find at a conference
Part industry forum, part intimate retreat, this invite-only gathering brings together a select group of Turquoise customers from providers, health plans, and employers.
Over three thoughtfully curated days, you’ll take part in candid discussions and practical working sessions all with the time and space to form genuine connections. Bring the challenges you’re working through. Leave with new relationships, fresh perspectives, and actionable ideas to bring back to your organization.
Healthcare won’t fix itself. But the people in this room can move it forward.
Agenda
Subject to change
Wed 28 Oct
6:00 pm
Welcome Reception
Meet forum attendees and get to know one another over drinks and heavy appetizers.
Thu 29 Oct
8:15 am
Breakfast and Networking
9:00 am
Welcome and Introductions
9:30 am
A New Model for Payer-Provider, Employer, and TPA Partnerships: The Contract Renews, Does the Relationship?
This session brings together providers, payers, employers, and TPAs to explore how greater collaboration, governance models, incentive sharing, transparency, and shared data can create more sustainable healthcare relationships and better outcomes for the people they ultimately serve.
In this session, you will describe where needs align and where disconnects exist, including what is feasible for each stakeholder. You’ll identify knowledge gaps, innovative partnership models, designs, and actions that each party can take to drive meaningful impact. You’ll hear from your peers on shared examples of success stories and lessons learned while envisioning the ideal future state for partnership.
10:30 am
Break
10:45 am
Closing the Reimbursement Gap: Expected vs. Actuals
In this session, you’ll examine why the gap between contracted rates and actual reimbursement continues to grow, where underpayments originate, and how prior authorization functions as a contract design problem, not simply an operational one. You’ll explore how AI-powered monitoring, denial prediction and analytics can shift the industry conversation from retrospective disputes to proactive contract management and performance. hYou’ll also consider what becomes possible when payers, providers, TPAs and employers have greater alignment and shared visibility into how contract terms are interpreted and applied. Lastly, you’ll spend time discussing strategies to mitigate these impacts across all parties and envision what can change when all stakeholders get it right.
12:00pm
Split-Track Roundtables
Working Lunch & Networking Break
What We Wish Providers/Payers/Employers Understood
During this work lunch, payers and providers will meet separately for a candid, facilitated conversation. Working with just your peer group, prompts will guide a discussion designed to surface what each group actually thinks and would be willing to change about how they do business. Key themes from each room will be shared back with the full group under Chatham House Rule before the afternoon session.
1:00 pm
Break
1:15 pm
Washington Update
Join Turquoise experts for a comprehensive dialogue on healthcare advocacy and price transparency. The session will provide an update on proposed and finalized rules and establish the current regulatory landscape. Turquoise experts will examine the evolution of price transparency requirements and identify critical gaps and practical solutions to strengthen implementation. You’ll explore the strategies and viewpoints shaping the transparency agenda and what every stakeholder should monitor as regulations continue to evolve. The discussion will address actionable ways to advance price transparency, ensuring that regulatory intent translates into meaningful consumer access and market-wide accountability.
2:15 pm
What Direct-to-Employer Contracting Means for Future Partnerships Across the Aisles
Employers are increasingly managing healthcare spend directly, resulting in direct-to-employer (DTE) arrangements reshaping relationships among employers, TPAs, payers, and providers. As DTE models gain momentum, stakeholders will need to examine how to work differently—rethinking traditional roles, contracting approaches, and partnership models as employers take a more direct role in designing networks and managing healthcare spend.
In this session, you’ll examine the factors enabling DTE models, including greater access to pricing and performance data, transparency tools, and AI capabilities. Providers and employers will share what’s working, where challenges remain, and how these arrangements differ from traditional payer-provider relationships.
3:15 pm
Break
3:30 pm
Fireside Chat With a Special Guest
Guest to be announced. Previous year’s guests include Mark Cuban (MCC) & Seema Verma (Oracle Health, CMS)
A fireside conversation moderated by Turquoise CEO, Chris Severn. This session will offer an informal, candid discussion to close out Day One of the event.
4:30 pm
Networking and Work Break
6:30 pm
Dinner
Location to be announced
Fri 30 Oct
8:15 am
Breakfast and Networking
9:00 am
Product Overview and What’s Next: Turquoise Led Q&A
9:45 am
Break
10:00 am
Split-Track Roundtables
Real-Time Payer Policy Surveillance At Scale
Provider Session:
Payer coverage and reimbursement policies change constantly and unevenly across plans, lines of business and states. In this session, you’ll learn how organizations can build repeatable payer policy compliance and surveillance programs using data and analytics to centralize and standardize policy information at scale.
Unlocking IDR Real-Time
Payer Session:
In this session, you’ll explore a practical methodology for leveraging market-rate data to understand IDR trends and benchmark out-of-network rates in real-time. You’ll gain actionable strategies for managing IDR proactively, reducing disputes, and fulfilling fiduciary responsibilities to employers.
11:00 am
Medicare Advantage: The Partnership Hiding Inside the Friction
In this session, you’ll look at why Medicare Advantage (MA) has become one of the most contentious payer relationships for many health systems, and how transparency data and AI contracting tools are being used to close the MA reimbursement gap. It explores what a genuine MA partnership could look like, including joint performance scorecards, shared utilization visibility, and contract structures that account for risk adjustment realities.
11:45 am
Forum Wrap-Up
Transportation & Logistics
Where you’ll stay
Four Seasons Hotel, Nashville, TN
100 Demonbreun St, Nashville, TN 37201
How you’ll get around
All attendees will receive an email with exclusive access to Uber Black for the duration of your trip.
The Turquoise team
Chris Severn
CEO & Co-Founder
Chris O'Dell
President
Jenn Misora
SVP of Customer Success
Kellie Martino
Director, Customer Experience
Brittany Cecil
Director, Customer Engagement
Brian Walsh
Director, Customer Engagement
Brendan Davis
VP of Sales
Faye Leong
VP of Marketing
Need assistance?
For last minute changes or questions, contact Christen Smith:
© 2026 Executive Healthcare Payment Forum | Hosted by Turquoise
An intimate, peer-led forum for 30 healthcare finance leaders
October 28-30 | @ Four Seasons Hotel in Nashville, TN
Accept your invitation
30 executives and three days of conversation you won’t find at a conference
Part industry forum, part intimate retreat, this invite-only gathering brings together a select group of Turquoise customers from providers, health plans, and employers.
Over three thoughtfully curated days, you’ll take part in candid discussions and practical working sessions all with the time and space to form genuine connections. Bring the challenges you’re working through. Leave with new relationships, fresh perspectives, and actionable ideas to bring back to your organization.
Healthcare won’t fix itself. But the people in this room can move it forward.
Agenda
Subject to change
Wed 28 Oct
6:00 pm
Welcome Reception
Meet forum attendees and get to know one another over drinks and heavy appetizers.
Thu 29 Oct
8:15 am
Breakfast and Networking
9:00 am
Welcome and Introductions
9:30 am
A New Model for Payer-Provider, Employer, and TPA Partnerships: The Contract Renews, Does the Relationship?
This session brings together providers, payers, employers, and TPAs to explore how greater collaboration, governance models, incentive sharing, transparency, and shared data can create more sustainable healthcare relationships and better outcomes for the people they ultimately serve.
In this session, you will describe where needs align and where disconnects exist, including what is feasible for each stakeholder. You’ll identify knowledge gaps, innovative partnership models, designs, and actions that each party can take to drive meaningful impact. You’ll hear from your peers on shared examples of success stories and lessons learned while envisioning the ideal future state for partnership.
10:30 am
Break
10:45 am
Closing the Reimbursement Gap: Expected vs. Actuals
In this session, you’ll examine why the gap between contracted rates and actual reimbursement continues to grow, where underpayments originate, and how prior authorization functions as a contract design problem, not simply an operational one. You’ll explore how AI-powered monitoring, denial prediction and analytics can shift the industry conversation from retrospective disputes to proactive contract management and performance. hYou’ll also consider what becomes possible when payers, providers, TPAs and employers have greater alignment and shared visibility into how contract terms are interpreted and applied. Lastly, you’ll spend time discussing strategies to mitigate these impacts across all parties and envision what can change when all stakeholders get it right.
12:00pm
Split-Track Roundtables
Working Lunch & Networking Break
What We Wish Providers/Payers/Employers Understood
During this work lunch, payers and providers will meet separately for a candid, facilitated conversation. Working with just your peer group, prompts will guide a discussion designed to surface what each group actually thinks and would be willing to change about how they do business. Key themes from each room will be shared back with the full group under Chatham House Rule before the afternoon session.
1:00 pm
Break
1:15 pm
Washington Update
Join Turquoise experts for a comprehensive dialogue on healthcare advocacy and price transparency. The session will provide an update on proposed and finalized rules and establish the current regulatory landscape. Turquoise experts will examine the evolution of price transparency requirements and identify critical gaps and practical solutions to strengthen implementation. You’ll explore the strategies and viewpoints shaping the transparency agenda and what every stakeholder should monitor as regulations continue to evolve. The discussion will address actionable ways to advance price transparency, ensuring that regulatory intent translates into meaningful consumer access and market-wide accountability.
2:15 pm
What Direct-to-Employer Contracting Means for Future Partnerships Across the Aisles
Employers are increasingly managing healthcare spend directly, resulting in direct-to-employer (DTE) arrangements reshaping relationships among employers, TPAs, payers, and providers. As DTE models gain momentum, stakeholders will need to examine how to work differently—rethinking traditional roles, contracting approaches, and partnership models as employers take a more direct role in designing networks and managing healthcare spend.
In this session, you’ll examine the factors enabling DTE models, including greater access to pricing and performance data, transparency tools, and AI capabilities. Providers and employers will share what’s working, where challenges remain, and how these arrangements differ from traditional payer-provider relationships.
3:15 pm
Break
3:30 pm
Fireside Chat With a Special Guest
Guest to be announced. Previous year’s guests include Mark Cuban (MCC) & Seema Verma (Oracle Health, CMS)
A fireside conversation moderated by Turquoise CEO, Chris Severn. This session will offer an informal, candid discussion to close out Day One of the event.
4:30 pm
Networking and Work Break
6:30 pm
Dinner
Location to be announced
Fri 30 Oct
8:15 am
Breakfast and Networking
9:00 am
Product Overview and What’s Next: Turquoise Led Q&A
9:45 am
Break
10:00 am
Split-Track Roundtables
Real-Time Payer Policy Surveillance At Scale
Provider Session:
Payer coverage and reimbursement policies change constantly and unevenly across plans, lines of business and states. In this session, you’ll learn how organizations can build repeatable payer policy compliance and surveillance programs using data and analytics to centralize and standardize policy information at scale.
Unlocking IDR Real-Time
Payer Session:
In this session, you’ll explore a practical methodology for leveraging market-rate data to understand IDR trends and benchmark out-of-network rates in real-time. You’ll gain actionable strategies for managing IDR proactively, reducing disputes, and fulfilling fiduciary responsibilities to employers.
11:00 am
Medicare Advantage: The Partnership Hiding Inside the Friction
In this session, you’ll look at why Medicare Advantage (MA) has become one of the most contentious payer relationships for many health systems, and how transparency data and AI contracting tools are being used to close the MA reimbursement gap. It explores what a genuine MA partnership could look like, including joint performance scorecards, shared utilization visibility, and contract structures that account for risk adjustment realities.
11:45 am
Forum Wrap-Up
Transportation & Logistics
Where you’ll stay
Four Seasons Hotel, Nashville, TN
100 Demonbreun St, Nashville, TN 37201
How you’ll get around
All attendees will receive an email with exclusive access to Uber Black for the duration of your trip.
The Turquoise team
Chris Severn
CEO & Co-Founder
Chris O'Dell
President
Jenn Misora
SVP of Customer Success
Kellie Martino
Director, Customer Experience
Brittany Cecil
Director, Customer Engagement
Brian Walsh
Director, Customer Engagement
Brendan Davis
VP of Sales
Faye Leong
VP of Marketing
Need assistance?
For last minute changes or questions, contact Christen Smith:
© 2026 Executive Healthcare Payment Forum | Hosted by Turquoise