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  • March 4, 2026

    Wednesday

  • March 5, 2026

    Thursday

  • March 6, 2026

    Friday

  • A centralized service point for attendee check-in, badge collection, event materials, and general inquiries.
    Where
    Palm Foyer

  • Designated timeframe for sponsors to set up on-site materials, and displays in advance of attendee arrival.
    Where
    Palm Foyer





  • Presented by: Polsinelli

    Connect with behavioral health leaders and innovators to kick off the BHB VALUE Conference. Network, share ideas, and start building meaningful partnerships.
    Where
    Unreserved Beer Garden

  • A centralized service point for attendee check-in, badge collection, event materials, and general inquiries.
    Where
    Palm Foyer





  • Presented by: Brelllium
    Where
    Cyprus/Dogwood

  • Timeframe for sponsors to set up on-site materials, and displays.
    Where
    Palm Foyer

  • Gather for a warm welcome from the Behavioral Health Business team, as they set the stage for the high-impact sessions, networking opportunities and industry insights set to unfold.
    Where
    Palm CDE

  • Access to behavioral health care rarely fails because of clinical quality—it fails because organizations struggle to reliably move people from interest to care at scale. In this panel, Bob Poznanovich, Senior Fellow and Former Chief Growth Officer of Hazelden Betty Ford, Kelly Epperson, President and COO of Rosecrance, and Geoff Nudd, CEO of Anonymous Health, will discuss how artificial intelligence is transforming the front door of behavioral health into a strategic growth and access advantage. Designed for CEOs and Chief Growth Officers, this session focuses on how AI can help standardize the first conversation without commoditizing it—reducing variability, supporting human-centered engagement, and enabling predictable growth without simply adding headcount. Panelists will share real-world lessons from implementation, including what changed operationally, how teams adapted, and where AI delivered measurable impact across access, conversion quality, and continuity of care. Rather than replacing human judgment, AI is explored as a force multiplier—helping organizations engage people earlier, route them more appropriately, and build long-term relationships that extend beyond a single admission. Attendees will leave with a clear understanding of where AI creates real value today, how to deploy it responsibly, and why the front door represents the highest-leverage opportunity for improving growth, access, and sustainability in behavioral health.
    Where
    Palm CDE

  • Traditional payer contracts are giving way to collaborative models built on shared data, transparency and clinical alignment. In this panel, leaders will discuss how these partnerships evolve and what metrics now define “value.”
    Where
    Palm CDE

  • Take a break to connect with fellow attendees, continue the conversation, and exchange ideas with leaders and innovators across behavioral health.
    Where
    Palm Foyer

  • Behavioral health organizations are under mounting pressure to meet rising demand with a limited and increasingly strained workforce. This session explores how leaders can dramatically improve staff efficiency and reduce burnout by redesigning workflows, optimizing team structures, and leveraging intelligent scheduling tools. Attendees will learn practical strategies for balancing caseloads, aligning staff to top‑of‑license work, and eliminating administrative waste through automation. The session also highlights how modern solutions to bring real visibility to staffing capacity, streamline schedule coordination, and support multidisciplinary care teams across programs and locations. Participants will leave with actionable steps to unlock workforce capacity, improve provider satisfaction, and drive sustainable operational performance—without adding headcount.
    Where
    Palm CDE

  • Value-based care seeks to align payment models with what everyone in the behavioral health ecosystem wants: high-quality care. However, the Achilles heel of VBC in behavioral healthcare has been reliable, valid assessment of quality to inform payment models. Join leaders from Aetna, Centerstone, and Lyssn as they discuss quality and VBC in BH – what have they tried and explored? What are the opportunities for AI-driven measurement to help payors and providers align incentives? What are the possibilities for AI-informed VBC to deliver quality in cost effective solutions? This panel will share real-world insights and opportunities on how AI is enabling more transparent, scalable, and outcome-driven mental health care.
    Where
    Palm A

  • What happens after discharge is often the least structured—and highest risk—phase of care. This interactive working session invites treatment leaders to examine where alumni programs succeed, where they quietly break down, and how post-discharge behaviors like medication adherence impact long-term outcomes across RTC, PHP, IOP and MAT settings. Attendees will participate in small-group discussions, share real-world challenges, and leave with a practical improvement framework for strengthening alumni engagement, increasing visibility after discharge, and reducing preventable setbacks. Designed for executives and clinical leaders focused on outcomes, not theory.
    Where
    Palm B

  • Staffing is often the missing piece in forward-looking, innovative payer arrangements. This discussion will focus on clinician engagement, productivity and training strategies that enable success under value-based contracts.
    Where
    Palm CDE

  • As utilization review tightens and networks narrow, the autism sector must adapt. This panel explores alternative reimbursement strategies, such as hybrid models and tiered intensity, that balance access, outcomes and cost control for both payers and providers.
    Where
    Palm A

  • In this session, BHB will sit down on-on-one with a provider leader and a payer partner for an inside look at their value-based care strategy – what has worked, what hasn’t and where future efforts will be focused.
    Where
    Palm B





  • Presented by: Brellium

    Refuel and recharge with the leaders in behavioral health by enjoying lunch, where meaningful introductions and collaborative conversations are always on the menu.
    Where
    Cyprus/Dogwood

  • Where
    Magnolia Room

  • As healthcare shifts from volume to value, integrated behavioral health has become a critical driver of financial performance under risk-based contracts. This panel provides executive leaders with a practical framework for how integrated behavioral health reduces total cost of care, improves quality metrics, and generates sustainable margin through value-based and hybrid payment models.
    Where
    Palm CDE

  • Long-term care facilities are facing rising behavioral challenges, unnecessary hospitalizations, staff burnout, and regulatory risk. This session introduces a scalable, value-based model that delivers direct telepsychiatry care—including psychiatric medication management and therapy—integrated into daily LTC operations. By combining Telepsychiatry, Behavioral Health Integration (BHI), and Collaborative Care (CoCM), LTC facilities are able to shift to early prevention instead of reactive responses. This hybrid, whole-person model improves quality of life, reduces psychotropic burden, lowers avoidable hospitalizations, and strengthens regulatory compliance while extending access to behavioral health care across state lines, especially in rural areas where care access is limited.
    Where
    Palm A

  • Measurement-Based Care (MBC) has existed for decades, but in recent years it has become a critical priority as behavioral health organizations navigate the shift toward value-based care. In this panel, leaders from Aurora Mental Health and Recovery and Greenspace Health explore what’s driving renewed attention to MBC, how strong data and outcomes have helped build successful payor partnerships and what it really takes internally to align measurement with care delivery. Through real-world examples, the discussion will highlight practical strategies for leveraging MBC to support value-based care models and what clinicians and organizations should be prioritizing now to prepare for what’s next.
    Where
    Palm B

  • Digital health companies are pitching patient matching services as the solution to ghost networks in behavioral health. But as payers sign contracts and providers integrate these platforms, a critical question remains unanswered: How do we measure whether these services actually improve care quality and patient access? This panel examines what metrics matter, which deals are being tracked and what “proof of value” should look like in 2026.
    Where
    Palm CDE

  • The One Big Beautiful Bill Act has reshaped Medicaid funding, already prompting behavioral health leaders to rethink how they deliver and finance care. This panel will explore how states, payers and providers are adapting to shifting reimbursement dynamics and what the new normal means for access and sustainability.
    Where
    Palm A

  • The behavioral health field is witnessing a wave of promising newer interventions – from psychedelic-assisted therapy and transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) to GLP-1 medications showing unexpected benefits for addiction and mental health – but proving their clinical and financial value remains a critical challenge. With a focus on interventional psychiatry, this panel brings together key behavioral health stakeholders to explore how to build compelling value propositions when long-term outcome data is still emerging, upfront costs are high and reimbursement pathways remain uncertain.
    Where
    Palm B

  • Take a break to connect with fellow attendees, continue the conversation, and exchange ideas with leaders and innovators across behavioral health.
    Where
    Palm Foyer

  • AI tools are rapidly reshaping the revenue cycle but technology alone doesn’t guarantee better results. In this panel, RCM and digital health leaders will explore how organizations are moving beyond basic automation toward AI applications that meaningfully improve performance, efficiency, and financial outcomes.

    The discussion will focus on where AI is actually moving the needle in today’s revenue cycle, including: reducing manual work, improving denial prevention, accelerating follow-up, enhancing payer communications, and enabling smarter prioritization across teams. Panelists will share real-world examples of what’s working, common pitfalls to avoid, and how leaders can thoughtfully integrate AI into existing people, process, and technology workflows.
    Where
    Palm CDE

  • As value-based care continues to take shape in behavioral health, organizations are being asked to show value earlier, more clearly, and with greater consistency. This panel explores how patient engagement data—how patients access care, show up, prepare, and follow through—can become a practical foundation for value-based performance. Panelists will share real-world perspectives on which engagement signals matter most, how teams interpret them, and how those insights support stronger clinical, operational, and financial alignment in value-based environments.
    Where
    Palm A

  • As healthcare continues its shift toward value-based care, artificial intelligence is emerging as a powerful and multi-faceted tool for transformation. This session explores how AI is being applied in mental health delivery to improve patient engagement and clinical outcomes, reduce clinician burden, and drive financial sustainability across value-based models.

    This panel discussion will identify real-world opportunities for AI, including continuous patient engagement, measurement-based care, operational efficiency, and data-driven decision-making. At the same time, the conversation will address critical considerations such as safety and AI guardrails, clinical efficacy, patient adoption, workflow integration, and reimbursement alignment.

    Attendees will leave with a practical understanding of where AI delivers meaningful value today, where caution is warranted, and how organizations can responsibly adopt AI to support patients, providers, and payers in a value-based care environment.
    Where
    Palm B

  • Who owns outcomes inside your organization – clinical, finance, quality, or payer relations? This panel explores how leading providers structure internal teams and assign accountability for success.
    Where
    Palm CDE

  • Commercial payers and employer programs are tightening networks, revisiting utilization management and experimenting with new reimbursement formulas to manage surging demand for mental health services. This discussion will spotlight how coverage, rates and care expectations are changing across commercial plans, EAPs and hybrid payer-employer models.
    Where
    Palm A

  • Moving away from fee-for-service in behavioral health is often discussed but rarely executed at scale. In this session, Stephen Smith (NOCD) and Deb Nussbaum (Optum) pull back the curtain on a new approach that puts added risk and reward into the equation.
    Where
    Palm B

  • Reconnect with peers and deepen conversations from the day’s sessions while building new relationships with behavioral health leaders and innovators.
    Where
    Event Hub

  • A centralized service point for attendee check-in, badge collection, event materials, and general inquiries.
    Where
    Palm Foyer





  • Presented by: Brellium
    Where
    Cyprus/Dogwood

  • AI and automation are reshaping behavioral health by supporting people at every step of the care journey. From first referral and intake to documentation, care coordination and reimbursement, the right tools can ease administrative burden, strengthen decision-making and create a more connected experience for staff and those they serve.

    This session explores how organizations are thoughtfully applying AI and automation across the continuum to improve efficiency, enhance quality and build a stronger, more sustainable future.
    Where
    Palm CDE

  • In this town hall-style session to kick off Day 2 of content, provider and payer leaders will reflect on the behavioral health payment landscape and respond to insights from the previous day at VALUE. Speakers will then share further perspective on building strong provider-payer alignment and trust. The session will close with at least 10 minutes of audience Q&A.
    Where
    Palm CDE

  • Take a break to connect with fellow attendees, continue the conversation, and exchange ideas with leaders and innovators across behavioral health.
    Where
    Palm Foyer

  • In this session, BHB will sit down on-on-one with a provider leader and a payer partner for an inside look at their value-based care strategy – what has worked, what hasn’t and where future efforts will be focused.
    Where
    Palm CDE

  • With behavioral health utilization at an all-time high, the pressure is on to move from pilot programs to scalable, integrated models. This panel examines the intersection of clinical strategy and payment innovation, highlighting how evolving collaborative frameworks and specialized care delivery are creating a more sustainable, high-value health system.
    Where
    Palm CDE

  • As demand spikes, providers are landing deals directly with colleges, correctional systems and local governments to deliver tailored behavioral health services. Hear how innovators are navigating procurement, proving ROI and building relationships that bypass the traditional reimbursement grind.
    Where
    Palm A