Cooper Zelnick

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.

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.