Susan Dentzer, the nationally respected President and CEO of APG, America’s Physician Groups, the association representing physician groups participating in value-based contracting, will deliver the opening keynote address. Ms. Dentzer will give the audience a sense of this moment in federal healthcare policy, and will discuss where accountable care organizations, the Medicare Advantage program, and other forms of alternative payment mechanisms stand right now, and what the next several years in policy and payment look like, as the U.S. healthcare system moves forward into the future.