Monday, February 9, 2026

2:00 – 4:00pm
This committee of healthcare contract administration leaders meets regularly to develop key industry resources, available here.

Pre-Conference Workshop

4:00 – 5:30pm
Susan LaFountain

Susan LaFountain
Product Manager, Industry Adoption for Advanced Automation
GHX

Elizabeth Hilla

Moderator: Elizabeth Hilla
Senior Vice President, Content
HIDA

Whether you’re new to healthcare contract administration or a longtime veteran, this pre-conference networking and education event is for you! We’ll take a close look at the most common processes involved in pricing management and chargebacks, and share resources you can use every day. This introductory workshop provides a foundational overview of contract administration principles and practices in the healthcare supply chain, preparing attendees to engage with conference programming.

5:30 – 7:00pm

Meet the fellow contract administration leaders you'll be working with to improve pricing accuracy, advance best practices, and more. Arrive early and join us Monday evening for the Welcome Reception. Enjoy cocktails, hors d'oeuvres, and great conversation as you reconnect with colleagues and meet new industry peers. It’s a relaxed way to ease into the week and set the stage for meaningful connections.

Tuesday, February 10, 2026

7:30 – 8:30am

Start the day with a good breakfast — and start 2026 with good partnership-building.

8:30 – 10:00am
Opening General Session
Charting The Future Of Contract Administration
Joe Walsh

Joe Walsh
Founder
Supply Chain Sherpas

Join Joe Walsh from Supply Chain Sherpas for an engaging opening session that takes the pulse of the contract administration profession. Through interactive polling, table talk discussions, and industry insights, Joe will explore where the contract admin function stands today, emerging trends shaping the field, and the leadership skills needed to elevate your impact within your organization. You'll have the opportunity to share strategies and challenges with peers while Joe facilitates conversation around navigating evolving compliance requirements, advocating for your team's value, and advancing your career in an increasingly complex healthcare supply chain landscape.

10:00 – 10:10am

See how the latest tech can improve pricing accuracy and contracting processes.

10:10 – 10:40am

Take advantage of multiple opportunities to recharge and network.

10:40 – 11:50am
Priya Gismondi

Priya Gismondi
Sr. Director & GM, Channel and Specialty Data Services
IQVIA MedTech

Susan LaFountain

Susan LaFountain
Product Manager, Industry Adoption for Advanced Automation
GHX

Jesse Throgmorton

Jesse Throgmorton
Director, Global Business & Financial Services – Medical Chargebacks
Cardinal Health

In this power-packed session, industry leaders will share rapid-fire best practices that set the benchmark for contracting standards.

11:50am – 12:00pm

See how the latest tech can improve pricing accuracy and contracting processes.

12:00 – 1:15pm

Explore new technologies and build new partnerships that can transform your contract administration processes.

Breakout Sessions

1:15 – 2:05pm
Jessica Penizotto

Jessica Penizotto
Associate Vice President, Commercial Excellence
Baxter International, Inc.

Annette Blumer
Senior Manager, Contract Administration
Baxter International, Inc.

Price activation is the process through which a customer requests eligibility for qualifying contract tiers. This interactive session will build on industry efforts to improve this process by exploring Baxter's work with GPO partners, examining key challenges in price activation workflows, discussing strategies to bridge the gap between customer expectations and supplier capabilities, and identifying best practices for managing requests, approvals, and implementation.

1:15 – 2:05pm
Susan LaFountain

Susan LaFountain
Product Manager, Industry Adoption for Advanced Automation
GHX

Kendyl Moore

Kendyl Moore
Manager, Global Business and Finance Services – Medical Chargebacks
Cardinal Health

If you want to improve chargeback communications, it’s time to adopt the EDI formats custom-designed for these transactions.

  • Compare the benefits of using the 844 vs the 867 for chargeback requests
  • Understand how the 849 can enable trading partners to resolve issues and reconcile more quickly
  • Move beyond the basics and understand how to make it happen
1:15 – 2:05pm
Erica McDaniel

Erica McDaniel
Senior Director, Continuum of Care Contract Operations
Premier, Inc.

Determining customer eligibility for the various tiers of GPO contract pricing is hard — and even harder in non-acute and post-acute markets. This working session will explore ways to overcome the challenges through better collaboration among trading partner

  • Share your experiences with non-acute eligibility challenges, such as locations rostered with multiple GPOs and those thorny class-of-trade discrepancies
  • Identify the steps necessary to get customers on appropriate tiers
  • Identify where eligibility identification standards don’t exist and should
  • Create a roadmap for improvement

Breakout Sessions

2:15 – 3:05
Ashley York

Ashley York, Lean Six Sigma Black Belt
Manager, Medical Chargebacks & Pricing
Cardinal Health

Lean focuses on streamlining processes and removing non-value-added activities – exactly what’s needed in the world of contract administration.

  • Learn Lean principles and tools
  • Participate in small group activities to witness lean six sigma benefits
  • Take home a toolkit you can use to make your processes leaner
2:15 – 3:05
David Quattlebaum

David Quattlebaum
Partner
MedProcure, LLC

Managing contracts and pricing for non-hospital customers like physician offices or nursing homes is a monster challenge. In this session, get ideas for taming the beast by effectively managing contract expirations. We’ll discuss:

  • Why contract expirations, renewals, and rollovers create so many opportunities for errors and rework – especially on the non-acute side
  • How to manage and automate each step using EDI or APIs
  • What matters most when loading pricing and eligibility
  • Who manages communications with providers, and ensures that they are correctly assigned to tiers and classes of trade
  • Why roster management is so critical, and how to do it better
2:15 – 3:05

Explore and develop a key contracting resource in a focused small group with plenty of time for open conversation. Share questions, ideas and experiences!

3:05 – 3:30pm

Take advantage of multiple opportunities to recharge and network.

3:30 – 4:00pm

Join a roundtable with a cross-section of contract admin professionals — distributors, manufacturers, GPOs, providers, and tech solution experts — to share your experiences, hear new perspectives, and better understand how your processes affect supply chain partners.

4:00 – 4:45pm
Sean Bubernak

Sean Bubernak
Director, Master Data & Contract Administration
Advent Health

Omar Devlin

Omar Devlin
Executive Director, Supply Chain Planning & P2P
Stanford Medicine

Tina Nam

Tina Nam
Director, Strategic Sourcing & Contract Administration
Parkland Health

Industry leaders discuss key contracting considerations from the provider perspective, including contract compliance, multi-source versus single-source strategies, pricing alignment, and other critical factors that influence successful supplier-provider partnerships.

4:45 – 5:00pm

See how the latest tech can improve pricing accuracy and contracting processes.

5:00 – 6:00pm
Tech Solutions Happy Hour

Network and explore new technologies that can transform contract administration.

6:00pm
Free Evening For Networking Dinners

Gather a group of new friends and explore local attractions while continuing to build valuable connections.

Wednesday, February 11, 2026

7:30 – 8:30am

Start the day with a good breakfast — and start 2026 with good partnership-building.

8:30 – 9:15am
Tony Pericle

Tony Pericle
Founder
ProfitOptics

Claim discrepancies require skilled knowledge workers to manually reconcile data across multiple systems, a time-consuming and error-prone process. In this session, you’ll see how Generative AI can be used to parse the details of a pricing discrepancy and pull relevant data from disparate sources to create a clear, supportable response.

  • See a demonstration of how this works
  • Find out how to design and implement the model, including the secure data environment, LLM selection, and other operational considerations
  • Understand how the system can increase accuracy while reducing labor costs across the contract administration lifecycle.

Breakout Sessions

9:25 – 10:25am
Kelly Vincent

Kelly Vincent
Director, Commercial Contract Operations
BD

Explore solutions for addressing chargeback rejections caused by late notifications between distributors and manufacturers.

9:25 – 10:25am
Usher Klein

Usher Klein
CEO
Finesse Contracts

For contract administrators, precision matters —but in non-acute markets, success also means enabling sales teams to identify and secure the most competitive pricing tiers for their customers.

  • Discuss the obstacles that keep customers from accessing the best tiers
  • Consider new ways to help reps deliver better pricing for non-acute providers
  • Explore how AI and other tech tools can quickly identify accounts that should be elevated to higher tiers based on current spend, and flag opportunities to consolidate purchases to access higher tiers
9:25 – 10:25am
Melanie Proctor

Melanie Proctor
VP, Supply Chain Data Management
Premier, Inc.

Elizabeth Hilla

Elizabeth Hilla
Senior Vice President, Content
HIDA

Explore a key contracting challenge in an interactive workshop group with plenty of time for open conversation. Share questions, ideas and experiences!

10:25 – 10:45am

Take advantage of multiple opportunities to recharge and network.

10:45 – 11:30am
Fix-It Forum

Peer-to-peer roundtable conversations. Bring your most challenging current contract admin headache to the table. Whether it's a recent error or a common error or dispute that has you stumped, share it with peers who get it. Learn from others who've been there, swap strategies, and leave with practical insights you can actually use.

11:30am – 12:00pm
Table Insights, Action Items, And Wrap Up
12:00 – 1:15pm
This committee of healthcare contract administration leaders meets regularly to develop key industry resources, available here.

Agenda subject to change.

“As a provider, this was an extremely informative conference because I got to hear perspectives from distributors and suppliers...We are all working towards the same goal, and have the same if not similar limitations. The conference is a good way to bring us all together for excellent collaboration.” — Healthcare Provider Attendee