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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 29, 2026
EVENING
HGS isn’t a trade show floor, it’s a room full of physician leaders and health system executives actively planning their next chapter. Our sponsors don’t just buy exposure; they become part of the conversation, sharing the stage with the people shaping tomorrow’s healthcare landscape. Whether you’re reaching physician owners, practice leaders, or health system executives, HGS offers access that’s hard to replicate anywhere else in the industry.
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 30, 2026
MORNING
Start the day with breakfast and peer networking before the program begins.
A welcome from Montecito Medical and framing of the day ahead, the dual imperative of unlocking assets and accelerating care transformation.
Healthcare didn’t arrive at its current crossroads overnight. In this session, we’ll unpack the often-misunderstood history that shaped today’s system, explore how shifting demographics and cultural change are now driving real disruption, and outline what leaders need to understand to successfully navigate what comes next. Attendees will leave with clearer context, practical insight, and a forward-looking perspective to help their organizations adapt in a rapidly evolving healthcare environment.
GENERAL SESSION I
Reimbursement compression is squeezing the P&L, but you can’t cut your way to prosperity. This session explores how to attack margin challenges from both sides of the ledger: optimizing operations through AI and technology while unlocking balance sheet assets to fund growth and innovation.
Nashville is globally recognized as Music City, but it is equally a titan of the healthcare industry. For years, these two massive economic engines operated side-by-side—but the true magic happens when they actively intersect. By embracing a collaboration mindset, healthcare organizations can break out of traditional institutional silos and forge highly visible, emotionally resonant partnerships with the cultural pillars of their communities.
In this session, Stuart Dill draws on his unique vantage point—spanning three decades managing multi-platinum artists and his current role as Chief Marketing Officer for Vanderbilt Health. He will explore the dynamic intersection of music and healthcare, illustrating how the collaborative, storytelling-driven spirit of the entertainment industry can be utilized to build unparalleled trust and patient loyalty in medicine.
Lunch with peers and speakers. An hour built for the conversations that rarely happen inside the ballroom.
AFTERNOON
BREAKOUT SESSIONS, ROUND 1
ROUND 1 | 1:15 p.m. – 2:15 p.m
The New Era of Physician Wealth: Strategy, Equity & Optionality in a Changing Healthcare System
Physician wealth is no longer built through income alone, it is shaped by the decisions you make around equity, alignment, and capital in an increasingly complex ecosystem. This forward-looking session moves beyond siloed strategies like tax, real estate, or investing to explore how physicians can build durable, long-term wealth across any career path: independent, employed, or partnered.
What you’ll explore:
- How evolving compensation and equity models are reshaping what “physician wealth” actually means.
- Preparing for liquidity events, generational planning, and alternative investments as part of a single strategic system.
- Aligning your clinical career, ownership opportunities, and financial strategy to create flexibility, resilience, and optionality.
- The decisions to make today that compound into long-term wealth regardless of how the market shifts.
Leveraging Data to Fuel Growth
Growth decisions are interconnected. The data behind them rarely is. Most organizations can say where volume came from last quarter. Far fewer can say where demand is heading, which locations are slipping before margins show it, or where the next market opens. This session brings together physician group and health system leaders who are using data to shift from reacting to what happened to anticipating what comes next, across capacity, referral patterns, market expansion, and the performance of every square foot they occupy.
- Turning operational and market data into growth decisions:where demand is shifting, where to add capacity, and which markets to enter before competitors establish themselves.
- Spotting referral leakage and underperforming locations in the data early, rather than confronting them after the financials deteriorate.
- Making every square foot perform: using utilization and service line data to reposition space toward higher-acuity, higher-margin care as delivery becomes more distributed.
- What it takes to get there: the systems, partners, and internal discipline that turn scattered reporting into a decision-making advantage.
BREAKOUT SESSIONS, ROUND 2
ROUND 2 | 2:35 p.m. – 3:35 p.m.
The Physician Enterprise Playbook: Ownership, Alignment & Strategic Control
The traditional divide between independent practice and employment is giving way to a new reality: physicians are now operating within increasingly complex enterprise structures shaped by health systems, private equity, and hybrid partnership models. This session explores how physician enterprise is being redesigned and what that means for ownership, compensation, and long-term value creation.
What you’ll explore:
- Alignment frameworks: comparing hospital/PSA models, PE platform opportunities, MSO-backed independent networks, and large corporate affiliations.
- Monetization and succession: how to “cash out” assets while remaining clinically engaged, with real-world stories from physicians who have navigated both practice and real estate exits.
- Positioning yourself, and your organization, for performance, flexibility, and long-term success across shifting enterprise models.
- Evaluating the trade-offs between autonomy, capital, and strategic control in each partnership path.
Real Estate as a Capital Strategy
For health system executives, real estate is no longer just overhead, it is a strategic tool for innovation. Learn how alternative assets and non-clinical income can fuel system-wide goals, and how to transition from traditional facility management to a dynamic capital strategy that prioritizes high-margin services and funds urgent clinical and technology priorities.
What you’ll explore:
- Unlocking trapped capital in owned real estate to fund clinical and technology investments without adding debt.
- Identifying alternative assets and non-clinical income streams that strengthen system-wide financial performance.
- Repositioning the real estate portfolio around high-acuity, high-margin services.
- Moving from facility management to active capital strategy, and the governance and operating-model changes that requires.
GENERAL SESSION II
What actually works inside health systems right now? This session brings together health system leaders and technology experts to discuss how AI is transforming operations, workforce management, and the cost-to-collect equation, separating the proven use cases from the hype cycle.
What you’ll explore:
- Where AI is already delivering measurable ROI in billing, denials management, and the revenue cycle.
- Leveraging data and independent third parties to unlock savings on equipment, service, and supply chain.
- Managing and augmenting the clinical workforce with data insights that improve retention, staffing, and productivity.
- The legal, compliance, and risk-management guardrails every health system leader should be building now.
A closing reflection from Montecito Medical on the day’s takeaways and what comes next for the physician and health system leaders in the room.
EVENING
Gather for cocktails before dinner. A relaxed chance to continue the day’s most interesting conversations.
Close the Summit with dinner and entertainment. The evening that has long been a signature of this event.