Lunch is exclusively for Board members

Exclusively for Board members

Exclusively for Board and NPLC members

Open to NPLC members and their respective coalition leader

Open to NPLC employer members and their respective coalition leader

Key Participant Benefits:

• Extend private networking opportunities with highly experienced, likeminded influencers
• Align NPLC strategies to ensure maximum reach and influence

Open to NPLC and everyone attending the Coalition Member meeting

Employer representatives are invited to attend this meeting alongside coalition members

Key Participant Benefits:

• Reconnect with coalition community members from across the country
• Learn about coalition initiatives for reshaping the future of healthcare
• Contribute to stabilizing and advancing the coalition movement to create thriving organizations

Open to NHLC members, coalitions, employer representatives, and invited guests.

A Networking Event!

Open to all attendees

The pharmaceutical supply chain is complex, costly, and burdened by intermediaries that drive up prices while obscuring transparency. Rising drug costs and opaque pricing demand a new approach. This session explores a direct-to-consumer, direct-to-employer pharmaceutical model designed to eliminate middlemen, increase transparency, and align incentives around patient access and employer value.

Discover how we’re leading efforts to navigate this evolving landscape and provide actionable guidance to shape employers’ next steps.

Explore how employer-aligned primary care models improve access, reduce complexity, and deliver predictable costs with mental health care built directly into the primary care experience. Attendees will learn how simplifying primary care benefits and delivering care in convenient, employer-directed settings enhances the employee experience, strengthens care coordination, and reduces unnecessary spending. The discussion will also highlight how these strategies minimize time away from work, increase utilization of high-value care, and ultimately drive better health outcomes, greater productivity, and more efficient healthcare investment.

With hospitals accounting for 50 cents of every dollar spent in the commercial market, employers are looking for alternative pathways to affordable hospital-based care. This session examines the shift from traditional hospital networks to direct contracting partnerships that prioritize value, quality, and transparency. Attendees will learn how employers can build collaborative relationships with hospitals to control costs, enhance care coordination, and improve outcomes for their workforce.

Open to all attendees

This closing session brings together the day’s key themes to show how employers are reshaping healthcare through direct, transparent, and aligned strategies. From new approaches to pharmacy distribution to employer-driven primary care models and direct contracting with hospitals, attendees will see how these innovations connect to reduce costs, simplify the system, and improve outcomes.

The session will highlight how taking a more active role in healthcare design and delivery enables employers to move beyond fragmented solutions toward a more cohesive, high-value strategy that benefits both organizations and their employees.

Open to NHLC members, coalition partners, employer representatives, and invited guests

Key Participant Benefits:

• Develop joint solutions to address the effects of the current political and economic climate on employers/purchasers and the healthcare industry
• Discover emerging and proven strategic initiatives to better leverage shared purchasing power to reshape the future of healthcare

Discuss how the National Alliance’s partnership with the National Purchaser Leadership Council and the Medical Director Advisory Council informs and guides priority projects and events that align with the Strategic Framework and respond to employer needs. 

Exclusively for NHLC members, coalitions, coalition employer members, and invited guests