ACAP CEO Summit 2026

Three years at the ACAP CEO Summit, and the mood has shifted. This year's conversations were about pressure: eligibility redeterminations, work requirements, RADV audits, premium compression, FWA scrutiny, all landing at once on plans built for mission, not margin.

But the CEOs in the room were not defensive. They were asking the same sharp question: how do we do more for members with less?

My takeaway: AI is the first technology that lets a 50,000-member plan outperform a 5-million-member one. Not by automating members away, but by reaching the ones no one has heard from and making every member engagement count. Community plans have always had the relationship. Now they have the reach.

Thanks to Meg Murray and the Association for Community Affiliated Plans (ACAP)
and the ACAP team for building a room where CEOs say what they think. And a pleasure to spend the time with my Elderplan/HomeFirst colleagues David Wagner, Eni Bakallbashi, and Laura Niland.

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