Innovaccer Brings Xccelerate to Washington D.C., Expanding Its Annual Healthcare Leadership Forum Ahead of the NAACOS Annual Conference

The D.C. chapter event will convene health system leaders, payers, policy officials, and value-based care operators for a focused conversation on what it will actually take to make healthcare AI deliver at scale

SAN FRANCISCO & WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Innovaccer today announced that Xccelerate, its flagship annual healthcare leadership conference, is expanding beyond San Francisco with a chapter event in Washington, D.C., timed ahead of the NAACOS Annual Conference. The D.C. event brings a concentrated version of the Xccelerate conversation to the heart of healthcare policy, convening health system executives, payer leaders, ACO operators, and federal health officials for a direct exchange on what is working in value-based care and autonomous healthcare operations, and what is not.

Xccelerate has become one of healthcare's most candid annual gatherings. Each January in San Francisco, Innovaccer convenes health system C-suites, payers, state and federal health officials, pharmacy operators, and population health practitioners for two days of on-the-record conversation about the operational realities of AI adoption, care delivery transformation, and the economics of value-based care. This year's San Francisco edition produced some of the sharpest practitioner testimony the conference has heard.

• Justin Kyle, Referral Team Manager at Cone Health reported that prior authorization time in his organization had dropped from more than 30 minutes to 53 seconds, describing how the tool works from real-time payer guidelines rather than antiquated internal documents.
• Dr. Robert Wachter, Chair of Medicine at UCSF, put the market's central problem plainly: one in five patients has a chart longer than Moby Dick, and the administrative burden surrounding care has grown so large that the industry is spending money that should be going to patients on processes that should never have required human time in the first place.
• Dr. Ed Clarke, Vice President, Chief Medical Officer at Banner Health Plans & Networks, described the compounding complexity of operating across multiple systems, noting that what should be a simple equation becomes exponentially more difficult when data is fragmented across platforms.
• And, Luke Harris, Executive Director of Children's Mercy Integrated Care Solutions offered one of the most honest accounts of the road to AI adoption: two failed attempts — one sharing data, one deploying technology — before his organization discovered that aligned incentives were the actual unlock.

That is the Xccelerate conversation: practitioners naming the real problems, sharing what worked and what did not, and pushing past the industry's tendency to conference-optimize rather than solve. This year's D.C. chapter event brings that directness to Washington where the policy, payment-model, and regulatory decisions that shape every health system's reality are actually made and, timed just ahead of NAACOS, it focuses on what's happening right now: H.R.1, the largest healthcare policy shift in over a decade; the ACCESS Model's new incentives and new questions about how technology gets funded; and the mandatory value-based models raising the operational stakes for ACOs and their partners. For anyone building a sustainable model for the years ahead, what gets said in Washington now shapes the decisions that follow.

“Every year at Xccelerate, we try to create the conversation that the industry needs to have but does not always have the room for: honest, practitioner-led, and grounded in what is actually happening in organizations, not what the slide decks say,” said Abhinav Shashank, Co-Founder and CEO of Innovaccer. “Bringing that conversation to DC ahead of NAACOS puts it in the place where it can have the most immediate impact. The people in that room are building toward autonomous healthcare operations while living inside the policy shifts and payment model pressures that determine how fast that future actually arrives. That is exactly the conversation Xccelerate was built to hold.”

Xccelerate D.C. will take place on Oct 13 and 14 at the Ritz-Carlton in Washington, D.C. Registration information and agenda details are available here.

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Innovaccer makes healthcare operations autonomous, delivering better clinical and financial outcomes across health systems, payers, governments, and life sciences. Powered by the Healthcare Autonomy Platform, Innovaccer unifies enterprise data and applies AI to automate administrative work, strengthen operational performance, and drive measurable margin expansion. Organizations such as Orlando Health, Adventist HealthCare, and Banner Health trust Innovaccer to integrate intelligence into their existing infrastructure and elevate the quality of care. For more information, visit www.innovaccer.com.