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Early Bird Ends March 25
Limited to 40 Executive Leaders
Is your Behavioral Health Service Lines Positioned for Future Growth and Success?
Behavioral Health is no longer a side service line — it is a strategic imperative for every hospital and health system. The organizations that are winning in this space are not reacting to pressures; they are proactively building scalable, financially sustainable behavioral health models.
On April 23–24 in Charlotte, we will convene 40 senior leaders for 1.5 days of candid executive dialogue at the 6th Annual Behavioral Health Business Summit, co-hosted with Atrium Health. This is not a traditional conference. It is a curated, executive-level working room focused on strategy, growth, access, reimbursement, and operational performance — followed by an exclusive behind-the-scenes tour of Atrium Health’s behavioral health facilities.
If behavioral health is a priority in your organization’s strategic roadmap, this is the room you need to be in. Spots are extremely limited, and will historically sell out.
Early Bird Ends March 25
SPECIAL THANKS TO OUR EVENT PARTNERS
Atrium Health Site Tour
A highlight of this year’s summit will be an exclusive, behind-the-scenes tour of Atrium Health’s state-of-the-art behavioral health facilities, offering rare insight into one of the nation’s most advanced behavioral health programs.
Attendees will have the opportunity to tour Atrium Health Behavioral Health Interventional and Neurocognitive Psychiatry (INP Suite & C/A PHP), and the Child & Adolescent Partial Hospitalization Program. Round trip transportation from/to hotel hospital will be provided. There is no additional fee for the tour.
Speaker Faculty (List below is in progress and subject to change)
Opening Remarks/Keynote - Lisa McCanna, Senior Vice President, Behavioral Health, Atrium Health
Steve Merz, MHSA, FACHE, Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, Sheppard Pratt Solutions
Eva McNeill, Assistant Vice President, Behavioral Health Outpatient Services, Atrium Health
Lloyd Berg, PhD, ABPP, Clinical Professor, Division Chief of Psychology, Dept of Psychiatry & Behavioral Science, Dell Medical School at The University of Texas at Austin
Eric Alcera, MD, President, Behavioral Health Service Line, Inova Health
Samuel “Tony” Sears, MD, Vice President, Behavioral Health Service Line, OSF Healthcare
Courtney Miller, Director, Behavioral Health Service Line, OSF Healthcare
Kyle W. Boerke, PsyD, Director of Behavioral Health, OSF Ambulatory Services
Donnie Mitchem, Director, Outpatient Therapy, Atrium Health
Jennifer Ziccardi, Chief Nurse Executive, Atrium Health Behavioral Health Service line
Micah Krempasky, MD, Chief Medical Officer, Mental Health at WakeMed
Ed Norris, MD, Physician in Chief, Psychiatry Institute at Novant Health
Paula Bird, Vice President, Psychiatry and Mental Health Institute at Novant Health
Daniel Wilcox, Assistant Vice President, Behavioral Health Service Line Revenue Cycle
Michael Genovese, MD, JD, Chief Medical Officer, Board Member, Access TeleCare
Leopoldo Vocalan, MD, Chair, Department of Psychiatry, Lancaster General Hospital
Steve Palatucci, Manager Advisory Services & Business Development, Behavioral Health Service Line, Atrium Health
Brian Wenger, MHA, LPC, CAADC, Manager Behavioral Health, Penn State Lancaster Health
Melissa Rivera, PMHNP, APRN, MSN, Psychiatric-Mental Health Nurse Practitioner, Suvida Healthcare
Kevin Dunne, Principal, Dunne Consulting Group
Katie Kaney, Strategic Advisor, Founder, Whole Person Index, CEO, LovEvolve
And many others ...
PRICING
EARLY BIRD RATE (Register by March 18)
$995 USD per person
$1,195 (After March 19)
Who You Will Meet
This summit is designed for senior behavioral health leaders, including:
VPs, Executive Directors, and Administrative Leaders of Behavioral Health; Medical Directors and Chiefs of Psychiatry; Chief Operating Officers and Service Line Leaders; Directors of Behavioral Health Operations and Strategy; Business Development and Growth Leaders within health systems and hospitals
Topics To Be Discussed (subject to change)
- National Trends in Behavioral Health Crisis Care - Review the current state pressures in Behavioral Health / Discuss expected trends in BH's future state
- Starting a BH Service Line with Interventional Neurocognitive Services
- Rural Youth Mental Health Services in the School Setting (K-12 & Higher Ed)
- The Business of Behavioral Health Service Lines: Creating Pathways for Success
- Overcoming the Obstacles to Value-Based Behavioral Healthcare: Practical Guidance for Payers, Providers & Employers
- Building a Cost-Effective Advanced Practice Workforce
- Approaches to delivering cost effective and timely psychiatric care in the emergency department
- Overcoming challenges to insufficient reimbursement issues -specifically for behavioral health/addiction services
- Improving Access to Behavioral Health Service Lines
- Building an Integrated Behavioral Health Program from the Ground Up — Improving care coordination by integrating BH into primary care and ED
- Discuss impact of regulatory and clinical advances on the future delivery of BH services
- Build alternative crisis services / crisis stabilization units
- Examining costs, utilization, and population trends in BH service lines
- Important role of tele health -improving access to psychiatric care and reducing wait times by utilizing emerging virtual care methods
- Technology advancements –tele-psych, teletherapy, BH navigation systems and other electronic tools
- Recruitment and retention of behavioral health providers
- Strategies for overcoming the financial, technological, and compliance challenges
- Identifying community partnerships to develop funding opportunities to start successful, self-sustaining programs
- Examine the different metrics for evaluating program financials
- Setting up and managing a crisis stabilization unit for psychiatric patients in crisis/psych emergency services – performance metrics
- Reimbursement / Billing
- Medicaid / Medicare / private insurance/ New updates
- Strategies to handle the overwhelming demand in children and adolescents needing services
- And many more other topics of interest!
Session Start/End Times
Why Attend
- Experience exclusive behind-the-scenes access to Atrium Health’s behavioral health facilities
- Learn how leading health systems are expanding and scaling BH services
- Gain practical, real-world strategies you can implement immediately
- Participate in candid, closed-door discussions with peer executives
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Build meaningful connections in a highly curated, executive-only environment
Attendance is limited. Early registration is strongly encouraged.
Venue (Book by March 25 to receive the group rate)
Charlotte Marriott SouthPark
2200 Rexford Rd, Charlotte, NC 28211
$169.00 USD per night
Last Day to book for group rate: March 25, 2026
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