Winning with Quality: How HEDIS & Stars Drive Payer Decisions

​Care management, SDOH programs, navigation tools, and digital therapeutics ultimately roll up into one thing: Quality Performance.

​For payers, HEDIS and Stars are not just reporting frameworks. They shape executive priorities, budget decisions, contracting timelines, and which vendors get a meeting in the first place.

​Join Tarek Marei and Demi Radeva for a candid and practical discussion about how health plans think about quality. You will learn how leaders identify gaps, choose external partners, and decide whether a solution can meaningfully move their measures. The session explains the financial incentives, operational realities, and strategic pressures that guide quality decision-making and shows why even strong products are often overlooked if they do not clearly support these goals.

​In this session, you will learn how to:

• ​Understand how HEDIS and Stars influence payer priorities, budgets, and vendor selection

• ​Identify which quality gaps create real opportunities for external solutions

• ​Translate clinical or operational impact into a payer-ready ROI narrative

• ​Navigate internal payer dynamics, including clinical, finance, and build-vs-buy decision-making

• ​Position your solution as a driver of measurable quality improvement rather than another point solution

​You will leave with a clearer understanding of how to speak the language of quality teams, how to design an ROI story that resonates with payer stakeholders, and how to align your solution with the measures that actually drive decisions.

​What to expect: This is a live, interactive session focused on practical insights rather than theory. Attendees will receive access to the slide deck and the full recording following the session.