Resilience and Reform: Navigating Career Change and Federal Healthcare Policy (W6011)-Resilience and Reform Navigating Career Change and Federal Healthcare Policy Recording

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The Georgia Society for Managed Care opened its first sponsored webinar of 2026, previewing an annual conference (Oct. 27–30 at Brasstown Valley Resort) and a planned May webinar on new Georgia Department of Community Health CMO agreements and expected contracting impacts.<br /><br />Speaker Rich Sanders discussed resilience and navigating professional change, noting healthcare’s constant flux (mergers, acquisitions, payer shifts, regulation). He described retiring from full-time healthcare law in May 2024 to focus on ministry, after years balancing law, teaching at Emory, Navy Reserve service, and seminary. He framed career shifts as either internally driven (personal choice) or externally driven (market events, health, family circumstances).<br /><br />Key advice: “Start with why,” then evaluate mission and risk. He highlighted three common barriers to change: internal mindset/heart, public perception and identity (“you’re a lawyer—that’s what you do”), and family impact. He encouraged proactive planning and storytelling, involving family in decisions, and preparing financially; he recommended Kiplinger Personal Finance and referenced the “Retirement Spy” resource.<br /><br />In Q&A, Sanders said the scariest part of major change is potentially letting family down. He closed with two healthcare updates: proposed bipartisan legislation to stabilize Medicare physician payment updates, and ongoing antitrust-related lawsuits involving MultiPlan.

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Georgia Society for Managed Care

2026 sponsored webinar

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Georgia Department of Community Health CMO agreements

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Medicare physician payment stabilization and MultiPlan antitrust lawsuits