#262 - ASHHRA27 Preview: San Antonio's JW Marriott Hill Country, May 16-18 2027, and the 15-Partner AP3 Program

Luke is on the road, so Bo sits down with ASHHRA Executive Director and CEO Jeremy Sadlier for a different kind of Weekly News Drop: the news is ASHHRA's own. Registration for ASHHRA27 is open, and the two of them walk through what the conference will feel like and how the ASHHRA Preferred Partner Program is built to lower what healthcare HR pays for everything it buys.

🤠 One Campus, Everybody You Meet Is ASHHRA

ASHHRA27 runs May 16-18, 2027 at the JW Marriott San Antonio Hill Country, with sessions, rooms, and restaurants in one place instead of a convention center and a scatter of hotels. Jeremy calls it the nicest venue in his tenure, with rooms still under $300. The Riverwalk is a 30 to 40 minute ride if you add a day.

Key Takeaway: The elevator, the dinner table, the spa, and the TPC course are all full of people who do your job. Nobody is more than an arm's length from a peer.

https://ashhra.org/ashhra27/

🎓 Education by Practitioners, for Practitioners

The committee leaned toward abstracts from working healthcare HR leaders over business partners this year. Expect the Savannah summit conversations on stage: a clinical workforce aging out, benefit costs that are becoming untenable, GLP-1 coverage as a hiring differentiator, and where AI replaces work and how to redeploy the people who did it. The AP3 partners get their own row in the hall, and the puppies are at the end of it.

💲 How AP3 Bends the Cost Curve

Jeremy built the program after watching reimbursement fall while costs like stop-loss rose 20 to 50 percent for some systems. Fifteen vetted partners across ten categories, from contingent labor and medical plan risk to GLP-1 management and workforce wellbeing, offer discounts and incentives that you unlock by mentioning AP3. Membership is not required, and no GPO is coming.

Action: Treat the contracted incentive as your starting point, not your ceiling. The first organization to use the program negotiated down from there and signed.

HR Risk: Bo runs every partner through a six-domain diligence scan, legal, security, corporate and financial, market, healthcare credibility, and workforce culture, before a contract is offered, and again every six months.

https://ap3.info

🔎 This Week's 3 Mission-Critical Moves

Register for ASHHRA27 while the room block is open. Scroll the ten categories on AP3.info before your next vendor renewal. Send Bo or Jeremy the name of a partner you already trust and would recommend to a peer.