THMA 2026 Healthcare Financial Management Conferences
Engage directly with health system financial executives
Health system financial management executives, including CFOs as key decision-makers and leaders in healthcare finance, are faced with daily cash flow challenges, supply chain pressures, the risk/benefit of AI implementation, driving utilization and revenue streams. Their decisions play a critical role in the financial stability and long-term resilience of their organizations.
The opportunity to candidly discuss challenges with peers can make a significant difference in finding innovative financial and operational solutions. THMA’s healthcare financial management conferences offer a highly curated, peer-driven environment that fosters strategic collaboration and opportunities to connect with peers and industry leaders between the health system financial leaders of the US and the organizations that support them.
2026 Healthcare Financial Management Conference Dates
THMA’s conferences and forums are held in thoughtfully selected, retreat-style environments that foster candid conversations and innovative insights.
Health System Forum Members
Securing Margin Strength, Solidifying the Bottom Line
We will explore the wide range of tactics healthcare finance leaders are employing to stabilize operations and protect margins. Topics will include integrating access strategies with ambulatory and therapy services to drive value, partnering across clinical and operational teams to redesign patient access strategies that drive utilization and unlock new revenue streams, and denial prevention methodologies.
Industry executives with real-time solutions bring innovative insights to the discussion. They also provide an exploration of unsuccessful implementations that lead to the evolution of successful, practical answers to chronic issues. Ongoing evaluations are essential to measure the success and impact of these new financial strategies.
Strategic Focuses for 2026
As financial pressures intensify, THMA’s 2026 forums bring health system and industry leaders together to address core challenges in focused, retreat-style settings.
Washington Policy, Medicaid & Regulatory Navigation
THMA’s Academy Advisors provide timely insight into Washington policy shifts and their impact on reimbursement, budgeting, capital strategy, and regulatory compliance. Attendees gain practical updates on Medicaid changes, provider taxes, DSH strategies, evolving payment models, and frameworks that support long-term financial sustainability.
Technology Cost and Meaningful Application
Members will discuss the practical applications of AI in healthcare finance, including revenue cycle optimization and governance frameworks for successful implementation, with a focus on evaluating the effectiveness of each technology product in improving financial outcomes. Executives from leading health systems will share how they’re using automation, AI, and data analytics to boost team operational efficiency, improve forecasting accuracy, and navigate workforce constraints.
Who Attends Our Financial Management Conferences
Senior financial healthcare executives from the United States’ health systems and select industry partners attend our financial management conferences. They attend for the closed-door setting, where frank and open discussions can take place with senior peers, and to meet with other senior financial executives for collaboration and knowledge sharing. As one senior financial executive said, “This is where C-suite executives take the armor off, and we all benefit from that level of sharing and exploration.”
Health System Financial Decision Makers
This is an intimate, confidential space for executive-level engagement. Our carefully curated attendees include Vice Presidents of Finance and Chief Revenue Cycle Officers. C-suite executives from some of the country’s largest health care systems bring insights to strategic discussions. Executives find that THMA forums and conferences provide access to cross-functional C-suite professionals, expanding context that leads to broader conversations and insights. In addition to forums and conferences, these meetings offer valuable opportunities for strategic discussions, peer-to-peer networking, and collaborative problem-solving among healthcare finance leaders. Many members have been attending for 20 years or more because they find the right people in the right room and leave with tangible answers to vexing problems.
Healthcare Industry Executives
Solving today’s healthcare challenges requires a web of trusted partners from inside healthcare and affiliated industry partners. Discussing issues with industry executives can bring new insights and innovative solutions to seemingly intractable problems. We maintain a maximum 1:1 health system to industry attendee ratio to foster peer-to-peer interactions between senior experts. The industry executives who attend our healthcare financial management conferences attend to listen, contribute insights, and build lasting connections. These forums attract interested professionals who are eager to engage in industry discussions and collaborative problem-solving. They return year after year for the relationship building and the opportunity to gain an intimate understanding of C-suite executives’ pain points. Our members remark that the collaboration creates productive synergy.
Is a THMA Financial Management Conference Right for You?
We have opened seats and are seeking healthcare companies to join our community of health system financial decision-makers. You may be a good fit if you are:
Looking to develop long-term relationships with health system influencers and key decision makers, not just hit year-end target lead goals.
Providing an innovative solution designed to solve health system’s pressing challenges
Passionate about sharing and absorbing industry knowledge and thought leadership
A Director or higher commercial role
An organization with $25M+ in annual operating revenue
Frequently Asked Questions
What is Executive Convening?
Executive Convening is The Health Management Academy’s in-person Forum platform that brings health system C-suite leaders together with a curated group of industry executives in small, peer-focused communities. Each Forum meets in 2.5-day, retreat-style events supported by year-round research, briefings, and debriefs that help members translate conversations into commercial and strategic action.
What are THMA’s healthcare financial management conferences?
THMA’s healthcare financial management conferences are a set of Executive Convening Forums focused on health system finance leaders, including the Chief Financial Officer Forum, the Chief Revenue Cycle Officer Forum, and the Vice President of Finance Forum. These gatherings give these healthcare finance professionals and select industry partners a dedicated space to examine margin pressure, policy risk, growth strategies, and operational finance challenges together.
Which health system leaders attend these financial management Forums?
The financial management Forums convene senior executives such as Chief Financial Officers, Chief Revenue Cycle Officers, and VPs of Finance from leading health systems across the United States. A typical event includes roughly 25 to 45 health system finance leaders, often joined by emerging successors from THMA Fellowship programs, which keeps discussions rooted in real decision-making and day-to-day accountability.
Who from outside health systems are these events designed for?
These Forums are designed for senior leaders at companies whose solutions directly affect health system financial performance, such as CEOs, Chief Growth Officers, commercial leaders, and VPs overseeing finance, revenue cycle, or performance partnerships. Ideal participants are executives who can speak credibly about financial outcomes, engage as peers with CFOs and finance leaders, and commit to long-term partnership rather than transactional selling.
How are these Forums different from other healthcare financial management conferences?
THMA’s financial Forums are small, curated, and relationship-focused rather than larger exhibits at a convention center. Each event maintains a strict 1:1 ratio of health systems to industry organizations, limits industry attendees to two executives per company, and replaces exhibit halls with member-led discussions, working sessions, and reception-style networking. The emphasis is on candid peer dialogue about real financial decisions, not vendor pitches or high-volume traffic.
What kinds of topics do the financial Forums focus on?
The financial Forums focus on live issues facing healthcare finance leaders, including margin recovery, payer and policy risk (for example, OBBBA and H.R.1), Medicaid and Medicare reimbursement, site-neutral payment pressure, cost management, and population health economics. Recent agendas have included sessions on payer joint ventures, microhospital and ASC joint ventures, AI and automation in finance and revenue cycle, uncompensated care trends, and strategic financial planning in volatile environments.
How do these Forums help industry partners build relationships with CFOs and finance leaders?
The Forums are intentionally structured to create repeated, meaningful interactions between industry executives and finance leaders across sessions, small group discussions, and informal social time. Industry members can contribute perspectives in member-led sessions, participate in peer exchanges on topics like cost management and risk modeling, and continue conversations at dinners and receptions, which helps move relationships from introduction to trusted dialogue over time.
What outcomes can industry members expect from attending a financial management Forum?
Industry members typically use these events to open or deepen executive relationships, stress-test their value propositions against live CFO and finance priorities, and inform pipeline strategy with current market intelligence. Many track outcomes, such as the number of executive touchpoints, follow-up meetings scheduled, influenced pipeline, and progress on key accounts where Forum participants are signers or champions, using THMA’s debriefs and insights to support internal follow-through.
How often do the finance-focused Forums meet, and what is the format?
Each finance-focused Forum community meets twice per year in 2.5-day, in-person retreats hosted at destination venues that support focused work and informal connection. Agendas blend member-led case studies, policy and regulatory briefings, “issues forums” on topics like cost management or uncompensated care, and structured networking segments, all designed to translate market complexity into practical next steps for both health systems and industry partners.
Do these events address policy and regulatory changes affecting healthcare finance?
Yes. The financial management Forums routinely feature Washington-focused briefings and case discussions that translate new policy and regulatory shifts into financial implications for health systems. Recent sessions have explored topics such as Medicaid financing changes under OBBBA, site-neutral payment proposals, Medicare Advantage risk, and the impact of federal legislation on health system capital planning and risk management.
What year-round resources support my team beyond the in-person Forums?
Industry members gain access to the Executive Insights Hub, which includes Quarterly Trends Readouts, the Executive Edge briefing, Behind the Forum Debriefs, and Healthcare Bootcamp learning modules. These resources help sales, product, strategy, and executive teams stay current on finance leader priorities between events and share Forum insights with colleagues who were not in the room.
How are companies selected to participate in the financial management Forum communities?
THMA hand-selects industry companies for each financial Forum based on their ability to contribute meaningful thought leadership, align with health system financial priorities, and engage at an executive level. Selection emphasizes long-term partnership potential, a demonstrated commitment to improving financial sustainability and care quality, and a willingness to participate in open, peer-focused dialogue rather than transactional selling.
How should my team prepare to get the most value from a financial management Forum?
Teams get the most value when they come in with clarity on their top health system accounts, a point of view on issues such as margin recovery, policy risk, automation, or cost management, and specific questions for CFOs, RCOs, and VPFs. Members often review Executive Insights Hub content, attend the pre-Forum webinar, and align internally on target relationships and follow-up plans so that conversations in the room translate quickly into action after the event.