Your financial prep guide for AAPC HEALTHCON 2026
Your billing team is heading to the Gaylord Texan near Dallas. Make sure they come back with answers to the questions that actually move your bottom line. Sorso is not an exhibitor, sponsor, or speaker at this event — this is an independent prep guide for clinic owners.
Why this matters for your bottom line
Coding updates directly impact reimbursement. A single modifier change on a high-volume CPT can meaningfully shift revenue on affected procedures, which is why clinics send their billing teams in the first place.
Denial rates are one of the most-watched outpatient benchmarks. HEALTHCON sessions on denial management are worth attending with your own denial data in hand so you can compare specifics rather than generalities.
CMS updates for the following year are previewed here. If you wait until January to learn about rate changes, you have lost months of planning time.
Your billing staff will hear about tools and workflows that could reduce days in A/R. The ROI only materializes if leadership understands what was learned and authorizes changes.
What to look for
Sessions on E/M coding updates and how they affect multi-specialty clinics
Denial management workshops, especially payer-specific appeal strategies
Revenue cycle automation tools and their realistic payback periods
Compliance sessions on 2027 CMS fee schedule changes
Coding accuracy benchmarking: how your error rate compares to your own trailing twelve months
Financial prep checklist
Review these before you go.
Reconcile your top 20 CPTs by volume against payer allowables and flag the underpayers
Audit your denial buckets: break last-12-months denials down by reason code and by payer
Map your days in A/R trend over the last 12 months and identify the aging bucket that is growing
Price your cost-to-collect: total billing cost divided by net collections, and whether it is moving up or down
Pull the last coding audit results. If there isn't one, schedule one before the conference so you can compare notes
Pressure-test your clean claim rate against your own historical best. A one-point lift is real money
From our CFO
Most clinic owners send their billing staff to Healthcon and never see a report on what they learned. Set three specific questions before they go: What is our denial rate vs. the benchmark? Which payer is underpaying us the most? What one workflow change would save the most time? If they come back with those answers, the conference paid for itself.
Get a financial checkup before AAPC HEALTHCON 2026
Take the 4-minute financial assessment. Know your numbers before you attend, so you can ask better questions and make better decisions.