MGMA Financial Conference 2027: dates not yet announced
MGMA has not yet announced dates or a host city for Focus: Financial 2027. It is the most concentrated financial content MGMA offers, and the room skews toward people who actually own a P&L. Sorso is not an exhibitor, sponsor, or speaker at this event. This is an independent prep guide for practice CFOs, financial leaders, and owners who want the depth.
The CFO read
The dates being unannounced changes nothing about the preparation. This is the MGMA event that pays back fastest for anyone who owns the P&L, narrower and deeper than the Annual Conference on exactly the topics that move money. Use the waiting period to get your monthly close under 15 days. If you cannot, you have already found the most valuable thing this conference can give you: a reason to build a faster close, because everything downstream depends on current numbers.
— Stanislav Sukhinin, CFA · Founder, Sorso
What this event is
MGMA — the Medical Group Management Association — is the professional body for the people who run medical practices: administrators, executives, and increasingly the owners themselves. Alongside its national Annual Conference (formerly the Leaders Conference), it runs smaller Focus conferences that spend two to three days on a single discipline.
Focus: Financial is the finance one. The agenda concentrates on revenue cycle performance, payer contracting, cost accounting, and financial reporting for group practices. Because it is smaller and narrower than the flagship conference, the sessions go deeper and the room skews toward people who actually own a P&L.
If you are deciding between MGMA events and money is your job, this is the one to plan around. The prep checklist below is what to have in front of you before you go.
Why this matters for your bottom line
Cash flow lives and dies on revenue cycle numbers. Move your clean claim rate up one percentage point, or pull five days out of A/R, and the working capital shows up on your balance sheet within a quarter.
A CFO who walks into a payer negotiation holding benchmark data gets rate increases; one who walks in without it gets the payer's opening offer. Few activities compound the same way year over year.
The gap between practices that close monthly and practices that close quarterly is a decision-quality gap, not an accounting one. Current numbers change what owners choose to do.
Entity structure is easy to set once and never revisit. For pass-through practices, small structural changes move personal tax liability by real money, which is why the tax sessions earn their slot.
What to look for
Benchmarking sessions that name specialty-specific metric targets rather than industry-wide averages
Workshops on payer negotiations: how to prepare, what to put in writing, and when walking away from a contract is the right call
Cost accounting for practices: overhead allocation, what a visit truly costs, and which service lines carry the others
Working capital sessions aimed at practices whose payer mix makes cash unpredictable
Owner-level tax and entity structure content for partnerships and pass-throughs
KPI dashboard and reporting design scaled to practices under $50M
Financial prep checklist
Review these before you go.
Pull your four core revenue cycle KPIs (denial rate, days in A/R, clean claim rate, net collection rate) and make sure they reconcile
Count the days from month-end to a finalized P&L; that number is your close speed
List every payer contract, when it renews, and the last time the rate actually moved
Check how you allocate overhead today and what each service line's cost per visit really is
Reread your last three years of tax returns with one question: what structural change would have been worth modeling
Put your operating margin and cash position next to MGMA data for practices your size
Before MGMA Financial Conference 2027, get your own numbers straight
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A financial checkup before you go
Four minutes. See where your practice stands so every session is measured against your own numbers.
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Founder of Sorso and a CFA charterholder. Before Sorso, Stan spent 19 years in corporate finance at institutions including UniCredit and Société Générale — managing a $450M loan portfolio and making senior partner at a major mezzanine lender by 29 — then built a fractional CFO firm exclusively for outpatient healthcare clinics.