Your financial prep guide for MGMA Operations Conference 2027
MGMA has not yet announced the dates or host city for Focus: Operations 2027. The content is operational, but every operational decision has a financial consequence, and the owners who translate between the two get the most out of the room. Sorso is not an exhibitor, sponsor, or speaker at this event. This is an independent prep guide for practice administrators and operations leaders.
The CFO read
Finance and operations are one subject wearing two vocabularies. A minute saved or a visit added is a dollar amount, and the administrators who do that translation get the most out of this event. While the dates are open, put a dollar figure on your three worst operational pain points. Then every session either moves one of those numbers or it does not deserve your hour.
— Stanislav Sukhinin, CFA · Founder, Sorso
What this event is
MGMA — the Medical Group Management Association — is the professional body for medical practice administrators and executives. Its Focus conferences each spend two to three days on a single discipline; this one covers operations.
Expect content on scheduling and patient access, staffing models, front-office workflow, and the operational metrics that determine whether a practice runs smoothly or burns out its staff. It is built for administrators and operations leads rather than clinicians.
The reason a finance-focused firm tracks an operations conference: every operational metric in that agenda has a dollar consequence, and the owners who translate between the two get more out of the event than anyone else in the room.
Why this matters for your bottom line
You cannot set reimbursement rates, but you do set visit throughput, no-show handling, and staffing. That makes operations the profit lever that is actually in your hands.
Revenue follows access. When patients can get an appointment quickly, panels grow; time-to-third-next-available is the metric that separates growing practices from stalled ones.
Staffing is the biggest line in the budget, and both directions of error cost you: overstaffed burns cash, understaffed burns capacity. Getting the ratios right is worth six figures a year even at mid-size.
Treat the EHR as a financial project. Every minute a cleaner template saves a provider is another visit slot per day somewhere in the schedule.
What to look for
Scheduling and patient-access sessions that put numbers on throughput
Staffing-ratio workshops broken out by specialty
Automation and EHR content with before-and-after time data; skip anything that is a vendor pitch in disguise
Sessions on cutting no-shows, with the revenue math for different patient populations
Check-in and front-office redesign you can actually implement, playbook included
Patient-experience content that connects to money: referrals, retention, reviews
Financial prep checklist
Review these before you go.
Convert no-shows and late cancels from a percentage into dollars of empty slots per month
Measure time-to-third-next-available by provider and by visit type
Count support staff per provider FTE, billers per provider, and MAs per exam room, then question each ratio
Compare visits per provider per day across your providers and study the gap between the top and the bottom
Pick your three highest-volume visit types and audit their EHR templates end to end
Line your operational numbers up against MGMA medians for your specialty and size
Before MGMA Operations Conference 2027, get your own numbers straight
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A financial checkup before you go
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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.