Healthcare leaders do not need more activity. They need better performance - measured as outcomes.
The Montana HFMA 2026 Fall Conference takes place October 21–23, 2026, at the DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Billings. Montana HFMA positions its programming for healthcare finance professionals seeking education, professional growth, and peer connection, with chapter priorities spanning healthcare finance, revenue cycle, reimbursement, and leadership.
Vee Healthtek’s guidance for attendees is to arrive with one material outcome, the workflow evidence behind it, and a clear definition of what must change. That turns broad education into a more useful comparison of root causes, interventions, governance, and sustained results. The most useful conference comparisons will separate visible symptoms from their operating causes. A denial rate, aged accounts receivable balance, or labor increase becomes actionable only when leaders can identify the failed handoff, missing control, or unresolved exception behind it. That distinction keeps the conversation focused on decisions rather than dashboards.
Michael Bohaboy (Director of Strategic Client Growth) will attend on behalf of Vee Healthtek. Meet with him to explore where rework begins, how it moves through the revenue cycle, and what it takes to complete work correctly the first time. Compare how First-Pass Performance, technology-enabled workflows, and Open Accountability can improve cash performance, strengthen operational capacity, and keep providers in control of outcomes.
When teams have limited capacity, downstream corrections compete directly with higher-value work. Trace denials, delayed claims, and aged balances back to access, authorization, documentation, or medical coding. First-Pass Performance matters when it prevents rework before scarce staff must absorb it.
Higher collections do not prove the underlying defect is fixed. Compare how rural providers identify contractual underpayments, prevent revenue leakage, and connect recovery findings to upstream correction. The stronger model improves today’s cash while reducing the inventory that must be recovered tomorrow.
Technology should reduce touches, exceptions, and turnaround time, not shift unresolved work into another queue. Evaluate how revenue cycle technology integrates with existing systems, prioritizes work, and escalates complex cases. The financial test is whether capacity, cash timing, and cost to collect improve together.
A promising case study becomes decision-grade evidence when leaders can see the baseline, intervention, owner, and sustained outcome. Open Accountability keeps performance and corrective action inspectable. Compare whether governance exposes variance early enough to protect reimbursement, rather than explaining the result after the reporting period closes.
Together, these themes help finance andrevenue cycle leaders use the conference to test whether an idea preventsfailure, improves reimbursement, releases capacity, and remains governableafter implementation.
Complete the form to meet Michael Bohaboy in Billings and compare where upstream accuracy, disciplined technology, and visible ownership could change the financial result.
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Explore Points Of ViewThe conference is scheduled for October 21–23, 2026, at the DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Billings in Billings, Montana. The official listing describes an educational program with speakers and peer connection. Attendees should use the official event listing for current program details.
Montana HFMA serves healthcare finance professionals across the state. Its published chapter priorities include education on healthcare finance, revenue cycle, reimbursement, and leadership. The conference is therefore relevant to finance executives, revenue cycle leaders, and other professionals responsible for financial and operational performance.
A complete public agenda was not available when this page was prepared. One confirmed session involves a case study on revenue cycle improvements at Community Hospital of Anaconda. Montana HFMA also states that its educational programming addresses evolving healthcare finance, revenue cycle, reimbursement, and leadership topics.
Bring one financial result that remains under pressure and the operating evidence behind it. Identify where rework first appears, which teams absorb it, and what upstream control could prevent recurrence. This creates a stronger basis for comparing approaches with peers and presenters.
The confirmed Community Hospital of Anaconda case study places rural revenue cycle improvement within the conference conversation. Rural providers often need operating changes that can be governed with limited capacity and clear ownership. Attendees can use the event to compare which interventions improve reimbursement without creating added work.
Michael Bohaboy, Director of Strategic Client Growth, will attend for Vee Healthtek. Use the form on this page to identify the revenue cycle outcome or operating issue you want to examine. That context allows the conversation to focus on evidence, root causes, and practical response options.