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Montana HFMA turns rural RCM pressure into action.

October 21, 2026
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October 23, 2026
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Billings, Montana
Line-art figure: a small capacity frame crowded with queued work that clears down to one item in orange, for the Montana HFMA 2026 Fall Conference event page.

Montana healthcare finance leaders compare what works.

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.

Meet Michael Bohaboy at the conference.

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.

Four operating tensions can sharpen the conference conversation.

Rural constraints make upstream accuracy a financial control.

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.

Revenue recovery should reveal why revenue was missed.

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.

Automation creates value only when the queue gets smaller.

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.

Accountability should remain visible after implementation.

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.

Bring the revenue cycle decision behind the metric.

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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