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Healthcare leaders do not need more activity. They need better performance - measured as outcomes.
Healthcare leaders do not need more activity. They need better performance - measured as outcomes.
The THMA Fall 2026 Chief Financial Officer Forum takes place November 11–13, 2026, in Laguna Beach, California. The Health Management Academy describes the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) Forum as a closed-door setting for senior financial leaders from leading health systems and select industry partners. Member-driven content is designed by CFOs, with small-group discussion and executive panels intended to support candid peer exchange.
For healthcare CFOs, the forum is an opportunity to compare decision logic rather than polished transformation stories. A stronger conversation begins with one material financial tension, the operating assumptions behind it, and the evidence that would change the decision. Revenue cycle examples may include cash gains accompanied by higher cost to collect, automation that creates another queue, or denial recovery that improves while preventable denials continue.
Capital allocation should define how value will be verified after funding, not only how it was justified before approval. Compare the operating baseline, adoption evidence, cash effect, and continuing cost. Investments that transform the revenue cycle should remove a measurable constraint rather than produce activity without financial movement.
Expanding access without compromising margins requires finance to follow volume through reimbursement, labor, and avoidable work. Growth is weaker when eligibility, authorization, documentation, or payment variance creates downstream friction. Compare where patient access management protects capacity and where added demand increases rework or delays cash.
Next-generation RCM investment should be judged by what reaches cash, cost, and reimbursement. An AI tool can improve one task while adding review, exceptions, or another queue. Evaluate whether technology can scale governed workflows and whether gains remain visible after implementation, integration, and adoption costs.
Higher collections can coexist with underpayments, rising labor expense, or preventable denials. CFOs need a bridge between reported improvement and earned revenue. Compare how teams reduce revenue leakage, resolve payer variance and underpayments, and keep ownership visible until the financial outcome is complete.
Use the form to sharethe financial or revenue cycle decision you want to pressure-test againstcapital, margin, technology, and accountability priorities at the THMA CFOForum.
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