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Call for Experts: Medical Practice Innovation and Thought Leadership in 2026

Partner with MGMA to share your expertise in medical practice management!

Submit a proposal to the Call for Experts: open from January 6 - January 29, 2026 .

About MGMA

Medical Group Management Association (MGMA), the leading association for medical practice leaders, is marking 100 years of empowering healthcare professionals to drive innovation and positive change in 2026. With more than 60,000 members representing over 15,000 organizations of all specialties and sizes, MGMA influences nearly half of the healthcare delivery in the United States.

To highlight our centennial year, we are inviting industry experts, innovators and our members to help us celebrate a century of medical practice excellence — and help lead the next 100 years — at the 2026 MGMA Annual Conference, Sept. 27-30, 2026, in San Antonio, Texas.

Why Contribute?

Help MGMA fulfill its mission of transforming the healthcare industry by sharing your knowledge and expertise. As a trusted partner, MGMA provides insights, solutions, and advocacy to achieve medical practice excellence, offering multiple platforms for thought leaders like you to make an impact.

Thought Leadership and Innovation Opportunities for 2026

MGMA Annual Conference (Sept. 27-30, 2026, in San Antonio, Texas)

Expertise Sought in the Following Topics:

Operations, Workflow & Patient Access: Redesigning workflows, standardizing processes, improving scheduling and templates, optimizing patient access and capacity, and aligning daily operations with strategic priorities.
Financial Management & Cost Containment: Budgeting and forecasting, cost reduction without harming access or quality, service line performance, margin management, productivity models, and using benchmarks to guide decisions.
Revenue Cycle & Payer Strategy: Reducing denials and payment delays, improving front- and back-end revenue cycle performance, negotiating payer contracts, managing prior authorization and underpayments, and telling the financial “story” with dashboards and KPIs.
Workforce, Staffing & Retention: Strategies for recruiting and retaining clinical and nonclinical staff, optimizing care team roles and workloads, reducing turnover, building pipelines, and addressing burnout and morale.
Leadership, Culture & Well-Being: Leading and coaching teams, managing conflict and difficult conversations, building healthy cultures, supporting leader well-being and work–life balance, and developing emerging leaders.
Data, Analytics, AI & EHR Optimization: Collecting and reporting data, building actionable dashboards, leveraging analytics for decision-making, adopting AI and automation tools, and optimizing EHRs and other core systems to support clinicians and staff.
Patient Experience, Engagement & Growth: Improving communication and service recovery, digital front door strategies, patient portals and self-service tools, measuring experience, and connecting experience work to growth and loyalty.
Governance, Risk, Compliance & Cybersecurity: Practical approaches to regulatory and compliance updates, board and physician governance, enterprise risk management, business continuity, and protecting patient data and systems from cybersecurity threats.
Strategy, Change Management & Cross-Functional Collaboration: Strategic planning, market positioning and growth, service line or site-of-care expansion, executing change across departments or service lines, and collaborating with payer, hospital and community partners.
Value-Based Care, Population Health & Health Equity: Preparing for and managing value-based contracts and alternative payment models, care management and risk stratification, closing care gaps, and advancing health equity in ambulatory settings.

How to Submit a Proposal

Craft a concise proposal (150-200 words) with three clear learning objectives
Submit via the portal by January 29th, 2026
All participants will be notified no later than end of March 2026

Benefits to You

Amplify your voice and share your insights to help advance the profession. Don't miss this opportunity to shape the future of medical practice management!
Complimentary registration to the Annual Conference, if chosen to speak.
Developed content used for MGMA will count towards ACMPE Continuing Education based on hour-per-hour towards earning and maintaining ACMPE Board Certification and Fellowship. For ACMPE questions, please contact: acmpe@mgma.com.

Diversity Statement

The Medical Group Management Association (MGMA) values and respects diversity among its membership. This Association is committed to maintaining a climate in which differing ideas, abilities, backgrounds, and needs are fostered with an opportunity for members from divergent experiences to participate and contribute. This open environment assists MGMA in accomplishing its mission by ensuring a wide range of viewpoints and knowledge areas are actively present in our Association and strengthens networking and learning among colleagues. We welcome our members, speakers, sponsors, and attendees to encompass a full range reflecting variations in race, ethnicity, gender, religion, age, sexual orientation, nationality, disability, geographic location

This portal is not linked with any existing MGMA account and you do not need to have an MGMA account to submit a speaking proposal. To submit a proposal, you must create a user account below. We're excited to review your submission. For questions, contact Speaker@MGMA.com. Thank you for your interest!