Conferences calendar for anesthesia group owners

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Anesthesiology and subspecialty meetings

ANESTHESIOLOGY 2026 Annual Meeting

Organizer: American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA)
Upcoming dates and city: October 16-20, 2026, San Diego, California
Audience: Anesthesiologists and leaders from across the specialty.
Why an owner should attend: Use the specialty's broadest national gathering to reconnect with colleagues, spot recruiting prospects and hear where professional priorities are moving. Bring a short list of operational questions for conversations with peers and exhibitors.
Official link: ASA annual meeting

ASA ADVANCE 2027: The Anesthesiology Business Event

Organizer: American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA)
Upcoming dates and city: January 22-24, 2027, Washington, DC metro area
Audience: Anesthesiology practice owners and management leaders.
Why an owner should attend: This event is built around the business of anesthesiology. Compare practice management approaches, assess vendors against current group needs and schedule conversations with leaders who understand anesthesia operations.
Official link: ASA ADVANCE

AANA EDGE 2027

Organizer: American Association of Nurse Anesthesiology (AANA)
Upcoming dates and city: February 25-28, 2027, Dallas, Texas
Audience: Nurse anesthesia faculty, program directors and administrators.
Why an owner should attend: Owners working with CRNA teams can learn about educator and workforce priorities, meet program leaders and strengthen relationships relevant to recruiting and team development.
Official link: AANA meetings calendar

SPA-AAP Pediatric Anesthesiology 2027 Meeting

Organizer: Society for Pediatric Anesthesia (SPA) and American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP)
Upcoming dates and city: March 5-7, 2027, Nassau, Bahamas
Audience: Pediatric anesthesiologists and program leaders.
Why an owner should attend: Groups with pediatric coverage can connect with subspecialty peers and hiring networks, and discuss the business conditions that support reliable pediatric service lines.
Official link: SPA meeting information

SCA 49th Annual Meeting and Workshops

Organizer: Society of Cardiovascular Anesthesiologists (SCA)
Upcoming dates and city: April 8-11, 2027, Las Vegas, Nevada
Audience: Cardiovascular anesthesiologists and cardiac care colleagues.
Why an owner should attend: Cardiac anesthesia leaders can build referral and recruiting relationships and hear specialty perspectives relevant to maintaining a cardiac service line and its facility partnerships.
Official link: SCA annual meeting

ASRA 52nd Annual Regional Anesthesiology and Acute Pain Medicine Meeting

Organizer: ASRA Pain Medicine
Upcoming dates and city: May 13-15, 2027, Houston, Texas
Audience: Regional anesthesia and acute pain professionals.
Why an owner should attend: Owners can meet leaders who shape regional anesthesia programs. They can compare how groups organize service lines and coverage.
Official link: ASRA events and education

SAMBA 2027 Annual Meeting

Organizer: Society for Ambulatory Anesthesia (SAMBA)
Upcoming dates and city: May 6-8, 2027. City not shown on the event listing.
Audience: Anesthesia professionals working in ambulatory and office-based settings.
Why an owner should attend: ASC and outpatient group leaders can discuss scheduling, facility relationships and ambulatory service delivery with colleagues focused on the same setting.
Official link: SAMBA events

Florida Society of Anesthesiologists 2027 Annual Meeting

Organizer: Florida Society of Anesthesiologists (FSA)
Upcoming dates and city: June 11-13, 2027, Palm Beach, Florida
Audience: Anesthesiologists, residents, researchers, anesthesiologist assistants, nurse anesthetists and students.
Why an owner should attend: Florida practice leaders can build state-level relationships and hear local professional and legislative perspectives that may affect staffing and facility discussions.
Official link: FSA 2027 Annual Meeting

AANA Annual Congress 2027

Organizer: American Association of Nurse Anesthesiology (AANA)
Upcoming dates and city: August 8-12, 2027, New Orleans, Louisiana
Audience: CRNAs, nurse anesthesia residents and faculty.
Why an owner should attend: Owners employing CRNAs can meet a broad workforce and leadership audience, discuss recruitment relationships and learn about priorities affecting the profession and anesthesia teams.
Official link: AANA Annual Congress

ASRA 26th Annual Pain Medicine Meeting

Organizer: ASRA Pain Medicine
Upcoming dates and city: November 18-20, 2027, Atlanta, Georgia
Audience: Pain medicine clinicians, researchers and multidisciplinary specialists.
Why an owner should attend: Groups with pain services can build professional relationships and understand the issues that shape physician recruitment, facility coordination and service-line strategy.
Official link: ASRA pain meeting

New Mexico Society of Anesthesiologists 2027 Annual Conference

Organizer: New Mexico Society of Anesthesiologists (NMSA)
Upcoming dates and city: February 13, 2027, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Audience: Anesthesiologists and anesthesia professionals in New Mexico.
Why an owner should attend: A state meeting gives owners a smaller setting to connect with local peers, discuss market conditions and build relationships with potential recruits and referral partners.
Official link: ASA community events calendar

Illinois Society of Anesthesiologists Presidential Dinner and House of Delegates Meeting

Organizer: Illinois Society of Anesthesiologists (ISA)
Upcoming dates and city: April 2-3, 2027, Oak Brook, Illinois
Audience: Illinois anesthesiologists and society delegates.
Why an owner should attend: Owners can maintain state-level professional connections and follow issues under discussion by the state society and its delegates.
Official link: ASA community events calendar

Society for Pediatric Anesthesia 40th Annual Meeting

Organizer: Society for Pediatric Anesthesia (SPA)
Upcoming dates and city: October 16, 2026, San Diego, California
Audience: Pediatric anesthesiologists and program leaders.
Why an owner should attend: Pediatric group leaders can meet subspecialty peers and discuss the workforce and organizational relationships needed to sustain pediatric anesthesia services.
Official link: Society for Pediatric Anesthesia

Practice management and association meetings

MGMA Financial Conference 2027

Organizer: Medical Group Management Association (MGMA)
Upcoming dates and city: March 4-6, 2027, Atlanta, Georgia
Audience: Practice finance leaders responsible for financial operations.
Why an owner should attend: Compare financial methods with practice leaders. Bring back ideas for reviewing the group budget and collections reporting.
Official link: MGMA Financial Conference

MGMA Private Practice Conference 2027

Organizer: Medical Group Management Association (MGMA)
Upcoming dates and city: See organizer for dates
Audience: Independent practice owners and managers.
Why an owner should attend: Independent group leaders can compare approaches to maintaining control, strengthening operations and evaluating outside services. MGMA has announced the conference will return in spring 2027 but has not posted its date and city.
Official link: MGMA conference announcements

MGMA Operations Conference 2027

Organizer: Medical Group Management Association (MGMA)
Upcoming dates and city: May 2-4, 2027, Seattle, Washington
Audience: Medical group operations leaders.
Why an owner should attend: Owners can compare workflows, staffing approaches and operational systems with peers, then evaluate which ideas fit the group's facility contracts and coverage obligations.
Official link: MGMA conference announcements

MGMA Summit 2026

Organizer: Medical Group Management Association (MGMA)
Upcoming dates and city: December 8-9, 2026, virtual
Audience: Medical practice leaders seeking practice operations and leadership education.
Why an owner should attend: A virtual format makes it easier to include a partner or administrator. Use the sessions to identify practical questions for the group's next budget, staffing or leadership review.
Official link: MGMA Summit

MGMA Spring Conference: Tennessee MGMA 2027

Organizer: Tennessee Medical Group Management Association (Tennessee MGMA)
Upcoming dates and city: April 28-30, 2027, Gatlinburg, Tennessee
Audience: Tennessee practice managers and physician leaders.
Why an owner should attend: Local and regional practice conversations can surface operating ideas and contacts that are more relevant to an anesthesia group's state and payer environment than a national discussion alone.
Official link: MGMA state events calendar

Missouri MGMA 2027 Annual Conference

Organizer: Missouri Medical Group Management Association (Missouri MGMA)
Upcoming dates and city: May 5-7, 2027, Springfield, Missouri
Audience: Missouri practice managers and physician leaders.
Why an owner should attend: Owners can make regional connections and compare how neighboring practices handle staffing, business operations and payer interactions.
Official link: MGMA state events calendar

Georgia MGMA 2027 Annual Conference

Organizer: Georgia Medical Group Management Association (Georgia MGMA)
Upcoming dates and city: May 16-18, 2027, Hilton Head Island, South Carolina
Audience: Managers and physician owners connected to Georgia practices.
Why an owner should attend: Georgia group leaders can use the meeting to meet peers, compare management practices and expand recruiting and vendor contacts across the region.
Official link: Georgia MGMA events

Tennessee MGMA 2027 Fall Conference

Organizer: Tennessee Medical Group Management Association (Tennessee MGMA)
Upcoming dates and city: September 16-17, 2027, Franklin, Tennessee
Audience: Tennessee practice managers and physician leaders.
Why an owner should attend: A regional fall meeting can help partners refresh their network and compare the operational priorities they are seeing in local practices.
Official link: MGMA state events calendar

Coding and revenue cycle meetings

HEALTHCON 2027

Organizer: AAPC
Upcoming dates and city: March 14-17, 2027, National Harbor, Maryland; virtual option
Audience: Medical coders, billers, auditors, compliance professionals, practice managers and revenue cycle leaders.
Why an owner should attend: Bring billing and compliance leaders who can translate relevant coding sessions into a review of anesthesia documentation workflows, claim edits and denial trends.
Official link: HEALTHCON 2027

REVCON 2027

Organizer: AAPC
Upcoming dates and city: See organizer for dates
Audience: Revenue cycle professionals and healthcare business teams.
Why an owner should attend: The event is relevant to owners looking for revenue cycle education for billing leaders. AAPC has announced the 2027 event, while dates and location remain to be published.
Official link: AAPC events

RISKCON 2027

Organizer: AAPC
Upcoming dates and city: See organizer for dates
Audience: Healthcare compliance and risk professionals.
Why an owner should attend: Anesthesia partners can ask their compliance lead to track applicable sessions and bring back questions for internal review of billing controls and administrative processes.
Official link: AAPC events

DOCUCON 2027

Organizer: AAPC
Upcoming dates and city: See organizer for dates
Audience: Documentation and coding professionals.
Why an owner should attend: Documentation sessions can help a group's administrative and billing leaders identify workflow questions to review with qualified coding and compliance advisers.
Official link: AAPC events

HFMA Revenue Cycle Conference 2027

Organizer: Healthcare Financial Management Association (HFMA)
Upcoming dates and city: March 10-12, 2027, Orlando, Florida
Audience: Healthcare finance and revenue cycle leaders.
Why an owner should attend: Owners can meet payer and provider finance professionals and compare revenue cycle approaches relevant to contract performance, denial follow-up and collections.
Official link: HFMA events

HFMA Leadership Summit 2027

Organizer: Healthcare Financial Management Association (HFMA)
Upcoming dates and city: April 18-20, 2027, Atlanta, Georgia
Audience: Healthcare finance leaders and executives.
Why an owner should attend: The leadership focus can help partners and administrators examine how they communicate financial priorities, develop managers and guide teams through business changes.
Official link: HFMA events

HFMA Annual Conference 2027

Organizer: Healthcare Financial Management Association (HFMA)
Upcoming dates and city: June 27-30, 2027, Denver, Colorado
Audience: Healthcare finance professionals, revenue cycle executives and provider leaders.
Why an owner should attend: Owners can compare finance and revenue cycle tools, discuss payer trends with industry participants and identify vendor options for a deliberate follow-up review.
Official link: HFMA events

Business of medicine and healthcare leadership

ACHE 2027 Congress on Healthcare Leadership

Organizer: American College of Healthcare Executives (ACHE)
Upcoming dates and city: March 22-24, 2027, Nashville, Tennessee
Audience: Healthcare executives and organizational leaders.
Why an owner should attend: Hospital and ASC relationships are central to many anesthesia businesses. Owners can meet health system leaders and hear how executives are approaching finance and workforce change.
Official link: ACHE Congress

Becker's Healthcare 17th Annual Meeting

Organizer: Becker's Healthcare
Upcoming dates and city: April 19-22, 2027, Chicago, Illinois
Audience: Hospital, health system and healthcare business leaders.
Why an owner should attend: Owners can hear how facility executives frame strategic priorities and use the meeting to develop informed conversations with current and prospective hospital and ASC partners.
Official link: Becker's Healthcare events

Getting a return from conference time

Before registering, name the business decision or relationship the trip should support. For recruiting, identify the roles the group needs and arrange conversations with residency, fellowship or CRNA program contacts where the event audience fits. Give each attendee a short introduction to the group and a clear follow-up owner.

For vendor evaluation, bring a written list of requirements, current costs and integration questions. Ask vendors to show how their product handles the group's actual billing, staffing or reporting workflow. Record the claims to verify after the event, and compare proposals on the same scope before scheduling a demonstration.

For payer updates, ask the group's revenue cycle lead to track relevant sessions and speak with peers about administrative patterns they are encountering. Capture the source and plan names behind any policy discussion, then verify details with the payer and qualified advisers before changing a contract or workflow.

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