Practice Innovation Summit
About the Event
Date:November 6–7, 2026
Location:Orlando, FL
Credit:CME: 8.75, ABIM MOC: 8.75
On Demand:Available
The ACR Practice Innovation Summit 2026 is designed for rheumatology professionals seeking practical strategies to strengthen independent and community-based practice. The summit will feature expert-led sessions focused on practice management, reimbursement, workforce challenges, value-based care, advocacy, technology integration, operational efficiency, patient access, and financial sustainability.
Attendees will engage with thought leaders and peers in an interactive environment designed to foster collaboration, innovation, and real-world problem solving for rheumatology practices.
Target Audience
Rheumatologists, physicians, advanced practice providers, practice administrators, healthcare executives, billing and coding professionals, and other healthcare professionals involved in rheumatology practice operations and patient care.
Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this activity, participants should be able to:
- Identify operational and financial strategies to improve rheumatology practice sustainability
- Discuss emerging reimbursement and payment models impacting rheumatology practices
- Evaluate approaches to improving patient access, workforce recruitment, and care delivery
- Describe innovative technologies and practice tools that support operational efficiency and quality improvement
- Apply advocacy and policy strategies relevant to independent and community-based rheumatology practice
Registration Note: The Practice Innovation Summit is an add-on course to ACR Convergence 2026. While it is encouraged, ACR Convergence registration is not required to attend the Practice Innovation Summit, nor is it included. The Summit requires a separate fee to attend.
2025 Meeting Information
If you attended the 2025 meeting, see meeting resources and claim credit in the ACR Education Center.
Program Schedule & Syllabi
ACR Convergence 2026 Online Program
Practice Innovation Summit Program 2026 Schedule
Registered attendees can access the syllabi during the meeting and for 12 months after the meeting. To access syllabi, login and go to My Learning.
Registration Fees
ACR/ARP Member
Early Bird (through August 26)
ACR/ARP Member: $599
ACR/ARP Transitional Member: $0
Regular (through November 6)
ACR/ARP Member: $699
ACR/ARP Transitional Member: $0
Nonmember
Early Bird (through August 26): $699
Regular (through November 6): $799
ACR/ARP Members: Bundle Practice Innovation Summit registration with purchase of an ACR Convergence In Person Pass or ACR Convergence In Person Plus Pass to receive a $100 discount!
Registration Guidelines
Full payment is due at the time of registration.
Cancellations and Refund Request
Please refer to the ACR Convergence 2026 registration page for full cancellation and refund request details.
Hotel & Travel
Press Registration
The American College of Rheumatology welcomes members of the press to write about research presented at our meetings. Complimentary registration is provided to approved members of the press to allow them to attend sessions on site.
Press registration details coming soon.
Acknowledgement of Commercial Support
No commercial support was provided for this activity.
Continuing Education (CE)
Accreditation Statement
In support of improving patient care, the American College of Rheumatology is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team. Provider number: 0003797
Designation / Credit Statements
Physicians (ACCME)
The American College of Rheumatology designates this Live Activity for a maximum of 8.75 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activities.
For more information, download the AMA PRA Booklet.
See the ACR's CE Mission Statement >
CME & CE credit must be claimed by September 30, 2027, at 11:59 PM ET.
Maintenance of Certification (MOC)
MOC Recognition Statement: American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM)
Successful completion of this CME activity, which includes participation in the evaluation component, enables the participant to earn up to 8.75 MOC points in the American Board of Internal Medicine’s (ABIM) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program. It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit.
By completing this activity, you provide the ACR permission to share completion data with the ACCME and the certifying boards above.
After submitting a reflective statement with key takeaways from the meeting, MOC points will be applied for ABIM diplomates to the ABIM diplomate number and date of birth provided when you registered. Points are sent nightly to ACCME and then transferred to the ABIM Physician Portal. Please allow at least 48 hours for points to display in the portal.
MOC points must be claimed by September 30, 2027, at 11:59 PM ET.
ACR Disclosure Statement
It is the policy of the American College of Rheumatology (ACR) to ensure that Continuing Education (CE) activities are independent and free of commercial bias. To ensure educational content is objective, balanced, and guarantee content presented is in the best interest of its learners' and the public, the ACR requires that everyone in a position to control educational content disclose all financial relationships with ineligible companies within the prior 24 months. An ineligible company is one whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients. Examples can be found at accme.org.
In accordance with the ACCME Standards for Integrity and Independence in Accredited Continuing Education, ACR has implemented mechanisms prior to the planning and implementation of this CE activity to identify and mitigate all relevant financial relationships for all individuals in a position to control the content of this CE activity.
Nature of Financial Relationships
All individuals that participate in an ACR-sponsored activity and are able to change content or influence the content of the activity must disclose to the planning committee and audience all financial or other relationships with ineligible companies including, but not limited to:
- Advisor or review panel member
- Consultant
- Employee
- Officer or Board Member
- Grant/research support
- Speaker/honoraria includes speakers bureau, symposia, and expert witness
- Independent contractor
- Executive role and/or ownership interest
- Royalties and/or patient beneficiary
- Intellectual property/patents
- Stock options or bond holdings in a for-profit corporation or self-directed pension plan
- Private investigator
- Expert witness
- Equity interest
- Other: specify details
None: Has no relevant financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose.
All participants that created and/or were able to influence the content and delivery of this activity reported the following disclosures. All of the relevant financial relationships listed have been mitigated.
Practice Innovation Summit 2026 Financial Relationships Disclosures to be announced.