ACMA

What ACMA does

ACMA (American Case Management Association) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit professional association founded in 1999 and headquartered in Little Rock, Arkansas, serving healthcare case management and transitions of care professionals across the United States. The association reached a record membership base of over 30,000 members in 2025 and operates a national footprint of more than 25 state chapters organized into Northeast, South, Mid-West, and West regions. Its remit covers professional credentialing, education, advocacy, and analytics for case managers, physician advisors, social workers, and health plan practitioners operating within health delivery systems.

The association's product portfolio is anchored by the ACM (Accredited Case Manager) certification created in 2005, which offers two credential tracks — ACM-RN for registered nurses and ACM-SW for social workers — using clinical simulation testing methodology. ACM is complemented by the CMAC (Case Management Administrator Certification) and, through a partnership with APLCM, the CMPC (Case Management Professional Certification). Adjacent education products include the Compass cloud-based learning management system (with role-based curricula for case managers, physician advisors, and health plans offering up to 63 CE hours, 37 CME hours, and 39.5 CE hours respectively), the ACTS (Advanced Care Transitions Simulation) team-based training program, and a web-based ACM Study Guide. Analytics and career services round out the portfolio with ACMA Compare (a national benchmarking platform for avoidable delays and readmissions) and the Career Link job board.

ACMA's revenue mechanics rely on individual and organizational membership dues, certification application and recertification fees across three credential programs, continuing education and training product sales, conference registration and sponsorships (National, Leadership, Physician Advisor, and the inaugural 2026 International Conference in London), corporate partnerships, and benchmarking subscriptions. The leadership is headed by CEO L. Greg Cunningham, with domain authority reinforced by advisory boards staffed by senior case management executives from Duke University Health System, Tenet Healthcare, HCA, St. Louis Children's Hospital, Tampa General Hospital, and Blue Cross Blue Shield of Rhode Island.

Name

ACMA

Legal name

American Case Management Association

Website

https://acmaweb.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

1999

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

ACMA (American Case Management Association) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit professional association serving more than 30,000 healthcare case management and physician advisor professionals through the ACM, CMAC, and CMPC certifications, Compass LMS, ACTS simulation, ACMA Compare benchmarking, and a national state chapter network.

Ownership category

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Product category

Healthcare Professional Certification and Education

NAICS

Business Associations (813910), Professional and Management Development Training (61143)

SIC

Services-Membership Organizations (8600), Services-Educational Services (8200)

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Programmatic Accreditors (Discipline/Profession-Specific) (EDADACAC)

Keywords

• Case management certification
• Healthcare education
• Professional membership
• Care transitions training
• Clinical benchmarking

Headquarters

HQ city

Little Rock

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Others

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

ACMA is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit professional association that provides primary guidance, education, and certifications to healthcare case management practitioners to achieve proper patient status and care transitions. It delivers board certifications (ACM, CMAC, CMPC), continuing education through Compass training, simulated case management training (ACTS), clinical benchmarking (ACMA Compare), a member job board, and thought leadership through position papers and an annual national conference.

Product overview

ACMA (American Case Management Association) offers a unified platform of professional certification, education, and analytics products for healthcare case management and transitions of care professionals. The core offerings include the ACM Certification (Accredited Case Manager) - the primary credential for health delivery system case management created in 2005 - along with supplementary training programs including Compass (a cloud-based learning management system with role-based curricula for case managers, physician advisors, and health plans) and ACTS (Advanced Care Transitions Simulation for team-based training). Supporting products include the ACM Study Guide, CMAC and CMPC certifications, ACMA Compare benchmarking analytics, and Career Link job services. The portfolio provides a comprehensive professional development ecosystem from initial certification through ongoing education and career advancement.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• ACMA Compare: National benchmarking and analytics platform for avoidable delays and readmissions.
• ACMA National Conference
• ACTS (Advanced Care Transitions Simulation)
• Compass
• ACM Certification

Quantifiable outcome

• Auto component exports to US grew from $3.56 billion (FY2020-21) to $6.225 billion (FY2024-25)

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

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Has API

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Partnerships

Two partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• Boston Consulting Group (BCG)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 12 February 2026ACMA and BCG released a joint study on Smart Factory adoption in India's auto component sector. The study found Smart Factory adoption is essential for the industry to achieve its export target of USD 100 billion by FY30, with nearly 60% of surveyed companies achieving moderate-to-transformational benefits from digital initiatives.
• Messe FrankfurtcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerMesse Frankfurt is a co-organizer of ACMA Automechanika New Delhi, one of India's major auto component trade fairs, attracting 870 exhibitors from 20 countries and 35,750 visitors.

Scale indicators10 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Emerging players

• Society for Social Work Leadership in Healthcare: Emerging player — a smaller US specialty association for social work leaders in health care; overlaps with ACMA's social worker (ACM-SW) audience and case management leadership programming but with a more limited geographic and product footprint.
• National Board for Case Management: Emerging player — an organization historically connected to case management subspecialty certification in the US, representing an adjacent credentialing pathway that competes for attention within the same case management buyer pool.

Broad incumbents

• American Nurses Association: Broad incumbent — the largest US nursing professional association, offering its own nursing certifications and credentials that overlap with the ACM-RN track and influencing hospital credentialing policy that ACMA's hospital case manager members must comply with.
• American Hospital Association: Broad incumbent — the primary US hospital trade association with institutional memberships, advocacy, and education programs serving the same health delivery system buyers ACMA targets, and which shapes credentialing and policy standards affecting case management demand.
• American College of Healthcare Executives: Broad incumbent — a major US healthcare leadership professional association offering FACHE credentialing, continuing education, and conferences; competes for the same hospital executive budget on leadership conferences and physician advisor development programs targeted by Compass.
• National Association of Social Workers: Broad incumbent — the primary US social work professional association offering social work credentials that intersect with ACM-SW; many case managers are social workers and NASW sets adjacent continuing-education standards.
• American Health Information Management Association: Broad incumbent — large US health information professional association with its own certification programs (RHIA, CCS) and analytics offerings, providing an analogous membership-plus-certification model in adjacent health delivery functions.
• Healthcare Financial Management Association: Broad incumbent — comparable membership association model for hospital finance and revenue cycle professionals, with national conferences, certifications (CRCR), and analytics products targeting the same hospital executive buyers that ACMA Compare and Compass pursue.

Direct peers

• Commission for Case Manager Certification: Direct peer — CCMC develops and administers the Certified Case Manager (CCM) credential, the primary competing case management certification to ACMA's ACM, and is referenced in the same job postings and employer credentialing requirements.
• Case Management Society of America: Direct peer — CMSA is the other major US-based professional association serving case management and transitions of care professionals, with overlapping membership, conferences, and educational offerings competing with ACMA for the same buyer pool.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat6 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

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• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/american-case-management-association
• Instagraminstagram.com/americancasemanagement

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Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

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