William Jessee news and information

Though they're at the low end of the physician pay scale, pediatricians are often found in leading activist or management roles in the healthcare system.
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A friendly reminder to those tweeting from the American Medical Association meeting: Unless you like reading notes about Taylor Swift with your Medicare premium support diatribes, the code #AMA is useless.
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Since it began in 2005, 147 different individuals have appeared on the Modern Healthcare/Modern Physician list of the 50 Most Influential Physician Executives, but only one—Dr. Gary Gottlieb, president and CEO of Partners HealthCare, Boston—has made it on the list all eight years.
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Dr. William Jessee wasn't missing from the Medical Group Management Association's recent annual conference in Las Vegas. But what was absent was an opportunity for him to say something provocative in front of a large audience.
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Dr. William Jessee, who will retire in September as president and CEO of the Medical Group Management Association, will join consulting company Integrated Healthcare Strategies as a senior adviser and senior vice president.
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The American Hospital Association's new effort to represent the interests of physicians seems to be off to a queasy start.
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MGMA President and CEO William Jessee said a new AHA group that seeks to promote collaboration with doctors will "help meet the needs of physicians in AHA member organizations."
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The new CEO of the Medical Group Management Association will be the first woman and the second physician to lead the organization and its credentialing and standards-setting body, the American College of Medical Practice Executives.
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It's probably an unintended consequence—and not a positive one at that—but government programs have helped make dealing with rising operational costs less of a concern for medical practice managers, according to the fourth-annual survey by the Medical Group Management Association on...
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As the country's healthcare industry groups evaluate the 429-page proposed regulation on accountable care organizations that HHS released today, some are emphasizing the need for flexibility in this new model.
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