Medical Group Management Association (MGMA) news and information

Dr. Peter Valenzuela, medical director at PeaceHealth Medical Group, Bellingham, Wash., was presented with the MGMA-ACMPE "Physician Executive of the Year" award at the organization's annual conference this week in San Antonio.
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Without hesitation, Dr. Allan Korn, the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association's chief medical officer and senior vice president for clinical affairs, declared that the patient-centered medical home has the potential to transform the U.S. healthcare system.
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A lively town-hall meeting opened the MGMA-ACMPE's annual conference, taking place this week in San Antonio.
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It's a familiar refrain—uncertainty, confusion, pressure, frustration. I often feel like a broken record when I'm describing our members' assessment of their current professional lives and the environment for medical practices. The ongoing Medicare payment uncertainty, steady increases in...
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In June, the MGMA-ACMPE released the results of a questionnaire that ranked members' most pressing practice management challenges. In this edition of "Practice Makes Perfect," we'll tackle No. 18 on that list: leading development of an organization's strategic plan and its implementation.
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The MGMA is urging the CMS to combine its quality bonus incentives for electronic prescribing and remove financial penalties for physicians who fail to meet incentive requirements, and called a proposal to reduce payments for specialists who perform multiple procedures on the same patient on the...
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Though they reported a 2.8% decrease in pay, administrators at larger group practices were far ahead of their small- and medium-size group practice colleagues in compensation, according to the Medical Group Management Association report "Management Compensation Survey: 2012 Report Based on 2011...
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Dr. Susan Turney, president and CEO of the MGMA-ACMPE, expressed concern that public- and private-sector health plans and other electronic transaction senders and receivers may not be ready in time to successfully implement by the deadline for using the ICD-10 family of diagnostic and procedural...
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HHS unclogged a backlog of key information technology regulations late last week, including a rule that sets the ICD-10 implementation date for Oct. 1, 2014—to the consternation of a major physician's group, the MGMA.
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Final regulations for the second phase of the federal program to boost the use of electronic health records may have eased the burden on individual clinicians, but hospitals continue to consider it a challenging path.
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