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MGMA 2008: Health system execs urge new financial model for medical groups

October 23, 2008 — 11:31am ET | By Anne Zieger
While pulling medical groups into your integrated delivery may make sense, you may end up poisoning your relationship from the outset if you try to force the groups into your existing financial... Read more...

MGMA 2008: MGMA backs standardized patient insurance ID

October 21, 2008 — 3:28am ET | By Anne Zieger
Right now, virtually every medical practice goes through the time-honored procedure of copying a patient's plastic insurance ID card, collecting their co-payment and submitting a claim for... Read more...

MGMA plans 50-state payer rating survey

October 20, 2008 — 5:24pm ET | By Anne Zieger
The Medical Group Management Association has set plans to conduct a 50-state survey of health professionals asking them to rate various aspects of their relationship with payers. The survey, which... Read more...

The EMR information quest

October 16, 2008 — 10:57am ET | By Anne Zieger
True, the MGMA show isn't primarily focused on health IT, but IT problems are are going to be a hot topic nonetheless. After all, if nothing else, everyone from state governments to health plans to... Read more...

Coming to terms with consumer-driven health plans

October 16, 2008 — 9:43am ET | By Anne Zieger
While consumer-driven health plans are barreling down on providers like a freight train, many physicians have tried to tune them out. In fact, according to one recent survey,... Read more...

Big bad Medicare audits, or, being put on the RAC

October 16, 2008 — 12:15am ET | By Anne Zieger
By this point, pretty much everyone in the industry is aware that Medicare is stepping up the Recovery Audit Contractor program, under which contractors visit with providers and do a deep, hard audit... Read more...

Embracing the medical home

October 16, 2008 — 12:00am ET | By Anne Zieger
Increasingly, research is mounting that at least some patients do well with a "medical home"; a primary care physician who guides all of a patient's care. While some observers describe medical homes... Read more...

Big demand for pay-for-performance knowledge

October 15, 2008 — 11:46pm ET | By Anne Zieger
A few years ago, pay-for-performance was mostly a subject of academic papers--and a few pioneering experiments on the West Coast. But things have changed a lot since then. At this year's MGMA, not... Read more...