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