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SPOTLIGHT: Watch web ratings to avoid managed care de-selection, MGMA speakers say
You may feel your patients are largely satisfied with your practice or hospital, and you may even be right. The thing is, even if a small percentage of them (even 5 percent) are out there writing up... Read more...
MGMA 2009: Knowing the right practice metrics to follow is critical, speaker says
Managing a practice is a hard job under the best of circumstances. But if you don't pay attention to the right core metrics, your practice is missing countless opportunities to boost patient and... Read more...
MGMA 2009: New wiki offers community support for medical coders
Increasingly, online communities are emerging which give doctors a place to hang out among their own, including www.sermo.com, www.ozmosis.com, www.health.md, www.doctorshangout.com and more. Now, a... Read more...
MGMA 2009: Practices learning to pick out, attract most profitable patients
If yesterday's educational session "Not All Patients Are Created Equal" was any indication, practice managers and physician executives aren't quite ready to think like product marketers. But for... Read more...
MGMA 2009: Medicare Part B ranks above private payers in satisfaction
Yesterday at the MGMA 2009 conference, the group unveiled statistics suggesting that--counter to what you might believe--Medicare seems to be doing a relatively good job of satisfying doctors. In... Read more...
MGMA 2009: Practice leaders discuss "managing in hard times"
While Sunday is still the "slow day" at conferences like MGMA 2009, the knowledge-sharing sessions are already rolling along. One example of what late attendees are missing was this street-level view... Read more...
MGMA 2009: Social media plays larger role at '09 conference
Social media has gradually become more and more important to the healthcare world, spawning conferences of its own such as last week's Health 2.0 get-together in San Francisco. Though technologies... Read more...
Welcome to FierceHealthcare's live coverage of MGMA's 2009 Annual Conference
Practice managers and physicians are coming together at MGMA’s annual conference during a tense time. Consider that U.S. practices are turning out less revenue, practice overhead is climbing and... Read more...
MGMA 2009: Who's afraid of ICD-10 and HIPAA changes?
Oh, for heaven's sake, regulators, did you have to pile on new HIPAA privacy and security rules--and the switch to ICD-10--when we're already coping with health reform and a collapsible economy? Yes,... Read more...
MGMA 2009: Bringing in the money, recession or not
No doubt, it's a darned shame that the economy has tanked for a couple of years--and that patient revenue has been a bit slow--but that won't help you make payroll. On the other hand, there's quite a... Read more...
