Deborah Walker Keegan, PhD, FACMPE

Deborah Walker Keegan is a nationally recognized consultant, keynote speaker, and author.  She is president of Medical Practice Dimensions, Inc. and a principal with Woodcock & Walker Consulting. With more than 25 years of experience, she helps health care organizations improve medical practice operations, enhance physician and staff productivity, and align physician compensation systems. She has developed special expertise in ensuring sustainable improvement in academic, hospital-owned, and private medical practices.

She has co-authored four best-selling books: Rightsizing: Appropriate Staffing for Your Medical Practice, The Physician Billing Process: Avoiding Potholes in the Road to Getting Paid"and its second edition, The Physician Billing Process: 12 Potholes to Avoid in the Road to Getting Paid, and Physician Compensation Plans: State-of-the-Art Strategies. She is in high demand as a keynote speaker and has collaborated with Elizabeth Woodcock to offer a series of educational DVDs on hot topics in medical practice management.

Keegan earned her PhD at the Peter F. Drucker Graduate School of Management, her MBA from UCLA, and she is a Fellow of the American College of Medical Practice Executives. In 2008, she received the Edward B. Stevens Article of the Year Award for "Are you ready for the perfect storm?"  published in the January 2008 MGMA Connexion.

Upcoming Speaking Engagements

• "Leadership and the Dysfunctional Board of Directors"
  Oct. 12, 2009, MGMA 009 Annual Conference in Denver

MGMA Books and Products by Deborah Walker Keegan

	The Physician Billing Process: 12 Potholes to Avoid in the Road to Getting Paid This second-edition bestseller is packed full of new, innovative tools, techniques, policies and procedures. Plus, it provides plenty of advanced techniques that allow you to diagnose and treat an ailing revenue cycle to ensure a financially healthy bottom line.
	Physician Compensation Plans: State-of-the-Art Strategies  Find innovative approaches, plans and a step-by-step guide to assess or modify an existing physician compensation plan or develop a new state-of-the-art plan for your practice. This comprehensive resource covers all the bases — presenting a guide to plan analysis, development and implementation.
	Rightsizing: Appropriate Staffing for Your Medical Practice This book presents a systematic approach to rightsizing. The authors outline a five-step process to realign staffing levels and responsibilities to optimize performance

Physician Transition Plans: Compensation for Physicians in Part-time, Slowdown and Similar Status DVD

Staffing the Medical Practice for Optimal Performance DVD

CPR for Your Revenue Cycle DVD