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Physician-owned practices crack down on costs

American Medical News

"Analysts with MGMA-ACMPE, an organization of medical practice managers, collected data on physician salaries, support staff costs and other expenses from 2,100 multispeciality groups with 46,800 doctors. Physician-owned practices spent $528,182 per doctor in 2011."

Centura Health unveils "health neighborhood" plans at Aurora facility

The Denver Post
"This is actually part of a national change that is occuring in how health care is being delivered. Many organizations are realizing that there are benefits to being more patient-centered, with an eye toward patients being more involved in their own health care," said David Gans, senior fellow of industry affairs for MGMA-ACMPE, a medical group membership association.

Peak Performance 

Repertoire
MGMA-ACMPE, the Englewood, Colo.-based association for professional administrators and leaders of medical group practices, came up with its list of better-performing practices based on its 2012 Cost Survey and a supplemental questionnaire that assessed practices and procedures.

4 Phases of Successful Hospital-Physician Integration

Becker's Hospital Review
"The American Hospital Association's Physician Leadership Forum and the MGMA-ACMPE recently hosted a webinar, titled "Successful Physician-Hospital Integration — A Case Study," presented by Nick Fabrizio, PhD, FACMPE, FACHE, principle consultant of MGMA Health Care Consulting Group."

MGMA Calls Out its Disappointment in the Federal Sequester

Healthcare Informatics
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With the federal budget sequester looming on the horizon on Friday, March 1, healthcare provider association executives began to speak out on the impact on healthcare of the sequester. In a statement from the Englewood, Colo.-based Medical Group Management Association (MGMA), Susan L. Turney, M.D., the association’s president and CEO, said, “MGMA is disappointed in Congress’s failure to prevent across-the-board sequestration cuts, which will impact payments to physicians and compound the already dire situation for medical group practices caused by the sustainable growth rate (SGR) formula."