Business Operations Tools

Lessons for Financial Success
Take a crash course in practice management 101 with free online tools for physicians and administrators to improve quality of care while becoming more financially efficient.

Checklist for new practice start-up
For physicians starting a new practice

Strategic Planning Self-assessment Questionnaire

MGMA Member-Only Tools  (Join MGMA)

• Selecting a Practice Management System Toolkit
  
• Patient Touch Points for Clean Claims Toolkit
  Download this toolkit for guidance on correctly completing the top section of the CMS-1500, the basic form for filing claims to Medicare and Medicaid from physicians and suppliers.
  
• Cost Comparison of Adding a New Physician and moreIn the MGMA Support Center 
  
• Practice Dissolution Checklist 
  Includes tasks and a timeline for closing a medical practice
  
• Critical Care Management (CCM) Checklist 
  Find out if your practice is ready for a CCM by examining the issues involved in start-up and operation.
  
• Academic Practice Self Assessment Tool
  Evaluate and identify opportunities for improvement within your academic practice.
  
• Practice Merger Due Diligence Tool 
  Track the documents, contracts and major issues to ask your potential merger partner. Then, keep track of who is responsible for providing what information and when.
  
• Medicare Provider Enrollment Toolkit
  
• How to use utilization data from the National Center for Health Statistics
  
• Ambulatory Surgery Center Data Gateway Tool
  The Data Gateway is the first step in benchmarking your ASC using data from the MGMA 2009 ASC Financial Performance Survey.
  

All practice management tools