MGMA Podcasts

Podcast: Communication tips to increase your practice's bottom line 
MGMA Take 10

• Healthcare collections expert Jeff Staads, president of the Business Resource Center, shares how changing one's attitude can boost patient collections.

Podcast: Maximizing patient collections before, during & after the visit 
MGMA Take 10

• Medical practice management expert Elizabeth Woodcock, MBA, FACMPE, CPC, shares advice for enhancing your practice's patient collections, one patient at a time.

Podcast: Declare a war on waste in your medical practice 
MGMA Take 10

• Davis Balestracci, author of the bestselling book, Data Sanity: A Quantum Leap to Unprecedented Results, talks about how to drive quality in your practice through simplifying the data you use.

Get lean with Six Sigma and continuous process improvement
MGMA Take 10

• Frank Cohen, Six Sigma Master Black Belt, Lean instructor and author, shares how continuous process improvement can transform your organization into a better performing practice.

Financial tips that can improve your practice's profitability 
MGMA Take 10

• Hear Lee Ann Webster, practice administrator for Pathology Associates of Alabama, and Fred Simmons, CEO of Clearwater Cardiovascular and Interventional Consultants, share insider financial tips for your practice from their upcoming seminar, "Improving Practice Profitability through Cost Management and Financial Analysis."

Give your medical practice a financial check-up 
MGMA Take 10

• Healthcare consultant Reed Tinsley, CPA, shares expert advice on the do's and don'ts of monitoring your practice's finances from his seminar, "Evaluating the Financial Health of Your Practice." 

How 4 MGMA members prepare their organizations for H1N1 
MGMA Take 10

• MGMA members tell – in their own words – how they're preparing their medical practices and health systems for the outbreak.

Integrated delivery system trends and strategies for success 
MGMA Take 10

• MGMA principal healthcare consultant Nick Fabrizio, PhD, FACMPE, FACHE, shares his IDS expertise on current trends and strategies you can use during a merger.

A day in the life of an interim administrator
MGMA Take 10

• Ever considered a career in interim management? Frank Dingler, FACMPE, physician practice consultant and interim administrator, shares what it's like.

Effect of patient volume on physician compensation
MGMA Take 10

• Dave Gans, MSHA, FACMPE, MGMA VP of Innovation and Research, explains why it's so important to keep your medical practice revenue steady in this economic downturn.

Focus on quality, not quantity, with pay for performance
MGMA Take 10

• Cindy Dunn, RN, FACMPE, senior consultant with the MGMA Health Care Consulting Group, shares self-auditing secrets to measure your practice's quality of care.

5 challenges facing medical practices today
MGMA Take 10

• Jim Margolis, MPA, FACMPE, senior project manager for MGMA Innovation and Research, talks about challenges that climbed the rankings this year in MGMA's "Medical practice today: What members have to say" research.

SMART goal setting and mentoring for medical groups 
MGMA Take 10

• Part 1: Leadership expert Susan Murphy, MBA, PhD, shares tips from her new Maximizing Performance Management Series a How-To Guide for Medical Practices.

5 characteristics of top-earning physicians
MGMA Take 10

• Dave Gans, MGMA VP of Innovation and Research, reveals what physicians with the highest compensations have in common.

Handling conflict and generational differences in medical groups
MGMA Take 10

• Part 2: Leadership expert Susan Murphy, MBA, PhD, shares tips from her new Maximizing Performance Management Series a How-To Guide for Medical Practices.

3 common coding errors and how to avoid them
MGMA Take 10

• Coding specialist Margie Vaught's top 3 ways to boost your coding operations, and learn how to avoid the most common coding errors.

Keys to successful revenue cycle management
MGMA Take 10

• Pam Waymack, health care consultant and managing director of Pheonix Services Consulting in Evanston, Ill., shares three top tips for optimizing eligibility in the revenue cycle – and how you can train employees for efficiency.

How the stimulus act changes your group's HIPAA requirements
MGMA 2009 Annual Conference

• Because of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), privacy and security requirements under HIPAA are changing for medical group practices. Gerry Hinkley, HIPAA expert and partner with Davis, Wright and Tremaine, in San Francisco, Calif., explains.

Healthcare reform update
MGMA 2009 Annual Conference

• Hear MGMA's key principles for healthcare reform and how the Association has been involved in the process.

How consumer-directed healthcare affects medical practices 
MGMA 2009 Annual Conference

• Steven Lazarus, president of the Boundary Information Group, Inc. and Stuart Hanson, vice president, healthcare & wholesale lockbox, Fifth Third Bank, discuss highlights of their concurrent session "Impact of Consumer-Directed Health Care on Providers."

Overview of the changes to the proposed 2010 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule 
MGMA 2009 Annual Conference

Surprising facts about the world's healthcare systems
MGMA 2009 Annual Conference preview

• T.R. Reid, NPR correspondent and author of the new book The Healing of America: A Global Quest for Better, Cheaper, and Fairer Health Care, shares observations that will change how you think about healthcare reform.

How to be a more effective healthcare leader
MGMA 2009 Annual Conference preview

• Frances Johnston, PhD, co-founder of the Teleos Leadership Institute, explains how emotional intelligence – your awareness of and how you respond to your own moods at work – can make you be a better leader.

Increase patient satisfaction with data-driven strategies
MGMA 2009 Annual Conference preview

• Author and speaker Stephen Beeson, MD, a board-certified family medicine physician with Sharp Rees-Stealy Medical Group, San Diego, Calif., shares how physicians can improve their patient satisfaction with evidence-based methods.

Conquering the generational divide in health care
MGMA 2009 Annual Conference preview

• Cam Marston, a multi-generational relations and workplace communications expert, addresses challenges and opportunities for generational cooperation in health care.

Tips for working with vendors
MGMA 2008 Annual Conference

• MGMA member Shunn Phillips and independent health care consultant John Emerson share how you can go beyond the traditional buyer-seller agreement with your vendors.

How physician training can help you win over patients
MGMA 2008 Annual Conference

• Meryl Luallin, physician coaching expert and partner with Sullivan Luallin, discusses the process and benefits of shadow coaching.

2008 health care advocacy accomplishments
MGMA 2008 Annual Conference

• MGMA Government Affairs' Anders Gilberg discusses advocacy accomplishments including Medicare Part B cuts, the Medicare Advantage 'deeming' provision and incident-to billing rules.

Practical advice for boosting accounts receivable
MGMA 2008 Annual Conference

• MGMA member Lynne Tromble shares how she helped CorVasc MDs in Indianapolis (named one of MGMA's 2008 successful groups in accounts receivable) reduce its costs and number of FTE staff in five years.

Why you should consider a transparent culture 
MGMA 2008 Annual Conference

• General session speaker Quint Studer, CEO, Studer Group, Gulf Breeze, Fla., discusses how being straightfoward and transparent can help a medical group thrive.

XM Radio ReachMD – American Medical News from the Week of 8/31/09
William F. Jessee, MD, FACMPE, MGMA president and CEO

• Fast forward to about 10 minutes, 40 seconds to hear Dr. Jessee speak about MGMA's 2009 Medical Practice Today research.

XM Radio ReachMD – Developing trends in medical practice revenue and operating expenses
William F. Jessee, MD, FACMPE, MGMA president and CEO

• Dr. Jessee speaks to trends in the health care industry including practice-operating costs, shortages of workers and hospital-owned practices. (Dec. 8, 2008)

XM Radio ReachMD – Patients and doctors benefit when the physician and administrator become a team
William F. Jessee, MD, FACMPE, MGMA president and CEO

• Dr. Jessee tells how a team approach can enhance practice revenue and improve patient care. (Oct. 13, 2008)

Imaging Economics "Regulatory Watch"
Robert Bennett, MGMA government affairs

• Bennett discusses MGMA's new research on physician practice experiences with Medicare's Physician Quality Reporting Initiative. (Sept. 15, 2008)

XM Radio ReachMD – Physician incomes outpaced by inflation
William F. Jessee, MD, FACMPE, MGMA president and CEO

• Dr. Jessee speaks about trends in physician practice incomes, documented in the MGMA Physician Compensation and Production Survey: 2008 Report Based on 2007 Data. (Sept. 8, 2008)

XM Radio ReachMD – How to deal with the crushing administrative burdens of your practice
William F. Jessee, MD, FACMPE, MGMA president and CEO

• Dr. Jessee discusses the burden of administrative complexity in group practice. (Aug. 18, 2008)

Medical practice today: What members have to say
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• Mary Jo Heins, FACMPE, administrator, Clear Creek Medical Group, Denver, reveals how she recruits doctors in a time of physician shortage.
  
  
• Antonia E. Metherall, senior health care consultant, PivotHealth Consulting, Brentwood, Tenn., compares running a private practice vs. an IDS practice.
  
  
• J. Larry Shackelford, CPA, FACMPE, CEO, Medical Associates of Northwest Arkansas, Fayetteville, explains how his practice overcame challenges developing a patient-centered Web site.
  
  
• Forrest "Dean" Danner Jr., FACMPE, VP and COO of ASPIRUS Clinic Inc., Wausau, Wis., discusses how to maintain physician compensation amid economic pressures.
  
  
• Thomas Ludwig, RN, FACMPE, COO of Access Community Health Centers, Madison, Wis., shares his thoughts on why MGMA members find choosing and implementing an EHR so difficult.
  
  
• Alan D. Winkler, FACMPE, VP of Clinic Operations, St. Vincent Health System, Little Rock, Ark., cites physician recruitment as a trial for his practice and discusses the factors influencing the marketplace.

3 practice administrators share strategies for achieving MGMA "better performer" status

• Mona Engle, RN, practice administrator, May Grant Associates, Lancaster, Pa., discusses how her practice added ancillary services.
  
  
• Victoria Waltemath, office manager, ABCD Pediatrics, San Antonio, talks about adding an EHR as a critical factor for success.
  
  
• Don Lee, MBA, CPA, CMPE, CEO of Healthstar Physicians PC, Morristown, Tenn., explains patient-centered activities and their positive effect on his practice.