From the Pathology Management Assembly e-Group 

Quote of Note

"It sounds like your client is suggesting that your group might provide the urology practice with some software to 'enhance' the interface between your practices. Considering that some urology groups are jumping into setting up their own labs and getting into client billing, this proposal may not be too bad. You'll need to make sure that you are not running afoul of anti-kickback rules if you want to go this route, and make sure you are protected contractually in case something happens with the software vendor or relationship. I have worked with a practice to establish several relationships similar to this with some of their historically best clients."

Education
 

• Education calendar
• Webinar: Getting Better Together: Shared Medical Appointments (SMAs)
• Seminar: Mastering Medical Practice Staffing and Revenue Optimization
• Seminar: The Critical Steps to Leverageing Evidence-based Management in Healthcare
• Seminar: Alignment Options in an Era of Accountable Care
• Seminar: EHR Selection and Implementation: Select and Implement the Best System for Your Practice
• Seminar: Mastering Patient Flow: Train Your Office for Success
• Seminar: EHR Optimization: Improving Your EHR System and Positioning Your Practice for the Future
• Seminar: The Practice Administrator's Role in Acquisition and Integration 
  
  Save the date
• MGMA 2012 Annual Conference, Oct. 21-24, San Antonio

Products

• Physician Placement Starting Salary Survey: 2012 Reported Based on 2011 Data
  

Advocacy

• MGMA Healthcare Reform Resource Center  

Resources

• Operating Policies & Procedures Manual for Medical Practices, 3rd edition. Natural disasters, declining reimbursement and more diverse patient populations have made the need for specialized medical practice policies and processes even greater. 
  
• HR Policies & Procedures Manual for Medical Practices, 4th edition. Human resource issues in the medical practice setting have a reputation for being more complex than the mainstream; thus, the need for specialized information has never been greater. 
  
• Electronic Health Records: Transforming Your Medical Practice, 2nd edition. While some electronic health record (EHR) implementations proceed on schedule with the team’s full participation and – seemingly – little effort, others flounder, stall, or struggle, experiencing only limited success or, in extreme cases, no success at all. What accounts for the difference? 
  
• Medical Fees in the US: 2010 Edition. This book includes everything you need to review your fees, set fees for new services, challenge low payments from third party payers and evaluate managed care contracts. 
  
• Data Sanity: A Quantum Leap to Unprecedented Results. Far too much emphasis has been placed on “tools, tools and more tools” (especially statistical techniques), resulting in rampant waste caused by poor everyday organizational use of data. This book offers a new way of thinking via a common organizational language based in process and understanding variation to motivate more productive daily conversations for everyone. 
  
• Integrated Delivery Systems: Ensuring Successful Physician-Hospital Partnerships. As medical groups, hospitals, and health systems position themselves for the new marketplace, they must be proactive in establishing new relationships and affiliations. Because the outcomes of health system integration vary widely, this book will help steer organizations toward a common purpose – in a way that is meaningful to providers, administrators, and health care leaders, and most of all, to patients.

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