The American Medical Group Association(r) is pleased to announce that SecureCARE(tm) Technologies, Inc. has become an Executive Corporate Partner of the association.
Due to popular demand, the American Medical Group Association is now offering compensation and productivity data from AMGA's 2004 AMGA Medical Group Compensation & Financial Survey for individual specialties and administrative positions.
According to findings in the 2004 Medical Group Compensation & Financial Survey, most specialties saw modest increases in compensation in 2003. Median compensation and gross productivity for physicians has generally increased over the past four years.
Applications are now being accepted for the American Medical Group Association's most prestigious quality award, AMGA's Acclaim Award. This year, the Acclaim Award will honor organizations that have made global organizational changes to address the findings of the Institute of Medicine.
The American Medical Group Association is convening medical group leaders from around the country to examine progress made at integrated delivery systems in efforts to achieve goals outlined in the Institute of Medicine's groundbreaking Crossing the Quality Chasm: A New Health System for the 21st Century.
Applications are now being accepted for the 2004 AMGA Acclaim Award, honoring medical groups that are embracing the IOM Aims for the 21st Century Healthcare System.
The AMGA presented its annual Distinguished Partner Award to Pfizer Inc. at its 2004 Annual Conference. The award is presented annually to a non-medical group organization for providing excellent service and value to medical groups.
The AMGA and Pfizer Inc. announce the grant recipients of the 2004 Models of Excellence Collaborative, an innovative yearly program designed to bring together medical groups for a 12-month work group and support them in their efforts to improve the quality of patient care.
The AMGA presented the annual Medical Group Preeminence Award to three of its medical group members at its 2004 Annual Conference: Albert Lea Medical Center"“Mayo Health System, Holzer Clinic, and St. John's Clinic.
The AMGA and Pfizer Inc. launch the Models of Excellence Collaborative -- a yearly program designed to provide a learning environment in which organizations with programs for improving patient care will network, share insights, and learn from each other over the course of 12 months.
Siemens Medical Solutions and Anceta LLC today announced that they have initiated a strategic partnership in which Siemens will supply information technology infrastructure and support services for the commercial development of the largest repository of longitudinal patient information in the United States.
The American Medical Group Association applauded Congressional approval of historic legislation that provides Medicare beneficiaries with prescription drug coverage and protects beneficiaries' access to physician care.
AMGA and its health informatics subsidiary, Anceta LLC, announced that their collaborative health care data warehouse had reached a major milestone with the commitment of 10 medical groups to contribute comprehensive, patient-level data to the Anceta data warehouse.
The American Medical Group Association announced today its strong support for the Medicare prescription drug legislation that was agreed to by the Medicare conferees. The legislation is expected to go to the House and Senate floors later this week.
The American Medical Group Association announced today that Chester A. Speed, J.D., LL.M., has joined AMGA as its new Vice President of Public Policy and Political Affairs. Mr. Speed will lead AMGA's government affairs activities with Congress, the White House, and executive agencies on behalf of its members.
Carleton T. Rider, Senior Administrator, Mayo Foundation, was elected Chair of the Board of Directors of the American Medical Group Association by his fellow board members. Mr. Rider took office October 1, and will continue in the position until December 31, 2004.
Kenneth P. Brin, M.D., Ph.D., Director of Cardiology, The Health Hospital at Geisinger Wyoming Valley Medical Center, Geisinger Health System, was elected Chair-Elect of the Board of Directors of the American Medical Group Association by his fellow board members.
The American Medical Group Association announced the release of its 2003 Medical Group Financial Operations Survey, which contains revenue and cost data from its member groups for 2002. This report confirmed that many physician groups are experiencing losses in the midst of an increasingly competitive and regulatory environment.
According to a survey, several specialties saw declines in compensation in 2002. Although median compensation and gross productivity for physicians has generally increased over the past four years, only certain high demand specialties saw significant increases in median compensation during 2002.
The American Medical Group Association announced today that Laird Burnett will provide strategic counsel, policy analysis, and direct lobbying services for the association.
The American Medical Group Association announced today that Daniel Boston will provide policy advisory and direct lobbying services for the association.
The health care industry in recent years has placed a top priority on finding cost-effective ways to improve the quality of patient care. The American Medical Group Association and Pfizer Inc began collaborating in 1999 to address this issue through the Models of Excellence in High-Risk Patient Management Award.
The American Medical Group Association presented the annual Distinguished Partner Award to RSM McGladrey at AMGA's National Conference on Physician Directed Health Care, being held February 27-March 1, 2003 in Hollywood.
The American Medical Group Association presented the annual Medical Group Preeminence Award today to three of its medical group members at AMGA's National Conference on Physician Directed Health Care.
The American Medical Group Association presented the annual AMGA Acclaim Award to Henry Ford Medical Group at AMGA's National Conference on Physician Directed Health Care.
The American Medical Group Association (r) reported another year of substantial membership growth and expanded member services in 2002, building on the significant successes of 2001 and 2000.
The American Medical Group Association announced the release of its 2002 Medical Group Financial Operations Survey, which contains revenue and cost data from its member and nonmember groups for 2001.
Median compensation and gross productivity for physicians has generally increased over the past four years according to findings in the American Medical Group Association's 2002 Medical Group Compensation & Productivity Survey.
The California Medical Group Association (CMGA) today announced its membership growth results for the first quarter of 2002. For the quarter, CMGA gained 28 new medical group members, representing more than 17,000 physicians delivering health care to more than 10 million patients. The 28 new member groups nearly surpass the membership goal for the organization's first year and demonstrate the level of interest in having a single voice for California medical groups.
The American Medical Group Association announced its new board members to begin their tenure in July 2002. The Board of Directors represents the leadership of some of AMGA's most prominent member medical groups.
The American Medical Group Association announced that Debra Cohn has joined AMGA as its new Vice President of Public Policy and Government Affairs. Ms. Cohn will lead AMGA's government affairs activities with Congress, the White House, and executive agencies on behalf of its members.
The American Medical Group Association, the National Committee for Quality Assurance, and Pharmacia announced members of the Advisory Board to the Safety Collaborative for the Outpatient Environment initiative, a collaborative partnership with a mission to encourage programs targeting patient safety improvements in the ambulatory setting.
In response to last year's events involving weapons of mass destruction, the American Medical Group Association has provided its member groups with a compendium entitled "Bioterrorism Response Protocols for Medical Groups." The compendium offers medical groups with protocols and information to aid them in their response to acts of bioterrorism. It has been sent to members of the association free of charge.
The American Medical Group Association announced that it has formally renamed the organization dedicated to the development of a national data warehouse of health care information to Anceta.
The American Medical Group Association announced that Kevin Brown has been appointed Chief Executive Officer of Anceta. Brown will lead Anceta's efforts to develop a national data warehouse that will allow medical groups to access key practice management, clinical, health outcome, economic, and quality benchmarks.
The American Medical Group Association commended HHS Secretary Tommy G. Thompson on proposed changes to HHS' health privacy regulations released on March 21, specifically the Standards for Privacy of Individually Identifiable Health Information, as required by HIPAA.
HHS Secretary Tommy G. Thompson commended the American Medical Group Association for their work in preparing medical groups for bioterrorism readiness, specifically for working with government bodies to make sure the American health system is ready to respond to a bioterrorism event and for compiling bioterrorism response protocols from member groups as models to be adapted for medical group environments.
The American Medical Group Association presented the annual Medical Group Preeminence Award to The Southeast Permanente Medical Group at AMGA's National Conference on Physician Directed Health Care, being held February 21-23, 2002 in San Diego. The award honors exceptional leadership in AMGA member medical groups.
Answering a dire need for medical groups, IPAs, and integrated delivery systems to have one voice speaking on their behalf in the state of California, the American Medical Group Association(r) announced the formation of the California Medical Group Association.
Former leaders of the National IPA Coalition have officially endorsed the American Medical Group Association(r) as the best resource for IPAs and integrated delivery systems throughout the country. AMGA announced that it is collaborating with former board members of NIPAC to transition membership, and AMGA has purchased certain limited assets of the now defunct organization, which ceased operations in October 2001.
Today's quality-driven healthcare environment presents medical professionals with new challenges to improve clinical outcomes for high-risk patients while controlling costs. To help organizations create care management programs, Pfizer and the American Medical Group Association have collaborated on publishing the second volume of Innovations in Caring for High-Risk Patients, a compendium of best practices, which is now available.
The American Medical Group Association has partnered with the National Committee for Quality Assurance and Pharmacia to develop a program to encourage medical groups to work together to deliver safer, more error-free health care in the office setting by addressing systemic issues such as infection control, medication errors, follow-up of abnormal tests, over- or under-diagnosis, timely and appropriate access to providers, etc.
The American Medical Group Association(r) (AMGA) is pleased to announce the establishment of a partnership with Aspen Publishers, Inc. to provide a selection of their titles to AMGA members at a discounted price.
The American Medical Group Association released its 2001 Medical Group Financial Operations Survey. Among the more interesting findings are that financial performance varied significantly by region and that percent of capitated revenue appears to have an influence on financial performance.
Median compensation and gross productivity for physicians has generally increased over the past four years according to findings in the American Medical Group Association's 2001 Medical Group Compensation & Productivity Survey.
The American Medical Group Association announced its new board members to begin their tenure in July 2001. The Board of Directors represents the leadership of some of AMGA's most prominent member medical groups.
The American Medical Group Association continues to sustain the exceptional growth rate in membership it experienced in 2000 as evidenced by its just released first quarter results.
The American Medical Group Association (AMGA) has added "AMGA Shop" and a new online Membership Directory to its Web site at www.amga.org, to make it easier to access valuable information and resources.
The American Medical Group Association commends the Institute of Medicine and its Committee on Quality of Health Care in America for its most recent report, "Crossing the Quality Chasm: A New Health Care System for the 21st Century,"regarding the state of American health care.
AMGA has formed a strategic partnership with Aventis Pharmaceuticals to develop a national data warehouse that will allow medical groups to access key practice management, clinical, health outcome, economic, and quality benchmarks.
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