New AMGA data show medical groups have trimmed clinic staff per provider even as wRVUs and visits keep rising, and physicians are absorbing the difference.
|Articles|May 12, 2021
Business continuity and planning for disaster
Author(s)Keith A. Reynolds, Logan Lutton
Six things practice leaders should review in their organization.
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The COVID-19 pandemic has illuminated weaknesses of many practices and the healthcare system at large.
As part of the Medical Group Management Association’s Medical Practice Excellence Pathways Conference, Kem Tolliver, president and CEO of Medical Revenue Cycle Specialists, laid out some areas leaders can review in their own practice to ensure they can weather disasters like the pandemic.
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