Physicians Practice, America’s Leading Practice Management Journal, Announces the 5th Edition of Its Popular Resource, THE PHYSICIANS PRACTICE BUYERS GUIDE 2009

Baltimore, Maryland — October 02, 2008 — Physicians Practice is pleased to announce the publication of the 5th edition of The Physicians Practice Buyers Guide 2009, scheduled for release in December 2008. A popular resource for physicians and their office staff, this vendor directory is published in three formats and aims to provide medical practices with one source they can turn to for all their purchasing needs. Operational inefficiencies account for $126 to$315 billion in wasted healthcare dollars nationally (2008 PricewaterhouseCoopers), and physician practices are increasingly overwhelmed with administrative tasks. The Buyers Guide provides quick access to the products and services medical offices need, allowing physicians and their staff to spend more time on patient care.

Published every year since 2004, The Physicians Practice Buyers Guide continues to be a popular and trusted tool for medical practices, with 84% of surveyed recipients indicating they are more likely to use a buyers guide published by Physicians Practice, and 92% citing they would like to continue receiving The Physicians Practice Buyers Guide (source: 2008 Physicians Practice Survey).

"After four years in the market, the research shows that physicians and their staff appreciate The Buyers Guide and trust it as a source they can rely on," says Ken Karpay, publisher & vice president of Physicians Practice. “It's an integrated resource that compiles a variety of sources critical for managing a busy practice in a handy, concise, and easy-to-use format," Karpay adds. "The publication of this 5th edition reflects our group’s ongoing commitment to rapidly disseminate the most current, practical, and authoritative information on practice management.”

The Physicians Practice Buyers Guide is currently available online at www.PhysiciansPractice.com. Print and digital versions of the 5th edition will be published in December 2008.

For more information on The Physicians Practice Buyers Guide, or to showcase your products in the 5th edition, contact Eric Temple-Morris, associate publisher, Physicians Practice (eric.temple-morris@cmpmedica.com).

About Physicians Practice
Physicians Practice provides award-winning practice-management advice to nearly 260,000 physicians through partnerships with 60 medical centers throughout the United States. For more than 18 years, doctors have trusted Physicians Practice for expertise on billing, coding, collections, technology, work flow, staffing, compensation, and much more. Physicians Practice is published by CMP Healthcare Media, LLC, a division of United Business Media.

About CMPMedica
CMPMedica, a division of United Business Media plc, provides healthcare information and education to primary-care physicians, specialists, pharmacists, and patients around the world. Providing journals, magazines, directories, drug databases, other electronic databases, Web sites, face-to-face meetings, and other valuable resources, CMPMedica also delivers comprehensive communication solutions for the pharmaceutical and related industries. Employing more than 1,400 people with offices in 29 countries, CMPMedica is headquartered in London. In the U.S., CMPMedica provides comprehensive continuing medical education for medical professionals across a wide range of specialties; SearchMedica.com, a unique series of specialty-oriented professional medical search engines built by doctors for doctors that index medicine’s most credible sources to provide fast and clinically relevant results; and three publishing divisions — the Cliggott Group, the Newsmagazines Group, and The ONCOLOGY Group, which collectively publish fifteen of the best read U.S. clinical publications. For more information, visit www.CMPMedica.com.

Buyers Guide contact:

Eric Temple-Morris
Associate Publisher
503-203-1060
eric.temple-morris@cmpmedica.com

Media contact:

Amy Tubman
Senior Marketing Manager
410-818-2705
amy.tubman@cmpmedica.com