Establishing quality incentives and payments

Nearly 1 in 4 licensed doctors is 65 or older. Few hospitals screen them, and practices often have no checkpoint at all.

MGMA acting CEO Akash Madiah on what members need, what the association must fix and how administrators can stop revenue leaks now.

Former Integrated Medical Services CEO Monique Delgado explained how practice leaders can build performance-based physician pay with physicians at the table and why the work starts with the practice's own finances.

Four Oct. 29 sessions cover supplemental pay, payer contracts, Kentucky Medicaid and workload pressure for physicians and administrators.

From payer contract homework to a 15-minute morning huddle, these are the moves practice administrators can make after four days of sessions and interviews at MGMA's centennial meeting.

A family physician and practice owner shares the structure, roles and timing that make her team's 15-minute morning huddle work, and how to adapt it to a practice of any size.

Neil Baum, MD, borrows a technique from acting teacher Uta Hagen: nine questions to ask yourself before you open the exam room door.

Medicaid work requirements, new remote monitoring rules and an electronic prior authorization deadline all land Jan. 1, and that's only part of what MGMA told practice leaders to watch.