Call for Faculty

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Practice Management!

Physician Integration!

Medical Staff Development!

Managed Care Delivery!

Over 40,000 healthcare professionals have attended symposiums, conferences, seminars and workshops held by the faculty and staff of The American Academy of Medical Management (AAMM) on business and administration issues affecting the medical practice and medical staff at healthcare systems, managed care companies, networks and clinics. These registrants and members have high expectations for our multiple educational programs held annually. Attendees are both physicians and non-physicians. Program sites are normally within major cities or resorts. We are currently accepting applications for guest faculty to speak at these prestigious and leading edge educational programs.

Faculty submissions are being encouraged for a broad array of topics, including, but not limited to:

• Practice Management • Physician Employment

• Physician Contracts and Compensation • MSO Management

• Managed Care Contracting

• Information Systems • Practice Operations

• Financial Feasibility and Tracking

Multiple topics may also be considered by the selection committee, so please submit within your area of expertise.

If you would like to speak at one of these programs, or have an idea for a new program, please complete this 2000 Call For Faculty formIf you would like to speak at one of these programs, or have an idea for a new program, please complete this 2000 Call For Faculty form. We are currently planning new programs, and applications will be immediately considered. We judge by topic, depth of information, faculty credentials and experience.

The American College is a member driven association, dedicated to a wide range of current and emerging issues for the development and management of the medical staff at hospitals, integrated systems, networks, clinics, MSOs, PPMCs, HMOs, IPAs, and managed care companies.

Primary audience participants are senior level executives, both physician and non-physician. Sessions are typically for advanced level only for CEOs, COOs, CFOs, VPs of Medical Staff Affairs, Integration Experts, Practice Management Senior Personnel, Physician Relations Personnel, Medical Staffing Professionals, Planning, Marketing and Business Development Experts.

  • All sessions are fully accredited for the Executive Fellowship in Practice Management (EFPM) and Certified Medical Practice Manager (CMPM). Program credit is routinely acceptable to numerous other accrediting bodies as well, including CPE credit, and often CME credit.

Early submissions are encouraged. Each faculty member is responsible for travel and presentation expenses, including handouts. Early applicants will be given special consideration.

Topic Examples:

Note: We are interested in expanded, in-depth topics for executives. The topics below are only examples.

  • The Physician Based Information System: Imperative For Today Modern Practice
  • Financially Evaluating The Practice: Details To Make Competent Management Decisions
  • Carefully Transitioning A Privately Owned Practice To A System Owned Practice
  • Organize Your Own Hospital Based Group Practice
  • Medicare Makeover or More of the Same
  • Finding the Right Information System for a Successful PSO

 

 

 

 

 
  • Practice Overhead Expense Reduction Through Right-Sizing And Reorganization
  • Competitive Strategies: Reaction To Proprietary MSOs
  • New Practice Start-Up: How To Lay The Foundation For A Successful Medical Practice Or Fine-Tune An Existing One...A Checklist To Take Home
  • Creating Your Own Physician Staffing Plan
  • Building and Running Your PSO: Structure, Finance, Management and Marketing
  • Strategic Growth Of The Practice: Business Development In The Age Of Emerging Managed Care
  • Imperative Financial Guidelines To Properly Manage The New Or Established Practice
  • Boosting Practice Profitability Through Fee Enhancement Studies And Cost Procedural Analyses
  • Preparing The Practice For Increasing Managed Care
  • Life After the Contract is Signed: Aligning Expectations, Performance Standards and Commitment of the New Physician Group
  • Setting Up a PSO: Qualifications, Selection Criteria, Startup Requirements, Including Legal and Regulatory
  • Physician Compensation, Benefits And Special Incentive Plans Designed For High Productivity In Emerging Managed Care Markets
  • Legal Issues Of Major Concern For Integration, Mergers And Practice Acquisitions In The NEW Managed Care Environment
  • Legal And Contractual Matters For Employing New And Experienced Physicians
  • Corporate Compliance-Here and Now
  • Physician Contracts That Assure Long Retention And A Productive Practice
  • Why So Many Physician Integration Plans Have Already Fallen Apart And What You Can Do To Keep Yours Strong
  • How To Identify Your Best Options For Integrated Delivery Systems Segments Without Loosing Your Shirt: Lessons That Are Saving Millions li>Enhancing Profitability Of Physician Integration Systems
  • When The Big Guys Are At Your Door, How To Acquire Practices With Someone Else’s Money!
  • Practice Targeting: Replace Your Random Selection With An Organized, Prioritized Approach
  • Management Of Newly Employed Physicians Who’ve Been Independent For Years
  • Creating A Physician Needs Analysis: Today’s Physician Manpower Plan With Physician Input And Support
  • Case Study of a Demonstration
  • Efficient Operations, Billing & Reimbursement
  • Staying Out Of Legal Trouble: Designing A Full Compliance Plan
  • Writing A Realistic, Usable Practice Business Plan
  • Patient Management & Systems
  • Medical Records/Electronic Medical Records
  • Understanding & Interpreting Financial Statements & Information In The Medical Practice
  • Physician Manpower Planning
  • Coding & Reimbursement
  • Practice Valuations
  • Human Resources For Newly Merged Practices
  • Evaluating Managed Care Contracts For The Practice
  • Using Benchmarks as a Strategy for Operational Effectiveness-A Case Study in An Actual Physician Billing Operation
  • Fine Tuning Your CPT/ICD-9 Coding: Capturing Lost Revenue
  • Essential Management Techniques for MSO Billing Office Effectiveness
  • Find Out What’s So Exciting in Practice Information Systems Workshop
  • Improving Operational Efficiency Through Implementation of a Computer-Based Patient Record
  • Developing Physician Leaders and Managers: How To Ensure the Move From Practitioner to Manager is Workable, Timely and Successful
  • Patient and Payer Satisfaction: Keys to Developing Favorable Relationships and Ensuring High Levels of Service
  • Head-On Approaches to Human Resource Issues Arising From Practice Mergers, Acquisitions and Group Formations
  • Are Your Managed Care Operations Maximizing Your Bottom Line?
  • Caution: Success at Running a Hospital Doesn’t Guarantee Success at Physician Practice Management
  • Compliance Strategies in Finance, Patients’ Accounts and Physician Compensation
  • The ABCs of BPR (Business Process Redesign)…From the Time Your Patient Walks in the Door Until the Bill is Paid Workshop
  • Critical Financial Challenges
  • The Impact of a Government Investigation into Your Practice
  • How to Improve the Financial Performance of MSOs and Employed Physician Groups
  • Physician Organization Certification (POC): "Your Sticker on the Door" or Managed Care’s "Good Housekeeping Seal of Approval"
  • Using Hospitals to Streamline Care
  • Case Study of A Health Care Organization’s Compliance Plan Development, Implementation and On-Going Monitoring
  • Evaluating Managed care Contracts Workshops
  • Negotiating Risk Contracts: What You Need to Know to be Successful
  • When to Say No to a Managed Care Relationship
  • Structuring an Economically Sustainable Physician Network
  • Recruitment of Physicians in a Mature Managed Care Market
  • How To Restructure Hospital-Sponsored Physician Practices for Profitability
  • More Than A Buy-Out: Getting Value from a Practice Management Company
  • Restructuring Your Ambulatory System to Become More Competitive and Cost Effective
  • PGP: Gain-Sharing MSOs
  • Legal Enforcement-Protecting Yourself
  • The 7 Critical Factors of Physician Commitment to an Organization
  • Physician Productivity Measurement Tools
  • Physicians as Employees: Writing the Contract for Employed Physicians
  • Performance-Based Compensation for Physicians Workshop
  • Benchmarking Multispecialty Groups
  • The New Level of Credentialing
  • Vital Components of A Compliance Plan for Clinical Laboratories

 

 

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