January/February 2022

Providing solutions to physician executives, physicians, and administrators at every medical group in the country

The flagship publication of AMGA, the Group Practice Journal offers dynamic business solutions to physician leaders and administrators at medical groups around the world.

Penned by healthcare professionals, articles give a view from the trenches of modern medicine on a wide variety of topics. For over 60 years, the Group Practice Journal has been helping medical groups become financially successful while delivering the highest quality health care to their communities.

Features

Case Study

Health Care Without Walls
Featuring Michael Michetti, Esq.
Leveraging technology to succeed in a post-COVID world
 

Trends

We Can Do This!
By Mike Hilleary
The impact of vaccine mandates on healthcare organizations

Trends

Return of the House Call
By Stuart Long
The new norm in patient care

Trends

A Cure for Retention Deficit Disorder
Featuring Fred Horton, M.H.A., and Rose Wagner, RN, M.H.S., FACMPE
Strategies to address our workforce challenge

Tech Talk

Avoid the Digital Trap
By Jessica Scruton, B.S.N., RN, CCM
Care management tools to improve, not impede, patient and provider well-being

Case Study

City Limits
Featuring Leon Jerrels, M.B.A., M.H.A., RN, CPHQ
Impact of health inequities in Houston

Departments

Publisher’s Comment

Challenges Ahead
By Jerry Penso, M.D., M.B.A.
Predictions for health care in 2022

In Washington

Misinterpreting the Law
By Martre Lind
Problems with new cms arbitration process

Industry Insights

Rites of Initiation
By Stephen Shields, M.P.H., Jeff Mohl, Ph.D., and Elizabeth Ciemins, Ph.D., M.P.H., M.A.
Barriers, facilitators, and variation in practices surrounding basal insulin initiation for patients with type 2 diabetes

Foundation Cornerstone

Campaign Strategy
Changing the trajectory of chronic disease

Thought Leader

Finding Optimism in Times of Crisis
An interview with Olmsted Medical Center’s Tim Weir, M.H.A., M.B.A., FACHE