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What Bob Dylan said about the social times of the 1960s certainly applies to health care today. For the last 6 years, I have had the honor to serve as a member of the AGA Practice Management and Economics Committee (PMEC), spending the last 3 years as its chair.
Over this period, I have seen a significant shift in our employment settings and how challenging they are to track. Whereas in the past our group structures were fairly stable, today we are living in an era of change.
Practices are merging with other GI practices to form large mega groups or selling to hospitals. Ambulatory surgical centers formed years ago are being sold to large management companies. Traditional payor relationships are being disrupted by accountable-care organizations.
This has even affected academic medical centers where hospital mergers are progressing at a rapid pace. AGA is working hard to support you during these unpredictable times.
Before changes can be implemented and new tools developed, AGA needs to gather accurate, timely data on the status of your practices – that’s why the PMEC is preparing to launch a practice-benchmarking survey to gather key information about your practice settings. With this information, AGA will develop a practice management toolbox containing resources to support members in practice and your practice administrators.
The final results will help you understand how you compare or benchmark with your colleagues by geographic location, practice size, and many other important data points.
The work will not end there. AGA plans to conduct future surveys to track changes over time. Through the AGA Roadmap to the Future of GI, we will continue to develop new resources to help your practice thrive in the continually changing health care environment.
We will be reaching out to you over the summer to enlist your participation in this important survey. It’s imperative that we stay ahead of the ever-changing outside forces.
What Bob Dylan said about the social times of the 1960s certainly applies to health care today. For the last 6 years, I have had the honor to serve as a member of the AGA Practice Management and Economics Committee (PMEC), spending the last 3 years as its chair.
Over this period, I have seen a significant shift in our employment settings and how challenging they are to track. Whereas in the past our group structures were fairly stable, today we are living in an era of change.
Practices are merging with other GI practices to form large mega groups or selling to hospitals. Ambulatory surgical centers formed years ago are being sold to large management companies. Traditional payor relationships are being disrupted by accountable-care organizations.
This has even affected academic medical centers where hospital mergers are progressing at a rapid pace. AGA is working hard to support you during these unpredictable times.
Before changes can be implemented and new tools developed, AGA needs to gather accurate, timely data on the status of your practices – that’s why the PMEC is preparing to launch a practice-benchmarking survey to gather key information about your practice settings. With this information, AGA will develop a practice management toolbox containing resources to support members in practice and your practice administrators.
The final results will help you understand how you compare or benchmark with your colleagues by geographic location, practice size, and many other important data points.
The work will not end there. AGA plans to conduct future surveys to track changes over time. Through the AGA Roadmap to the Future of GI, we will continue to develop new resources to help your practice thrive in the continually changing health care environment.
We will be reaching out to you over the summer to enlist your participation in this important survey. It’s imperative that we stay ahead of the ever-changing outside forces.
What Bob Dylan said about the social times of the 1960s certainly applies to health care today. For the last 6 years, I have had the honor to serve as a member of the AGA Practice Management and Economics Committee (PMEC), spending the last 3 years as its chair.
Over this period, I have seen a significant shift in our employment settings and how challenging they are to track. Whereas in the past our group structures were fairly stable, today we are living in an era of change.
Practices are merging with other GI practices to form large mega groups or selling to hospitals. Ambulatory surgical centers formed years ago are being sold to large management companies. Traditional payor relationships are being disrupted by accountable-care organizations.
This has even affected academic medical centers where hospital mergers are progressing at a rapid pace. AGA is working hard to support you during these unpredictable times.
Before changes can be implemented and new tools developed, AGA needs to gather accurate, timely data on the status of your practices – that’s why the PMEC is preparing to launch a practice-benchmarking survey to gather key information about your practice settings. With this information, AGA will develop a practice management toolbox containing resources to support members in practice and your practice administrators.
The final results will help you understand how you compare or benchmark with your colleagues by geographic location, practice size, and many other important data points.
The work will not end there. AGA plans to conduct future surveys to track changes over time. Through the AGA Roadmap to the Future of GI, we will continue to develop new resources to help your practice thrive in the continually changing health care environment.
We will be reaching out to you over the summer to enlist your participation in this important survey. It’s imperative that we stay ahead of the ever-changing outside forces.
