American Medical Group Association
Formation1950 (1950)
TypeTrade association
PurposeAMGA empowers the delivery of coordinated, patient-centered, high-quality, value-driven health care.
HeadquartersAlexandria, Virginia, U.S.
Key people
Jerry Penso (CEO)
Tim Weir (Board Chair)
SubsidiariesAMGA Consulting

AMGA Foundation

AMGA Analytics, LLC
Websitehttp://www.amga.org/

The American Medical Group Association (AMGA) is a non-profit trade association headquartered in Alexandria, Virginia. AMGA represents the interests of multi-specialty medical groups and integrated health systems in the United States.[1]

History

AMGA (originally a group practice association, later named as American Group Practice Association, and further named as AMGA), was founded in 1950 with the intention to uniformly represent the interests of physicians working in group practice settings. In 1974, the association was renamed the American Group Practice Association. In 1996, this group merged with the Unified Medical Group Association to form the American Medical Group Association. In 2016, the American Medical Group Association was re-branded as "AMGA," and a tagline was added, “Advancing High Performing Health."[2]

AMGA Consulting

AMGA Consulting is a professional services firm that provides consulting and advisory services to independent and health-system-affiliated medical groups within the United States. It is a for-profit organization that operates independently from the association.

AMGA Consulting publishes numerous annual surveys, including the Medical Group Compensation and Productivity Survey,[3] which analyze compensation and productivity trends of physicians and advanced practice providers working in a medical group setting.[4]

Political Advocacy

AMGA majorly advocates on behalf of its members at the federal level. Policy issues AMGA has focused on include:

Diabetes: Together 2 Goal Campaign

Together 2 Goal was a three-year, national campaign created by the AMGA Foundation,[5] with the goal of measurably improving the outcome of care for patients in the United States with type 2 diabetes, by 2019. Over 100 medical groups, non-profits, health systems, and corporations, including the American Diabetes Association, American Association of Diabetes Educators, Novo Nordisk, Inc., and Geisinger Health participated in this campaign.[6]

Group Practice Journal

Group Practice Journal (GPJ) is a healthcare-based professional trade magazine, publishing six times each year.[7] GPJ focuses on the topics of practice management, business operations, executive leadership, public policy, information technology & cybersecurity and finance. GPJ relies heavily on crowd-sourced content.

Council of Accountable Physician Practices (CAPP)

The Council of Accountable Physician Practices (CAPP) is a non-profit think tank affiliated with AMGA Foundation. CAPP conducts market research to understand how a medical group organizational model affects healthcare outcomes. The findings of CAPP's research showcase a strongly favorable disposition towards the accountable care model.

See also

References

  1. ↑ "New AMGA president Dr. Jerry Penso wants to make the organization 'more powerful, more relevant.'". Modern Healthcare. Retrieved 2018-07-25.
  2. ↑ "History". www.amga.org. Archived from the original on 2014-03-23. Retrieved 2018-07-24.
  3. ↑ "Physician compensation, production stagnate in 2017, AMGA finds | FierceHealthcare". Fierce Healthcare. 31 July 2018. Retrieved 2018-08-14.
  4. ↑ "AMGA Survey: Value-Based Care Driving C-Suite Compensation Incentives". Healthcare Informatics Magazine. Retrieved 2018-08-29.
  5. ↑ "AMGA hires former Geisinger leader as new chief medical officer". Healthcare IT News. 2018-01-17. Retrieved 2018-07-25.
  6. ↑ HealthITAnalytics. "AMGA Launches Chronic Disease Management Goals for Diabetes". HealthITAnalytics. Retrieved 2018-07-25.
  7. ↑ "Group Practice Journal - Journals - Journals & Congresses". journalsandcongresses.pubshub.com. Retrieved 2018-07-25.
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