American Medical Group Association

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

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, MD, MBA (CEO) Grace E. Terrell, M.D., M.M.M. (Board Chair)
SubsidiariesAMGA Consulting

AMGA Foundation

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

History

AMGA was founded in 1950 as a way to help physicians practicing in groups share best practices, experiences, and strategies with one another. In 1974, the association was renamed the American Group Practice Association. In 1996 it merged with the Unified Medical Group Association to form the American Medical Group Association. In 2016, the American Medical Group Association re-branded as "AMGA," and added the tagline “Advancing High Performing Health."[2]

AMGA Consulting

AMGA Consulting is a professional services firm that provides consulting and advisory services to multi-specialty medical groups and integrated health systems across the United States. Although AMGA Consulting is affiliated with AMGA, it operates independently from the association, as a for-profit organization.

AMGA Consulting publishes AMGA's annual Medical Group Compensation and Productivity Survey,[3] which collects member-submitted data and reports on compensation, productivity and workRVU averages and trends for all physician specialties and advanced practice providers. AMGA Consulting also conducts similar, non-annualized surveys to report on medical group finance, operations and executive compensation.[4]

Political Advocacy

AMGA primarily 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 is 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 participate in this campaign.[6]

Group Practice Journal

Group Practice Journal (GPJ) is a healthcare-based professional trade magazine, published 10 times each year.[7] GPJ focuses on topics of the topics of practice management, business operations, executive leadership, public policy, information technology & cybersecurity and finance. GPJ relies heavily on content crowd-sourced from member and nonmembers.

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". www.fiercehealthcare.com. 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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