Medical Group Management Association (MGMA)

In this two-day seminar, Davis Balestracci, author of the best selling book, Data Sanity: A Quantum Leap to Unprecendented Results, states in the preface to his book, “My goal is to teach a new way of thinking via a common organizational language based in process and understanding variation to motivate more productive ...conversations for everyone.” Balestracci will take you beyond the basic quality improvement focus on tools and statistics, “creating a culture of cooperation, support, and collaboration to eradicate poor processes and declare war on waste to the point where it becomes an obsession.” The health care organizations of the near future must find the tools and resources within their organizations to bring about the needed changes to the delivery of health care in medical group practices.

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Improving Practice Profitability through Cost Management and Financial Analysis

A focus on cost management and financial analysis is critical to improving your practice’s bottom line. Through activities such as ratio analysis, internal comparisons and benchmarking, you can discover opportunities for improving your pract...ice’s profitability. During this day-and-a-half seminar, two experts will guide you through the essentials of financial analysis and cost accounting from a medical practice perspective and discuss budgeting, internal controls and relative value units (RVUs) in practice accounting.

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