Program areas at Mgma-Acmpe
Membership services - as the association for professionals in the field of medical group practice administration, the association provided services to its members including communications on pertinent issues of the profession, information on products and services and other activities to promote the medical group practice administration industry and its members. With a membership of more than 60,000 medical practice administrators, executives, and leaders, mgma represents more than 15,000 group medical practices ranging from small private medical practices to large national health systems representing more than 350,000 physicians. In addition, the association's government affairs staff monitored and engaged in advocacy efforts related to federal legislation and regulations that affect medical group practices. The government affairs staff also educated the membership on health care news, events and changing federal requirements. They published approximately 54 educational electronic newsletters with an average circulation of approximately 40,100.
Surveys and publications - the association conducted annual surveys designed to provide critical information for business planning, management, staffing and compensation purposes. The association published 6 electronic and 1 printed survey reports presenting benchmarking data and sold approximately 4,100 surveys. In addition, the association published print and ebooks and sold approximately 5,100 manuals and textbooks on medical practice management topics, including resources from other publishers.
Education and certification -the association provided medical practice management administration education to approximately 16,000 attendees, presenting education via formal classroom programming on a national, regional and state basis. The association provided education for 2,000 attendees at face-to-face events and 2,700 at digital conferences. Computer-based and audio-conference training was presented to approximately 11,300 attendees.in addition, certificates, board certification, and fellowship level certification are offered to members through meeting established core competencies and objectives identified for the industry by our credentialing body. A total of 314 certificates were completed, 477 exam components were given to examinees, 53 members received board certification during fy23 and 170 certified members were advanced to fellow status.