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. The association serves more than 60,000 members. 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 62 educational electronic newsletters with an average circulation of approximately 41,000.
Surveys and publications - the association conducted annual surveys designed to provide critical information for business planning, management, staffing and compensation purposes. The association published 7 electronic and 1 printed survey reports presenting benchmarking data and sold approximately 5,000 surveys. In addition the association published print and ebooks and sold approximately 6,000 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 13,000 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 4,400 at digital conferences. Computer-based and audio-conference training was presented to approximately 6,400 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 493 certificates were completed, 591 exam components were given to examinees, 92 members received board certification during fy22 and 32 certified members were advanced to fellow status.