American Medical Group Association
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The American Medical Group Association is a national trade association
representing medical groups and other organized systems of health care
, including some of the nation’s largest integrated healthcare delivery systems. More than 95,000 physician
s practice in American Medical Group Association member organizations, providing healthcare services for approximately 95 million patients (more than one in four Americans).
Headquartered in Alexandria, Virginia
, American Medical Group Association (AMGA) provides services to member medical groups, including political advocacy, educational and networking programs, publications, benchmarking data services, and financial and operations assistance.
. Over the years, AMGA has become one of the primary advocates of group practice, promoting multispecialty medical groups and other organized systems of care as the preferred delivery system for coordinated, patient-centered, efficient, quality medical care in America.
Founded in 1950 as the American Association of Medical Clinics, the organization was renamed the American Group Practice Association (AGPA) in 1974. In mid-1996, AGPA merged with the Unified Medical Group Association (UMGA) to form the American Medical Group Association.
and financial survey of medical groups and organized systems of care and published the results to aid medical groups (particularly large, integrated health systems) in benchmarking compensation and financial performance. The annual Medical Group Compensation and Financial Survey presents detailed data on compensation for healthcare professionals and on medical group financials. The data may be used in conjunction with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) regulations at 42 CFR §413.78(f).
Trade association
A trade association, also known as an industry trade group, business association or sector association, is an organization founded and funded by businesses that operate in a specific industry...
representing medical groups and other organized systems of health care
Health care
Health care is the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of disease, illness, injury, and other physical and mental impairments in humans. Health care is delivered by practitioners in medicine, chiropractic, dentistry, nursing, pharmacy, allied health, and other care providers...
, including some of the nation’s largest integrated healthcare delivery systems. More than 95,000 physician
Physician
A physician is a health care provider who practices the profession of medicine, which is concerned with promoting, maintaining or restoring human health through the study, diagnosis, and treatment of disease, injury and other physical and mental impairments...
s practice in American Medical Group Association member organizations, providing healthcare services for approximately 95 million patients (more than one in four Americans).
Headquartered in Alexandria, Virginia
Alexandria, Virginia
Alexandria is an independent city in the Commonwealth of Virginia. As of 2009, the city had a total population of 139,966. Located along the Western bank of the Potomac River, Alexandria is approximately six miles south of downtown Washington, D.C.Like the rest of northern Virginia, as well as...
, American Medical Group Association (AMGA) provides services to member medical groups, including political advocacy, educational and networking programs, publications, benchmarking data services, and financial and operations assistance.
History
The American Medical Group Association was born out of the desire for physicians practicing in groups to improve the quality of patient care by sharing best practices, experiences, and strategies with their peersPeer group
A peer group is a social group consisting of humans. Peer groups are an informal primary group of people who share a similar or equal status and who are usually of roughly the same age, tended to travel around and interact within the social aggregate Members of a particular peer group often have...
. Over the years, AMGA has become one of the primary advocates of group practice, promoting multispecialty medical groups and other organized systems of care as the preferred delivery system for coordinated, patient-centered, efficient, quality medical care in America.
Founded in 1950 as the American Association of Medical Clinics, the organization was renamed the American Group Practice Association (AGPA) in 1974. In mid-1996, AGPA merged with the Unified Medical Group Association (UMGA) to form the American Medical Group Association.
AMGA Annual Compensation Survey
For 22 years, the association has conducted a compensationIncome
Income is the consumption and savings opportunity gained by an entity within a specified time frame, which is generally expressed in monetary terms. However, for households and individuals, "income is the sum of all the wages, salaries, profits, interests payments, rents and other forms of earnings...
and financial survey of medical groups and organized systems of care and published the results to aid medical groups (particularly large, integrated health systems) in benchmarking compensation and financial performance. The annual Medical Group Compensation and Financial Survey presents detailed data on compensation for healthcare professionals and on medical group financials. The data may be used in conjunction with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) regulations at 42 CFR §413.78(f).
Corporate family
American Medical Group Association is made up of several entities.- American Medical Group Foundation (AMGF) - The philanthropicPhilanthropyPhilanthropy etymologically means "the love of humanity"—love in the sense of caring for, nourishing, developing, or enhancing; humanity in the sense of "what it is to be human," or "human potential." In modern practical terms, it is "private initiatives for public good, focusing on quality of...
arm of American Medical Group Association, dedicated to demonstrating that the total coordinated care model continues to provide the highest quality, cost-effective, efficient care possible and to fostering quality improvement in group practice through education and research programs in clinical quality, patient safety, service, operational efficiency, and innovation.
- Council of Accountable Physician Practices (CAPP) - An affiliate of AMGF, CAPP is a joint undertaking by some of the nation's largest and most prominent physician practices to foster the evolution and development of the accountable physician group model.
- Anceta, LLC - Anceta is a for-profit informatics and analytic company formed to transform comprehensive healthcare information into actionable knowledge and accountable, evidence-based practice. This data warehouseData warehouseIn computing, a data warehouse is a database used for reporting and analysis. The data stored in the warehouse is uploaded from the operational systems. The data may pass through an operational data store for additional operations before it is used in the DW for reporting.A data warehouse...
is the only national effort to collect and share critical information across non-affiliated medical group organizations.