AAEM-PG REPORT
The New AAEM Physician Group Mark Reiter, MD MBA MAAEM FAAEM, AAEM-PG CEO and Robert McNamara, MD MAAEM FAAEM, AAEM-PG CMO
“AAEM Physician Group also stands ready to assist aspiring new democratic physician groups to organize themselves and pitch their services to hospital leaders.”
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AEM Physician Group (AAEM-PG) seeks to improve the marketplace for emergency physicians and their patients through a national consortium of local, independent, democratic emergency physician groups that adhere to the values of AAEM. Our member groups practice in a setting based on fairness and transparency where each physician is an owner. AAEM believes physician groups comprised of local physician owners provide the highest level of care and are most invested in the long-term success of their hospital partners and community. AAEM-PG provides support to independent democratic emergency physician groups, who retain full ownership of their practices. AAEM Physician Group also stands ready to assist aspiring new democratic physician groups to organize themselves and pitch their services to hospital leaders. Since its inception several years ago, AAEM-PG has been successful in helping to start new democratic group practices and to help manage existing democratic groups. We have received a lot of great feedback and ideas from our existing groups and prospective groups over the past few years. We recently performed an extensive evaluation of AAEM-PG’s offerings and are now excited to “reboot” the new AAEM Physician Group. We will be offering groups additional choices for practice management services with different price ranges and scope of services. In addition to our initial practice management partner, PSR (now part of R1), we have several new partners that can assist with your practice management and revenue cycle management (RCM) needs. We will also be offering the opportunity to join the AAEM Physician Group with your existing practice manager and/or RCM company, for those groups that do not need additional assistance in these areas. We have revamped our fee structure to be more transparent and affordable and have unbundled AAEM-PG fees from practice management fees. Physician groups with total ED volumes of < 25k, 25-75k, and 75k+, will have annual dues of $10k, $20k, and $40k respectively (plus practice management and/or RCM fees from our partner companies, if these services are utilized).
We are launching several additional benefits. Your AAEM-PG membership now includes access to our CMO Dr. Robert McNamara and our CEO Dr. Mark Reiter. In addition, AAEM-PG members can access our new Consultation Service, to interact with many of our accomplished physician leader consultants. We can review any aspects of your group’s governance, operations, financials, strategy, clinical policies, etc. to offer suggestions for improvement and to assist your group with any needs you have identified. We can assist you with negotiating with insurers, vendors, etc. AAEM-PG also remains available to help your group navigate through any potential threats to your group and its hospital contract. We can help your group be as successful as possible while maintaining its integrity. Your AAEM-PG membership also now includes a complimentary booth at AAEM Scientific Assembly, complimentary advertisements in the AAEM Job Bank, discounted rates for locums physicians and placements through our new AAEM Locums Group, complimentary registration at our AAEM Management Conference, and complimentary registration for our AAEM Written Board Review Course. We will be offering networking opportunities for AAEM-PG members. With these new benefits and additional flexibility, we plan to significantly grow the size of the AAEM Physician Group over the next year. Please learn more about AAEM-PG at www.aaempg.com and contact us for more information.
“We can help your group be
as successful as possible while maintaining its integrity.”
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