Practice Management Update Introducing: New PSG Membership Opportunity for GI Practice Managers R. Fraser Stokes, MD. PSG Practice Management Task Force Chair. August 2020
“ You don’t get paid for the hour. You get paid for the value you bring to the hour.” — Jim Rohn, American entrepreneur, @FraserStokes author, and motivational speaker
The PSG is excited to announce a
new membership category for GI practice managers. This membership would be open to those that are involved in business management functions for practices, academic departments, clinics, and ambulatory surgery centers that provide care for digestive diseases. The PSG board’s goal is to provide value to our members by helping business managers run their practices more efficiently. The PSG would hope to become a place for these professionals to learn ways to better do their job, to meet and develop relationships with their peers, to share strategies and ideas with others, and to easily ask and have answered GI business questions.
The plan is first to have dedicated programming for practice managers at our annual meeting, both for networking and for education. Secondly, we hope to arrange for quarterly Zoom meetings for the practice manager members to discuss issues of interest. Lastly, we intend to have occasional articles written in Rumblings by GI managers covering topics that they feel are most important for their peers. The bylaws are undergoing change to incorporate the specifics of this membership that will be available to all managers that work on a team with a PSG physician member. The membership fee will be set at $50, and the membership application will be easily submitted via the PSG web site. I am happy to report that Gary Macioce of SWGI Specialists in Uniontown, PA, and Stephen Gildea of Blair Gastroenterology Associates in Altoona, PA have agreed to be co-chairs of this newly formed group of practice managers. Mr.’s Macioce and Gildea will also serve on the larger PSG practice management task force where they can share managers’ ideas from Zoom and on-site meetings with PSG physician leaders.
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Potential discussion items include billing and coding; infection control, physician and staff recruiting, leadership strategies, prior authorization, infusion services, group purchasing organizations, EMR systems, ancillary services (e.g. pathology, anesthesia), advanced practice providers, pandemic preparedness, clinical research opportunities, and relevant lecture topics at the annual meetings. On behalf of the board of the PSG, I encourage you to discuss this valuable new opportunity with the managers at your GI workplace.
