Practice Management Resources
The ACCMA provides a wide range of services, tools and resources to help you better manage your medical practice.
Please contact the ACCMA for assistance with any issue you may encounter in your practice, such as:
- Payment disputes and unfair treatment by health plans, government agencies, and others
- Proper reimbursement for your medical services
- Unfair treatment by hospitals
- Medicare enrollment and other confusing regulatory requirements
- Providing information on a broad range of legal issues like HIPAA, informed consent, scope of practice, etc.
In addition, you might wish to peruse the ACCMA online resource guides that we have posted below, which give members convenient online access to information, tools, and resources on a wide range of common subjects. Most of the resources have been created by the ACCMA or our affiliated organizations.
ACCMA Resource Library
- ACCMA Practice Resource Guide
- Developed exclusively for members and applicants, providing guidance and resource listings for establishing and operating a medical practice. Consider the ACCMA your first source for help! more info...
- Allied Health Practitioners
- Contents: "Allied Health Professionals-Business Issues"; "Allied Health Professionals-Liabilty Issues"; "Use of Nonphysician Clinicians in a Medical Practice"; "Working with Physicians Assistants"; Scope of Practice Information for MA's, PA's, RN's, Optometrists, and more; and, Licensing Boards for Allied Health Professionals. more info...
- Billing and Coding
- Managing the claims and revenue cycle, health plan fair payment and contracting obligations, and tools to contest unlawful payment denials and delays. more info...
- Closing a Practice
- Under Construction more info...
- FTC "Red Flag Rule" Compliance Resource Center
- Resources for physicians to comply with new FTC requirement to implement identity theft prevention programs by Aug 1, 2009. Includes compliance guidance for physicians, including a sample policy. more info...
- Health Information Technology Resources
- Information and resources to assist with electronic medical records (EMR) and electronic prescribing (e-prescribing). more info...
- HIPAA/Privacy Resources
- Contents: "Protect Your Patient's Right to Privacy"; "HIPAA's Privacy Act: A Compliance Primer for the Solo and Small Group Practice"; "California Confidentiality of Medical Information Act: Rules for privacy and release of medical information"; "Using e-mail to communicate with patients and other health professionals: What are the pros and cons?"; "Patient education improves care and reduces liability"; "Telephone advice programs - benefits and risks"; "Faxing medical records and other confidential data" more info...
- Malpractice and Loss Prevention
- Contents: "Top reasons you can be sued for malpractice - and lose"; "Avoiding allegations of sexual misconduct"; "Medication-related claims: the causes and their prevention"; "Disclosure of unanticipated outcomes"; "How do I say I'm sorry? Let me count the ways..."; "Failure to treat pain: "elder abuse" claims threaten MDs" more info...
- Managed Care Contracting
- Guidance on analyzing your current managed care contracts and negotiating for fair reimbursement rates. more info...
- Medical Records
- Contents: "How long do we have to keep medical records?"; "Faxing medical records and other confidential data"; "Altered medical records and other charting hazards". more info...
- Medicare Enrollment
- Information for physicians on the process of enrolling as a Medicare provider, updating your Medicare enrollment profile, and using the internet-based enrollment system. more info...
- Patient/Physician Relationship
- Contents: "The physician-patient relationship: an invitation to collaborate"; "How to manage non-compliant patients"; "Patient complaints: how to stop them before they start"; "How to Discharge a Patient from your Medical Practice" more info...
- Quality Improvement
- Contents: "A quality improvement program for an office practice"; "Why, why, why do CQI?" more info...
News
- Medi-Cal Payments on Hold
- While most physicians continue to be paid for Medi-Cal claims, some Medi-Cal payments are being held up while the California Legislature negotiates a new State budget.
- PECOS Enrollment Update
- To ensure adequate time to process applications before the January 3, 2011. Medicare is strongly encouraging physicians who are not currently enrolled in PECOS to initiate Medicare enrollment.
- CalOSHA ATD Regulations
- Effective September 1, new CalOSHA standards will require employers in health care settings to take measures to protect employees from aerosol transmissible diseases.
- MBC Notice to Consumers
- California physicians are now required to provide a "Notice to Consumers" to notify patients that they are licensed and regulated by the Medical Board of California (MBC). Find resources to comply.