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Practice  Improving Financial Performance at Your Medical
Practice  Financial performance is always a high-interest topic
among medical practices, but this year it is especially so.
Healthcare organizations are experiencing a perfect storm of
financial stressors: rising overhead costs, potential Medicare
reimbursement cuts, a slow and definite shift toward value-based
reimbursements, and increasing patient payment burdens among
them. Now is the time many are wringing their hands, wondering
what their next steps should be.  This year's annual Medical
Group Management Association (MGMA) Conference in San Diego
features more than a dozen sessions devoted to the topic of
financial performance, from improving billing staff's ability to
collect payment to adjusting to new fee schedules.  For
conference attendees wondering which session to attend,
considering where you're bound to see the greatest challenges
may be a good place to start. These may dep