Business Fundamentals for New Physicians
Online CME
As you transition to full-time practice, you—like many of your peers before you—likely will discover that the business side of medical practice isn’t fully covered in residency.
This course is designed to guide you to a better understanding of the principles of practice management and help you get off to a good start in your career.
You’ll learn about:
- Maximizing payment received for services provided (billing and coding).
- Optimizing marketing tools to brand your practice (including within a hospital or healthcare system).
- Using a team-based approach to care.
- Becoming more efficient and outcomes focused.
Harness knowledge from experts in areas such as marketing and legal matters as well as fellow family physicians to not only navigate the business side of medicine, but also best position yourself for succes.
AAFP Member: $325
New Physician: $275
Student or Resident: $215
Other Health Care Professional: $325
Nonmember: $425
A Step-by-Step Time-Saving Approach to Coding Office Visits
Keith Millette MD, FAAFP
Basics Concepts of QI and Pop Health
Tamaan Osbourne-Roberts MD, FAAFP
Billing and Coding with OMT
Sarah James, DO
Building a Brand
Saya Heathco
Building Your Patient Population
Ziad Jureidini and Hani Chaabo, MD
CAHPS Clinician: Brief Overview and Practice Applications
David E Schultz MD, FAAFP
Coding and Documentation for Minor Procedures
Shellie Sulzberger LPN, CPC, ICDCT-CM
Credentialing Basics and the Importance of Maintaining Documented Proficiencies
David Schultz MD, FAAFP
EHR Management: Practical Ways to Manage Your EHR Inbox
Jay Winner MD, FAAFP
Get Home Earlier with Efficient Documentation
Jay Winner MD, FAAFP
Healthcare Organizations: Structure and Decision-Making
Ravi Shah MD, MPH, MBA, FAAFP
Leading Effective Teams
Jason Marker MD, FAAFP and Erin Fajen, M.Ed.
Leveraging Social Media to Benefit Your Brand and Patients
Lance Braye MD, FAAFP
Negotiating Your Physician Employment Agreement: Key Terms and Strategies
Ericka Adler, JD
Organization of Healthcare: Financial Statements
Ravi Shah, MD, MPH, MBA, FAAFP
Reflection Session with T2P*
Ravi Shah MD, MPH, MBA, FAAFP; Tamaan Osbourne-Roberts MD, FAAFP; David E Schultz MD, FAAFP; Stacey Bartell, MD
Team Based Care: Workflows and Efficiency
Kevin Hopkins, MD
Understanding and Improving RVUs
Thomas Weida MD, FAAFP
*Enhance your patient care today and earn up to 2 additional AAFP Prescribed credits for when you complete the Translation to Practice® (t2p®) process.
Upon completion of this CME activity, you should be able to:
- Develop a plan to get up to date on current billing and coding practices.
- Review your role on a patient-centered team, and how to use a team-based approach to maximize patient and panel outcomes.
- Determine how to become more effective as a family physician in the context of the business of medicine by better understanding finances and business organization, efficiency in the EMR, and marketing to maximize patient and panel outcomes.
- High-speed broadband connection required for online access.
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- Latest version of Adobe Reader.
The AAFP has reviewed Business Fundamentals for New Physicians and deemed it acceptable for up to 14 Enduring Materials, Self-Study AAFP Prescribed credit. Term of Approval is from 6/26/2023 to 6/26/2025. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
AAFP Prescribed credit is accepted by the American Medical Association as equivalent to AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™ toward the AMA Physician's Recognition Award. When applying for the AMA PRA, Prescribed credit earned must be reported as Prescribed credit, not as Category 1.
CME activities approved for AAFP credit are recognized by the AOA as equivalent to AOA Category 2 credit.
Following this CME activity, participants will have the opportunity to earn an additional two Prescribed credits for participation in each Translation to Practice® exercise. Information on Translation to Practice® will be shared within the activity.