Phil visits with Ryan O'Connor, VP of AMGA

by Philip F. Jacobus, CEO | February 01, 2012

Phil visits AMGA's
Virginia headquarters.

Several weeks ago, I visited Ryan O'Connor, V.P. of membership with the American Medical Group Association. I traveled with a friend to the lovely AMGA offices right next to the Potomac River in Alexandria, Va.

Ryan is a high energy guy and even though he dislocated his shoulder skiing in Colorado, he was still at work.

For those of you not familiar with the AMGA, it is an association of large medical groups and integrated health systems. Altogether, there are over 400 member organizations representing 125,000 doctors, who in turn treat 130 million patients -- more than one-third of the U.S. population.

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Ryan told us that a trend they are seeing is that more and more private groups are being absorbed into local hospitals. He said it's neither good news nor bad news, it's just what's happening.

On the positive side, apparently both the physician groups and the hospitals benefit from greater economies of scale. According to Ryan, this is timely, given the shifting emphasis on paying for value and not volume.

The AMGA annual meeting takes place on March 7-10 in San Diego. For more information, go here: www.amga.org.

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About Phil Jacobus

Phil Jacobus has been involved in health care since 1977, when he visited China to sell equipment. He has done business in 35 countries and still travels extensively. Phil is active in charity, helps rural clinics and always tries to help DOTmed users when he can.

Phil is a member of AHRA, HFMA, AAMI and the Cryogenic Society of America. He has contributed to a number of magazines and journals and has addressed trade groups.

Phil's proudest achievement is that he has been happily married to his wife Barbara since 1989, who helped him found DOTmed in 1998.



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