Course Overview

Business Models for Medical Group Visits

For those who are looking for successful business models in sustaining and starting their medical group visit programs.
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2023 Annual Conference

October 6-8, 2023

Required Lessons

1 lesson with video, quiz, and evaluation

Time to Complete

41 minutes

CME Eligible*

.75 credit(s)

Detailed Course Info

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Course Description
Learning Objectives
Accreditation/CME

Course Description

This session is for those who are looking for successful business models in sustaining and starting their medical group visit programs. National trends will also be discussed.

Accreditation/CME

Accreditation Statement

This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) through the joint providership of the University of California, Irvine School of Medicine and the Academy of Integrative Health & Medicine. The University of California, Irvine School of Medicine is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians. 
The University of California, Irvine School of Medicine designates this enduring material for a maximum of .75 AMA PRA Category 1 CreditsTM. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity. All other healthcare professionals completing this activity will be issued a certificate of participation. 
To successfully earn credit, participants must review the content, complete a quiz with a score of 75% or higher, and submit an evaluation. This course is CME-eligible ending on October 5, 2024. After this date, you will continue to have access to your purchased content, however you will no longer be able to claim CME credits for your participation in the course.

California Assembly Bill 1195 and 241

This activity is in compliance with California Assembly Bill 1195 and 241, which require CME activities with patient care components to include curriculum in the subjects of cultural and linguistic competency & implicit bias. It is the intent of AB 1195 and AB 241 to encourage physicians and surgeons, CME providers in the State of California, and the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to meet the cultural and linguistic concerns of a diverse patient population and reduce health disparities through appropriate professional development. Please see the CME website, www.meded.uci.edu/cme, for AB 1195 and AB 241 resources.
For questions about CME credit, please contact us at https://www.aihm.org/contact/. The views and opinions expressed in this activity are those of the faculty and do not necessarily reflect the views of the University of California, Irvine School of Medicine and/or the Academy of Integrative Health & Medicine.
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Learning Objectives

By the end of the course, learners will be able to:
  • Name two business models frequently used in medical group visit programs.
  • List one advantage for fee for service in billing medical group visit programs.
  • Describe one potential group visit business model one can use in low income populations.

What's included in this course?

This course includes the following:
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  • Video Recording
  • Downloadable Audio
  • Speaker Handout(s)
  • Quiz
  • Evaluation
  • Certificate of Completion
  • CME/CEUs

Course Outline

Meet Your Faculty

Paula Gardiner, MD, MPH

Dr. Paula Gardiner, MD, MPH, is the Director of Primary Care Implementation Research at the Center for Mindfulness and Compassion at Cambridge Health Alliance. An Associate Professor of Family Medicine and Community Health at the University of Massachusetts School, she leads the group medical visit program at the Center for Integrated Primary Care and is a founder of the Center for Integrated Medical Group Visits. With an MPH from the Harvard School of Public Health and a Clinical Research Fellowship in Complementary and Alternative Medicine Research from Harvard Medical School, she focuses her NIH and PCORI-funded research on mindfulness, technology, and health disparities in low-income patients. Dr. Gardiner has published over 90 peer-reviewed papers on chronic pain, health disparities, technology, dietary supplements, stress, and integrative medicine. As a certified meditation teacher and Mindful Self-Compassion teacher, she leads mindfulness-based stress reduction classes and facilitates Ron Epstein MD and Mick Krasner MD's Mindfulness Practice program nationally.

Disclosure

No financial relationships with any ineligible companies to disclose.