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The ABCs of Group Visits

DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4614-3526-6

ISBN: 978-1-4614-3525-9

Publisher: Springer New York - Springer Journals

Sep 1, 2012

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Why Try Group Visits in Your Practice?

Noffsinger, Edward B.

Pages: 1 –22

[Faced with the multiple pressures and harsh economic realities of today’s highly competitive healthcare environment (double digit annual increases in the cost of care, ongoing access problems, rapid change, large practices, less time per patient, the expanding medical needs of an aging patient...
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Today’s Three Major Group Visit Models

Noffsinger, Edward B.

Pages: 23 –111

[Today we face the complex realities of exponentially rising demand for high-quality medical services (the need for providing affordable and accessible medical care to evermore patients) coupled with highly limited resources in terms of physician availability and dwindling per capita sources of...
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Twelve Key First Steps

Noffsinger, Edward B.

Pages: 113 –174

[Representing a new biopsychosocial model of care that provides high levels of patient and physician satisfaction, group visits can significantly impact the economics, efficiency, accessibility, quality, and outcomes of healthcare services rendered. However, they carry unique support requirements...
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Weeks Ten and Nine Prior to Launching Your Group Visit

Noffsinger, Edward B.

Pages: 175 –194

[The ten-week pipeline for launching new DIGMAs and PSMAs was developed through the author’s extensive experience in personally launching over 500 DIGMAs and PSMAs with primary and specialty care providers both nationally and internationally. This pipeline presents a timeline as well as all key...
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Weeks Eight, Seven, and Six Prior to Launch

Noffsinger, Edward B.

Pages: 195 –215

[We now need to establish the exact duties of all the physician’s support personnel and provide necessary training, especially on how to effectively invite and schedule patients. In larger systems, the champion and program coordinator will develop training protocols for the physician’s scheduling...
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Weeks Five, Four, and Three Prior to Launch

Noffsinger, Edward B.

Pages: 217 –232

[We are now just past the halfway point in the ten-week pipeline for efficiently developing and launching a high-quality DIGMA or PSMA in your practice. This is a very active time for the entire SMA Department but especially for the program coordinator (Fig. 6.1).]
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Weeks Two and One Prior to Launch

Noffsinger, Edward B.

Pages: 233 –273

[During these last 2 weeks prior to launch, the SMA champion and program coordinator again review how well the first four group visit sessions are filling. Check every day or two to see how many patients are scheduled into your first four SMA sessions. By now, you would ideally like to see the...
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The Launch of Your New Group Visit and Thereafter

Noffsinger, Edward B.

Pages: 275 –328

[The day has finally come to launch your new group visit! Regardless of whether you have chosen to implement the DIGMA, CHCC, or PSMA model in your practice, much hard work has gone into properly designing and implementing your SMA program. The following sections discuss the actual flow of your...

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