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      David N. Gans, MSHA, FACMPE

      About David N. Gans, MSHA, FACMPE

      David Gans, MSHA, FACMPE, is a national authority on medical practice operations and health systems for the Medical Group Management Association (MGMA), the national association for medical practice leaders. He is an educational speaker, authors a regular Data Mine column in MGMA Connection magazine and is a resource on all areas of medical group practice management for association members. Mr. Gans retired from the United States Army Reserve in the grade of Colonel, is a Certified Medical Practice Executive and a Fellow in the American College of Medical Practice Executives.
      Content by David N. Gans, MSHA, FACMPE
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      Nurse pay
      Data Mine: Falling behind — The nursing pay gap between physician-owned groups and hospital/IDS systems
      Hindsight is 2020: COVID-19 four years later
      Data Mine: Are medical groups better off today than they were four years ago?
      Data Mine - Inflation treadmill
      Running in place – The inflation treadmill of working harder but going nowhere
      Astronaut floating in space
      Data Mine: Defying gravity — Are medical groups entering an era of increased productivity?
      Running on empty: Two empty suits (no human bodies) in a sprint.
      Data Mine: Running on empty — The crisis of continually having to do more with less
      Data Mine: Squeezed - How practices are being crushed by higher cost and static payments
      Data Mine: COVID-19’s impact on the revenue cycle
      A dollar-sign-shaped pothole
      Data Mine: Potholes on the road to recovery
      Bidding wars: Why private practices are struggling to retain nursing staff
      Data Mine: COVID-19 recovery — The long road back to normal
      COVID-19 recovery: Physician compensation and productivity’s slow road back to pre-pandemic normalcy
      Podcast
      Strategies for physician burnout as healthcare emerges from the pandemic
      Podcast
      Executive Session: Following the money on healthcare M&A trends
      Data Mine: You Get What You Pay For
      Is employing physicians a smart strategy or a financial bubble?
      Podcast
      Executive Session: Fair market value and the shift to value-based physician compensation
      Executive Session: Adopting best practices and standardization help mitigate risk amid the Great Resignation
      Data Mine: Measuring success — Finding the right metrics to optimize the revenue cycle
      Executive Session: Alternative dispute resolution — Using negotiation, mediation and arbitration to reduce legal costs
      Data Mine: COVID-19 misery — How the pandemic affected practice financial performance
      Podcast
      Executive Session: How hospitals and independent practices co-exist in a wave of consolidation
      Executive Session: Managing the transition from volume to value
      Data Mine: COVID-19 misery — How the pandemic affected physician compensation
      Nate Moore
      Executive Session: For COVID-19 recovery, medical practices need better data — and need it faster
      Provider Compensation - Money and Stethoscope
      Staying ahead of inflation: Physician compensation is increasing faster than the cost of living
      Podcast
      Executive Session: The need to "identify, quantify and justify" practice losses in HOPDs
      Executive Session: Making sense of the new Stark Law regulations with Tim Smith
      Podcast
      Executive Session: Confronting the growing threats to medical practice cybersecurity
      Data Mine: Reaping what you sow — Keys to MGMA Better Performer productivity
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      Executive Session: Effective telehealth in pediatrics, OB/GYN to counter future spikes in COVID-19
      Podcast
      Executive Session: Cultivating accountability and results through executive coaching
      MGMA Better Performers
      Data Mine: Good management is timeless
      Executive Session: Improving telemedicine by training effective “medical virtualists”
      COVID
      Executive Session: How COVID-19 is bringing innovation to healthcare facility design
      20-year cost and revenue graph
      Data Mine: Quo vadis? 20 years of cost and revenue data help point to what’s to come
      Executive Session: Building new safety measures into a medical practice’s “new normal”
      A close up of a microphone
      Executive Session: Successful physician recruiting and leadership strategies in a health system
      Executive Session: Tim Coan on independent physicians bucking the trend of hospital employment
      Executive Session: Javon Bea on getting out ahead of value-based disruption
      Better benchmarks for E/M coding comparisons
      21st Century Cures Act: After 10 years of broken promises, is EHR interoperability finally at hand?
      Data Mine: The big picture on productivity
      Executive Session: Educating the next generation of healthcare leaders with Errol Biggs
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      Data Mine: The secret of staffing success
      A close up of a microphone
      Executive Session: Gary Herschman on private equity investment in healthcare
      Dave Gans
      Data Mine: Urban mythbusting
      Executive Session: Bridging the gap between patient expectation and experience through marketing
      Data Mine: Predicting bad debt with key revenue cycle metrics
      Executive Session: Viewing your medical practice through the patient's eyes
      A woman looking at a computer screen
      Executive Session: Getting the data you need for better decision-making
      Executive Session: Globetrotting for ideas to transform U.S. healthcare
      Data Mine: The administrative burden of operating a medical group
      Executive Session: Before redesigning a medical practice, rethink what design means
      Data Mine: What is driving physician compensation?
      Executive Session: Should your EHR system stay or should it go?
      Data Mine: Who pays the most for health IT?
      Data Mine - May 2018 MGMA Connection
      Finding the right revenue cycle benchmarks
      metal gears showing improvement
      Staffing evolution: Responding to a new environment
      Flooded by data while thirsting for information
      Hitting the budget bull’s-eye
      A graph of a number of people
      Threading the needle: The right support for high producing medical practices
      Looking for margin in all the wrong places
      Designing the practice of the future
      An administrator’s dilemma: Minimize cost or maximize revenue
      Cost-efficiency with medical group staffing
      Data Mine: Avoid the 'dead zone' of global payment
      Benchmarking Success: The Essential Guide for Medical Practice Managers, 2nd Edition
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