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The Administrator, formerly known as Group Management Quarterly (GMQ), provides medical group administrators with useful information about SCPIE products and programs, topics of concern to groups and a forum where these issues are addressed, book reviews and practice analysis by veteran management consultants.

2007
October 2007  (PDF)
  • Written Materials — Are the Messages Clear?
  • Welcome to the Inaugural Issue of The Administrator
  • We’ve Got You Covered: SCPIE Policies for Administrators and Groups
  • The Administrator Forum: What strategies do you use to ensure that your physicians are not overscheduled?
  • Book Review: "Star-Studded Service: 6 Steps to Winning Patient Satisfaction"
  • Consultant's POV: Six Tips to Improve Staff Productivity
2006
Fourth Quarter '06  (PDF)
  • Consumer-Driven Health Plans: The Insurance Pendulum Swing
  • SCPIE Base Rate to Remain Constant
  • Practice Management Q&A (Jeff Denning): Minimizing the Receptionist Turnover Problem
  • GMQ Transforms into The Administrator
Third Quarter '06  (PDF)
  • Bridging the Communication Gap by Breaking the Language Barrier
  • Practice Administrator Q&A: House Ear Clinic's Stephanie Baio and Stan Augustine
  • Practice Management Q&A (Gail Lorenzen, CHBC): Easy-on-the-Pocket Marketing
First Quarter '06  (PDF)
  • Navigating the Medicare Part D Maze
  • Practice Management Q&A (Yvonne Mart Fox): Protect Your Practice Before Disaster Strikes
2005
Fourth Quarter '05  (PDF)
  • Medical Group Administrators Seminar: Electronic Medical Records Are Here!
  • 2006 SCPIE Rate Review
  • Practice Management Q&A (Jeffrey J. Denning): Creating a Fair Patient Assignment System
Third Quarter '05  (PDF)
  • Reducing Your Group’s Risk for Malpractice
  • In the News: Credentialing Simplified
  • An Interview with General Anesthesia Specialists Partnership’s Donald K.Garner
  • Practice Management Q&A (Gail Lorenzen, CHBC): The Noncompliant Doctor
Second Quarter '05  (PDF)
  • SCPIE Offers CME Pain Management Course
  • The Role of Office Staff in Maintaining Patient Satisfaction
  • New Laws Affect Physicians, Groups
  • An Interview with ProHealth Partners’ Linda Grow
  • Practice Management Q&A (Yvonne Mart Fox): When a Physician Partner Retires
2004
Fourth Quarter '04  (PDF)
  • At the End of Life, Comfort as Well as Care
  • An Interview With San Dimas Medical Group's Peg Board
  • Practice Management Q&A (Jeffrey J. Denning): Dealing With Unacceptable Physician Behavior
  • At Your Service
Third Quarter '04  (PDF)
  • Health Literacy: Can Your Patients Understand Your Physicians?
  • SCPIE to Host Employment Law Seminar
  • Supreme Court Decision Strikes Down Patients’ Right to Sue HMOs
  • An Interview with St. Jude Heritage’s C.R. Burke
  • Practice Management Q&A (Yvonne Mart Fox): Protecting Patient Privacy
Second Quarter '04  (PDF)
  • The Many Facets of Vicarious Liability
  • What Physicians Can Do to Avoid Claims of Elder Care Abuse
  • An Interview with Scripps Clinic's Marge Owens
  • Practice Management Q&A (Gail Lorenzen): Legibility and Liability
 
2003
Fourth Quarter '03  (PDF)
  • State Court Upholds Medical Group's Right to Terminate Patients Who sue
  • Elder Care Abuse Litigation—A Growing Threat to Physicians
  • An Interview with Desert Cardiology's Robert Jetland
  • Practice Management Q&A (Yvonne Mart Fox): Integrating a New Partner
 
2002
First Quarter '02  (PDF)
  • The Impact of HMO Initiatives to Reward Doctors for High-quality care
  • An Interview with John Whitelaw MD, President of Sutter Medical Group and President-elect of the California Medical Association
 
2001
Third Quarter '01  (PDF)
  • HHS Sheds Light on HIPAA Privacy Protections
  • SCPIE Offers New Risk Management CD-ROM
  • SCPIE Expands Physician’s Personal Leave Benefit
  • HIPAA: Estimating the Potential Benefits of Administrative Simplification
Second Quarter '01  (PDF)
  • Managed Care Contracting: The Basics of Contract Negotiation
  • Managed Care Contracting: Getting Health Plans to Pay What They Owe
 
2000
Third Quarter '00  (PDF)
  • Improved SCPIE MCO Policy Shields Against Managed Care Liability Risks
  • An Interview with GASP’s Ronald Wender MD
First Quarter '00  (PDF)
  • How to Handle Healthcare Billing Fraud and Abuse Investigations
  • SCPIE/AHI Adds Free Incident Coverage Trigger Endorsement
  • Compliance Plan: Managing the Risk in Billing
  • 10 Early Warning Signs of a Troubled Managed Care Physician Organization