Re: Proposal to change Aafp fee structure

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In answer to your questions:

1. There are 987 members listed on the PracticeImprovement1 Yahoo Groups

listserv. However, 185 are " bouncing " , meaning that messages are being bounced

back from their e-mail addresses, so they may no longer be " active " members of

the listserv. So if we take those out, there are still at least 802 active

members of the listserv. However, being a member of the listserv is not the same

as " being an IMP " . No one knows how many of the listserv members have IMP

practices.

2. There are 191 members of the new IdealMedicalPractices website located at

IMPCenter.org. Of these, 83 are paid members. You do not have to have an IMP

practice to be a paid member.

3. There are 203 practices listed on the IMP Map (www.impmap.com), which has

been an informal attempt by me to list as many IMP-style practices as I could

find. I haven't updated the site for a few months so there are undoubtedly some

new ones that should be added to the map and perhaps some practices that should

be removed. BTW, if you have an IMP-style practice and you are not listed on the

IMP Map, but would like to be, please contact me to be added to the IMP Map.

Anyways, I have no basis to support this, but I have a hunch that there are at

least another 100 practices around the country that are practicing as IMP-style

practices but have not reached my level of awareness yet. Kind of like dark

matter. They are out there, but I don't have a way to find them right now. So

there are at least 203 IMP-style practices in the country, and almost certainly

more.

In another message, you asked about overhead goals of 30-40%. I am not aware of

any defined overhead goals for an IMP-style practice. " Lower than a traditional

practice " is the only overhead goal I have ever heard of.

What is your specific proposal to change the AAFP fee structure?

Seto

South Pasadena, CA

> Im looking for quick easy stats, please help as im not finding easily.

> How many imp members? How many on listserve?

> Any sense of numbers of " small practices " ?

>

> I need some stats to support the proposal im writing to request a change in

aafp membership. It currently is one price per provider with no variation in

fees allowed. Im going to take my proposal this thursday to my local county

Aafp chapter to see if they'll support it at a state level. Then if that had

support would go to national level. I doubt it will get very far but change

always starts somewhere.

>

> I'll send to the group so others can try in their own states.

> I understand and support aafp needs money via membership. But I think creative

solutions exist, some of which I'll propose, that could increase membership

without loss of income. Who knows, enough people join up might increase their

revenue. If everyone always just says no, we'll never have a chance to benefit

from change.

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