Practice Management

Optimize Operations, Enhance Care, and Elevate Outcomes

ACOFP offers tools and materials designed to optimize your practice's operations, enhance patient interactions, and elevate the quality of care outcomes. Discover a selection of on-demand videos and webcasts, educational materials for patients, legal resources, and ICD-10 coding aids to ensure the seamless functioning of your practice.

Accessible Patient Materials

Every edition of the Osteopathic Family Physician (OFP), ACOFP's flagship journal, includes at least one patient handout crafted for immediate use. These handouts are conveniently available for download as PDFs, allowing for straightforward printing and distribution to your patients.

Rural Practice Initiative

Rural medical practices encounter unique challenges that set them apart from their urban counterparts. With typically smaller patient volumes, the characteristics and healthcare needs of rural populations differ, as do patient behaviors.

Complications arise in managing patient care, particularly when specialists are involved; often, patients must travel great distances, sometimes exceeding 100 miles, to see a specialist. The information and resources provided here are tailored to address these distinct issues and offer targeted support to physicians in rural areas.

Medicaid & Chip Reauthorization Act (MACRA), or the Quality Payment Program, has a significant impact on rural providers. Physicians who practice at Rural Health Clinics or Federally Qualified Health Centers are exempt from reporting data under the QPP unless they are seeing Medicare Part B patients at different clinics or hospitals.

Value-Based Care

Value-based care (VBC) is a healthcare model that shifts the focus from the volume of services provided to the quality of care received by patients. This approach emphasizes the outcomes and experiences of patients rather than the number of procedures or tests performed. The goal is to improve patient health, enhance the healthcare experience, and reduce overall costs.

ACOFP and Partner Resources on Value-Based Care

Value-Based Care in Rural America

From ACOFP Corporate Council Roundtable Partner, Main Street Health

Direct Primary Care Practice Model

Direct Primary Care (DPC) is a healthcare delivery model where patients pay their healthcare providers a periodic fee, often monthly, for a set of primary care services, bypassing traditional insurance billing methods. This model is patient-centered, aiming to improve access and the quality of care through a more personal and direct relationship between patients and providers.