About GFP Membership

Membership

The Group on Faculty Practice (GFP) is composed of both physicians and executive leaders. A medical school may have a total of four representatives in the GFP; members are appointed by the dean of each LCME accredited medical school. Each dean selects one physician representative who holds the senior position in plan governance, and one senior administrator from within the medical school environment as their GFP representatives. Medical School deans may also appoint two additional representatives from governance and administration.

The Group on Faculty Practice has a nine member Steering Committee to assist staff in developing GFP services and educational programs. The Steering Committee holds an annual planning conference, as well as a meeting during the July Summer Symposium and AAMC Annual Meeting in the Fall. At these sessions, the committee coordinates and reviews staff projects, provides input to policy decisions, and plans future meetings. The Group on Faculty Practice Steering Committee has developed multiple subcommittees to better address the vast concerns of the nation's teaching physicians. A nominating committee meets identifies and nominates new officers to the Steering Committee prior to the annual business session conducted at the Summer Symposium.

Publications

Academic Clinical Practice Newsletter is the newsletter for the Group on Faculty Practice. Articles are contributed by GFP members or outside experts. The newsletter highlights management trends in practice plan organizations, primary care networks, managed care, and health law. Other columns discuss member news and the viewpoints of nationally recognized personalities in health care.

In addition, GFP members receive the AAMC's weekly legislative and regulatory newsletter, Washington Highlights, and the monthly news publication, the AAMC Reporter.

GFPLINK Listserve

The AAMC sponsors the "GFPLINK" listserve, exclusively for GFP members. All active GFP Members are subscribed to this list when they establish an e-mail address with the AAMC. This e-mail list provides GFP members with an avenue to pose questions to their peers and receive updates on key issues from the AAMC.

Faculty Practice Plan Survey (FPPS)

The Faculty Practice Plan Survey (previously the Practice Plan Profiles Directory) is a Web-based data collection and reporting system designed exclusively for the GFP. This system collects comprehensive faculty practice plan financial and organizational information and allows participants to conduct individualized queries of the database.

GFP members are able to submit their information to this database through a web-based interface. The data is compiled annually with summary information provided to participants. In addition, those institutions that submit data can query the database and receive detailed information on specific data elements for all other participating plans in the database. Members can also build peer cohorts for benchmarking and other types of analyses.

Faculty Practice Solutions Center (FPSC)

The University HealthSystem Consortium-AAMC Faculty Practice Solutions Center (FPSC) was created to help alleviate the burdensome nature of duplicative data collection and survey activities. It was designed to be a comprehensive resource for academic practice management benchmarking by having the best features of organizations' historical reporting initiatives and by expanding activity to meet critical gaps in the academic practice community's management data needs. FPSC includes data in the areas of physician clinical productivity, departmental financial and operational management, and the practice plan billing office.

AAMC or UHC membership is a sufficient criterion for participation; however, the FPSC is a fee-for-service tool. To learn more about it, or to become a subscriber, please contact Denise Dodero at 202-828-0493, ddodero@aamc.org, or visit the FPSC Web site at www.facultypractice.org.

Advocacy Issues

The GFP Steering Committee has developed multiple subcommittees to better address the vast concerns of the nation's teaching physicians. On December 10, 2001, Dr. Albert Bothe, Jr. — current Chair of the Subcommittee on Legislative and Regulatory Issues — addressed the Practicing Physicians Advisory Council (PPAC) to provide comments on the topic of teaching physician documentation requirements. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) activities to date in this area have focused on changes to the Medicare Carriers Manual section 15016, which refers to the teaching physician regulation. Below are relevant materials provided by CMS staff to PPAC.

MEDICARE Part B Teaching Physician Policy (PDF, 4 pages)
Provided by CMS staff to PPAC

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