Advance Your Career and Join the ACC Cardiovascular Care Team!

Advance your career and join the ACC cardiovascular care team!

Become an “ACC Practice Administrator”

Save $100 by joining by October 31, 2008

Membership extended through December 31st, 2009

Given your expertise and involvement in practice management, we welcome you to be among the founding members of our cardiac care management team program. Keep up to date with key issues in the field and succeed at the interface of practice management and quality cardiovascular care.

The Mission of the Practice Administrator membership is to:

1.  Provide practice administrators with clinical guidelines and tools to improve clinical care management.

2.  Provide practice administrators information on important advocacy, reimbursement and policy issues affecting cardiovascular practice management.

3.  Provide practice administrators the opportunity to shape the future of cardiovascular practice management.

Join ACC to advance operational and financial performance while keeping pace with the fast-changing and challenging healthcare environment. Membership benefits include:

·  Cardiovascular medicine’s news and developments through Cardiosource online- the premier clinical resource in the field, the online Journal of the American College of Cardiology, Cardiology magazine, and a dedicated practice management website.

·  Cardiology Careers online in partnership with HealtheCareers, the one-stop solution for all your practice’s job recruitment needs.

·  Practice guidelines and quality standards for cardiovascular medicine.

·  Professional meetings, including the ACC practice management programs; and the Advanced Cardiology Leadership Workshop in partnership with MedAxiom.

·  Workforce information on physician supply and demand, and team-based care.

·  Advocacy and reimbursement news directly affecting cardiology practices.

·  Leadership opportunities to bring practice administrator perspectives to ACC initiatives.

·  Online community for practice managers to engage colleagues in discussions pertinent to current practice-based management issues.

More detailed information for practice administrators can be found at the following link: http://www.acc.org/practicemgt/practice_management.htm

Practice Administrator application link: http://www.acc.org/about/join/practice_admin_app.pdf.

Thank you for your commitment to the Practice Administrator membership category. If you have any questions, please contact Debjani Mukherjee at 202-375-6212 or .

Attached: Please find the FAQ on Practice Administrators attached to this e-mail