Karen Blanchette
PAHCOM - Professional Association of Health Care Office Management
PAHCOM is a national network of thousands of medical office managers in the same position as you. PAHCOM has an unmatched state of the art infrastructure custom designed to connect you to your peers for the purpose of sharing knowledge.
Don't reinvent the wheel. The answers are right here, in your association!
Membership benefits:
ListServ Forum - Email service excellent for posing operational questions to thousands of other medical office managers. Ask anything from the group's impression of a vendor you're considering to how to handle employee issues or questions about meaningful use.
Member Search - Every PAHCOM member can easily contact any other member directly with this service. Find other members based on their location or specialty. Pam used Member Search when she moved to a new specialty and wanted to know details for a Psychiatric practice. Her PAHCOM peers offered a wealth of support allowing her to hit the ground running and be a hero for her new doctors.
Member Library - Access to files and documents of all kinds relating to medical office management. PAHCOM members have contributed hundreds of documents to this collection over the years. Here are examples:
Employee Time-Off Request Form
HIPAA Security and Privacy letter to patients
PA/NP Performance Review
Stage 2 Final Rules
Orientation checklist, employee
And much more including education and support.