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SAMGMA

The Bexar County Medical

Society & The San Antonio

Medical Group Management

Association Working Together

to Improve Medical

Practice Management

By Tom Tidwell, CMPE – SAMGMA President

The Bexar County Medical Society and San Antonio Medical
Group Management Association leadership meet quarterly to dis-
cuss issues that affect physicians and medical practice management.
Each quarter the senior staff of BCMS (Steve Fitzer, Melody New-
som, Mary Nava and Brissa Vela) meet with the current SAMGMA
Board of Directors (Tom Tidwell, Randy Becker, Shameka Moore,
Tom Duran and Tina Turnipseed). BCMS and SAMGMA have
been working together for years to support our physicians with a
common goal… ensuring their success!
Similar to the Bexar County Medical Society and the Texas Med-
ical Association, SAMGMA is the local affiliate of Texas MGMA.
SAMGMA currently has over 100 members locally and BCMS has
over 5,000 members.
The SAMGMA Board of Directors appreciates the physician
leadership at each practice for supporting their medical practice
management team by allowing them to attend SAMGMA member-
ship meetings and lunch connections, which typically provide a 1-
hour education program. And in February of each year, SAMGMA
hosts a day-long practice management education conference to
present “hot topics” in medical management.
If you haven’t heard about SAMGMA, please check us out at
www.samgma.org and encourage your medical practice manager to
become a member. Just as the physician’s professional association
is important to them, SAMGMA provides educational and network-
ing opportunities for our members.
If your medical practice manager isn’t getting their information
from SAMGMA, it may be worth asking “where is he/she getting
current information about successes and changes in medical prac-
tice management?”
We do need the help of physician leaders. We have missed many
of our medical practice managers attending our meetings this past
year. Please encourage your medical practice manager to attend all
SAMGMA meetings, and to become active in their association.
Your practice managers need your support to protect your practice!

26 San Antonio Medicine • September 2019