History - 1964

Groups - 23
Individuals - 23

Two new Minnesota clinics were founded in 1964 -- Family Physicians, P.A. of Burnsville, and Faribault Clinic, Faribault.

Many remember the great meeting held about computers in Virginia, Minn.  We believe Al Farley (deceased) was Chairman.  And we believe it was in 1964.  The conference was held in the Skyview Motel in Virginia.

Minnesota membership in MGMA increased to 23 with Betty Brummett of the Earl Clinic dropping out as well as Herbert Shrier of the Mesaba Clinic.  Robert Newell picked up his membership again in this year.  William Costello of the Nicollet Clinic enrolled as did Alphonse J. Vonderhaar of the Lenont-Peterson Group in Virginia.

The 38th Annual Conference of MGMA was held on October 18-21, 1964, at the Roosevelt Hotel in New Orleans with President Edgar J. Saux, FACCM, presiding.  Again, a new record attendance was established. 

Association developments during the year included:

• January 2, 1964 -- MGMA opened a new office in the Metropolitan Building in downtown Denver;
  
• MGMA was represented by an association attorney at the IRS hearings on professional corporations in Washington;
  
• A new group practice exhibit was developed jointly with AMA and AAMC;
  
• The new association was incorporated (nonprofit) in Colorado; and
  
• A long-range Planning Committee chaired by Dudley P. Towne, produced a tentative statement of "primary purpose of MGMA" during the fall of 1964.
  
  

Judson C. Green from Illinois was the President of the Midwest Section and W. Burdell Baker of Wichita, Kan., was the President of ACCM.

Luther Boie planned and chaired the outstanding Midwest Section Institute on data processing at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester in 1964.