Case Study: Alyeska Family Medicine achieves rapid ROI and major cost savings with CompuGroup Medical's CGM eMDs

CGM eMDs Boosts Revenues, Cuts Costs for Alaska Practice

Alyeska Family Medicine, a private practice in Anchorage led by Dr. Mario Lanza, faced the familiar burdens of paper charts: lost records, time-consuming chart pulls, and limited ability to track preventive and chronic care. Wanting an EHR that fit his workflow rather than changing it, Dr. Lanza searched for a system that would improve quality of care and operational efficiency while preparing the practice for anticipated regulatory requirements.

Dr. Lanza chose CGM eMDs for its intuitive EHR and integrated practice management, implemented it with focused training and rapid data entry, and connected it to LabCorp and pharmacy interfaces. The result: substantially faster documentation (about two hours saved per day), improved coding and first-pass claims, a 15–20% increase in charges for comparable patients, and roughly $100,000 a year in labor savings (including $55,000 from trimming billing staff and ~$50,000 from reducing medical assistant FTEs). The practice recovered its initial investment within two years and now operates with three FTEs per physician versus the 4.5 MGMA average.

Alyeska Family Medicine

Mario Lanza

Alyeska Family Medicine