What is Alta Bates Medical Group (ABMG)?
Alta Bates Medical Group is an Independent Practice Association (IPA). An IPA is an organization of independent physicians that have joined together to contract with HMOs and other health care companies for the provision of professional medical services. Physicians belonging to an IPA usually have their own offices, separate from other physicians in the IPA. ABMG was formed in 1983 by physicians in the Berkeley area affiliated with Alta Bates Hospital. Today, ABMG has over 200 primary care physicians and 400 specialist physicians in the East Bay and provides services at the Berkeley and Oakland campuses of Alta Bates Summit Medical Center.