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September / October 2026

Articles

CME

Implementing Advanced Primary Care Management: A Practical Guide

THOMAS J. WEIDA, JANE A. WEIDA

Primary care practices now have a simpler way to get paid for time spent managing patients' care between visits, including behavioral health care.

CME

Easing Prior Authorization for GLP-1s

ADRIENNE PARAD, SARITA SUBRAMANIAM

The right documentation can streamline approvals and help patients access these often life-changing medications.

CME

Harvesting Health: How to Build a Clinic-Based Community Garden

STEPHANIE LITZENBERGER, DANNI HIX, JONATHON FINLEY, MARK SHAFFER

A clinic-based garden can help feed your community in more ways than one. Here's how to build and sustain it.

CME

An “EASIER” Framework for Evaluating AI Tools

KEVIN KINDLER, OLGA KRAVCHENKO, STACY BARTLETT, STEPHANIE BALLARD

Deciding which AI tools to implement, and which to avoid, just got EASIER.

CME

Coding & Documentation

CINDY HUGHES

Cut vs. copy and paste in the EHR | Online digital assessment and management | Medicare coverage of tetanus vaccines | Alcohol misuse screening and counseling

Opinion

The Power of Primary Care to Improve Health

SUMI M. SEXTON, SARINA SCHRAGER, DEAN A. SEEHUSEN, CHRISTOPHER P. MORLEY, CAROLINE RICHARDSON, JON NEHER, JAMES DOMDERA

Given the known benefits of primary care, health organizations and policymakers should refocus resources to the services that will serve patients best.

From the Editor

FREE

AI and the 4 p.m. Slump

JAMES DOMDERA

Leveraging AI to reduce low-value tasks can create decision-making capacity.

Practice Pearls

Practice Pearls

Use APSO vs. SOAP to improve ehr notes | Look for simple, lowcost ways to recognize physicians | Quantify in-basket workload to create shared accountability

The Last Word

FREE

Rethinking Parental Leave in Medicine

NATASHA LEWRY BEAUVAIS

What if we handled parental leave requests with the generosity we wish we had been given?

Resources

CME Quiz (AAFP members and print subscribers only)

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