Articles
Assembling Your AI Toolkit in Family Medicine
This curated list of AI tools that save time and support evidence-based decisions offers a solid starting point for building your own AI toolkit.
Tips for Easing Prior Authorization for Sleep Studies
With sleep apnea on the rise, more patients can benefit from sleep studies, and properly trained office staff can help minimize the risk of denials.
Better Together: What Physicians and Administrators Need From Each Other
To create thriving practices and organizations, we must resist the “us vs. them” narrative and pursue real collaboration. Here's what that looks like.
How to Make Your Office More Efficient and Effective: Three Areas for Workflow Improvement
These strategies can decrease the amount of time lost to message management, EHR notes, and patient scheduling issues.
From the Editor
Improving Access to Primary Care: Most "Solutions" Get It Wrong
Health systems are desperate for a solution, so let's remind them of a proven one — us.
Opinion
Why Family Physicians Are Still Needed in the Emergency Department
Problematic policies that increasingly exclude family physicians from emergency departments are contributing to shortages in rural areas and, ironically, accelerating the use of NPs and PAs in these settings.
Coding & Documentation
CODING & DOCUMENTATION
Billing for multidisciplinary meeting time | Cardiovascular disease risk management with tobacco cessation counseling | Consulting a subspecialist via EHR | Psychological testing with E/M for post-concussion symptoms
Practice Pearls
PRACTICE PEARLS
Allocate holiday time off fairly | Have a morning huddle | Don't rely solely on self-reporting when diagnosing adult ADHD
The Last Word
You Deserve Kindness Too: Self-Compassion for Physicians
What if we treated ourselves with the same compassion we extend to others?
Funded Educational Content
The AAFP Advocates Against Payer Downcoding Policies and For Improved Primary Care Payment
The AAFP strongly opposes downcoding policies that automatically lower E/M codes based solely on diagnosis, arguing that they ignore CPT guidelines and undervalue the complexity of family medicine.