2021 E/M Payment Boost Intact, Academy Reports
An AAFP summary of CMS' proposed 2021 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule confirms that the increase in payment to family physicians announced last year is still set to begin in 2021.
https://www.aafp.org/news/government-medicine/20200827mpfs.html
2021 Member Panel Set Up
...Get to Know Family Medicine: Conversation with AAFP Members Julie Wood, MD, MPH, FAAFP, AAFP Senior Vice President for Research, Science, and Health of the Public American Academy of Family Physicians January 27, 2021 Membership continues to grow in all categories 0 20,000...
About AAFP
https://www.aafp.org/dam/AAFP/documents/about_us/strategic_partnerships/corporate_roundtable/crt-member-panel-setup.pdf
2021 VIRTUAL NC Exhibitor Agreement Terms and Conditions
...American Academy of Family Physicians National Conference of Family Medicine Residents and Medical Students AAFP National Conference Virtual Exhibitor Agreement Terms and Conditions Americans with Disabilities Act Attorneys’ Fees Booth Space - Virtual Acceptance of...
Events
https://www.aafp.org/dam/AAFP/documents/events/nc/nc21-exhibitor-terms-agreement.pdf
2162.pdf
...T argeted use of hepatitis A vaccines in the United States since 1995 has led to a dramatic decrease in the number of reported cases of hepatitis A, from 32,000 in 1990 to 7,700 in 2003,1 with most of the decrease occurring in children.2 As a result of this trend and new...
American Family Physician
https://www.aafp.org/afp/2006/0615/afp20060615p2162.pdf
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...of Adults with Mental Retardation CHRISTOPHER D. PRATER, M.D., and ROBERT G. ZYLSTRA, ED.D., L.C.S.W. University of Tennessee College of Medicine, Chattanooga Unit, Chattanooga, Tennessee A pproximately 1 percent of the gen- eral population has mental retar- dation.1 The U.S....
American Family Physician
https://www.aafp.org/afp/2006/0615/afp20060615p2175.pdf
2187.pdf
...Metropolitan Group Hospitals, Chicago, Illinois PETER P. LOPEZ, M.D., DeWitt Daughtry Family Department of Surgery, Miller School of Medicine at the University of Miami, Miami, Florida E pithelial tumors of the esophagus (i.e., squamous cell and adenocar- cinoma) are responsible...
American Family Physician
https://www.aafp.org/afp/2006/0615/afp20060615p2187.pdf
2195.pdf
...2196 American Family Physician www.aafp.org/afp Volume 73, Number 12 June 15, 2006 Hip Fracture fatal PE is 1.4 to 7.5 percent.6 The effectiveness of several drug treatments (e.g., heparinoids, fondaparinux [Arix- tra], warfarin [Coumadin], antiplatelet agents) for the...
American Family Physician
https://www.aafp.org/afp/2006/0615/afp20060615p2195.pdf
21st Century Medicine, 20th Century People -- FPM
Apr 1, 2015 - Sometimes technology isn't the problem.
Family Practice Management : The Last Word
https://www.aafp.org/fpm/2015/0300/p40.html
28sixt.pdf
...my husband and I moved from the coast of Virginia to a small town in North Carolina to hang out our shingle and dive into the business of medicine. We selected a growing, rural town that was close to urban areas but still deeply underserved by physicians. Within a month, both of us...
Family Practice Management
https://www.aafp.org/fpm/2007/0200/fpm20070200p28.pdf
33 hill newpatient.qxd
...applies only to the categories of evaluation and management (E/M) services titled Office or Other Outpatient Services and Preventive Medicine Services, but as a family physician, most of the codes you sub- mit fall into these categories, and the defini- tion is hard to incorporate...
Family Practice Management
https://www.aafp.org/fpm/2003/0900/fpm20030900p33.pdf
342.pdf
...for Musculoskeletal Conditions JOCELYN R. GRAVLEE, M.D., University of Florida College of Medicine, Gainesville, Florida DANIEL J. VAN DURME, M.D., Florida State University College of Medicine, Tallahassee, Florida F amily physicians often must make decisions regarding the use of...
American Family Physician
https://www.aafp.org/afp/2007/0201/afp20070201p342.pdf
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...JENNIFER LEISER, MD, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, Utah S erious mental illness (i.e., schizo- phrenia, nonaffective psychotic dis- orders, bipolar spectrum disorders, substance dependence, and suicidal- ity) affects 6 percent of adults in the United...
American Family Physician
https://www.aafp.org/afp/2008/0801/afp20080801p355.pdf
361.pdf
...Amblyopia NIPA R. DOSHI, M.D., and MARIA LOURDES F. RODRIGUEZ, M.D. Drexel University College of Medicine, Warminster, Pennsylvania A mblyopia, often called lazy eye, is a decrease in visual acuity resulting from abnormal visual development in infancy and early childhood. The...
American Family Physician
https://www.aafp.org/afp/2007/0201/afp20070201p361.pdf
41simp.pdf
...In any given week, four out of five U.S. adults will use prescription medicines, over-the-counter drugs, or dietary and herbal supplements. Nearly one-third of adults take five or more different medications.1 Given the volume of medications being taken, medication-related injuries...
Family Practice Management
https://www.aafp.org/fpm/2007/0200/fpm20070200p41.pdf
47 roberts.qxd
...factor in rising medical liability premiums appears to be the size of the awards, rather than the frequency of lawsuits. In Wisconsin, the number of claims filed actually decreased from 348 in 1990 to 249 in 2001.2 In 1995, the national median for jury awards was $500,000 and the...
Family Practice Management
https://www.aafp.org/fpm/2002/1000/fpm20021000p47.pdf
501.pdf
...502 American Family Physician www.aafp.org/afp Volume 75, Number 4 February 15, 2007 Oral Lesions SORT: KEY RECOMMENDATIONS FOR PRACTICE Clinical recommendation Evidence rating References When treating recurrent herpes labialis with systemic antivirals such as acyclovir...
American Family Physician
https://www.aafp.org/afp/2007/0215/afp20070215p501.pdf
515.pdf
...conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Pre- vention showed that, in 1991, two thirds of three-year-olds had taken cough or cold medicine in the preceding 30 days.4 Because colds are common presentations in physi- cian offices, and cough and cold remedies are used almost...
American Family Physician
https://www.aafp.org/afp/2007/0215/afp20070215p515.pdf
6 Easy Steps to Low-Cost Electronic Medical Record -- Family Practice Management
...of California-Davis Medical Group in Sacramento. Dr. Jerant is an assistant professor of clinical family medicine in the Department of Family and Community Medicine, UC-Davis. The EMR system described in this article was developed by Dr. Jue, based partly on ideas developed by John...
Family Practice Management
https://www.aafp.org/fpm/2001/0500/fpm20010500p33.pdf
60-Second Survey Gives Insight Into Unmet Social Needs
Researchers found that a brief survey administered to patients helped identify obstacles to maintaining good health.
https://www.aafp.org/news/practice-professional-issues/20190612minutesurvey.html
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...February 15, 2006 Volume 73, Number 4 www.aafp.org/afp American Family Physician 637 Chronic Plaque Psoriasis psoriasis from other conditions with similar appearances such as lichen simplex chroni- cus, nummular eczema, seborrheic dermati- tis, and tinea corporis. PLAQUES...
American Family Physician
https://www.aafp.org/afp/2006/0215/afp20060215p636.pdf
647.pdf
...and Treatment ABI V. RAYNER, M.D., M.P.H., JAMES G. O’BRIEN, M.D., and BEN SCHOENBACHLER, M.D. University of Louisville School of Medicine, Louisville, Kentucky V irtually all patients with dementia will develop changes in behav- ior and personality as the disease progresses.1...
American Family Physician
https://www.aafp.org/afp/2006/0215/afp20060215p647.pdf
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...cates approximately 3 percent of pregnancies and leads to one third of preterm births.1 It increases the risk of prematurity and leads to a number of other perinatal and neonatal complications, including a 1 to 2 percent risk of fetal death.2 Physicians caring for pregnant patients...
American Family Physician
https://www.aafp.org/afp/2006/0215/afp20060215p659.pdf
669.pdf
...Pulmonary Disease: Diagnostic Considerations MARVIN DEWAR, M.D., J.D., and R. WHIT CURRY, JR., M.D. University of Florida College of Medicine, Gainesville, Florida T he global burden of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is increasing; the disease is projected to be the...
American Family Physician
https://www.aafp.org/afp/2006/0215/afp20060215p669.pdf
71h.pdf
...Diabetic Foot Infection MAZEN S. BADER, MD, MPH, Memorial University of Newfoundland School of Medicine, St. John’s, Newfoundland, Canada I n patients with diabetes, any foot infec- tion is potentially serious. Diabetic foot infections range in severity from superficial paronychia to...
American Family Physician
https://www.aafp.org/afp/2008/0701/afp20080701p71.pdf
87h.pdf
...88 American Family Physician www.aafp.org/afp Volume 78, Number 1 July 1, 2008 However, other risk factors are responsible for an increasing number of COPD cases.8 These risk factors include advancing age, secondhand smoke exposure, chronic exposure to environmental or...
American Family Physician
https://www.aafp.org/afp/2008/0701/afp20080701p87.pdf