...https://www.aafp.org/about/engage/sponsored-resources/autoimmune-testing-in-primary-care-for-rheumatology-referrals.html https://www.aafp.org/about/engage/sponsored-resources/chronic-kidney-disease.html https://www.aafp.org/about/engage/sponsored-res...
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'Moving the Needle' on Student Choice
Michelle Roett, M.D., M.P.H., is working on both local and national initiatives to expand the family medicine pipeline.
https://www.aafp.org/news/family-doc-focus/20181022fdf-roett.html
10 Ways to Keep Your Quality Improvement Team Motivated
...Primary care practices have been tasked with reporting an increasing amount of quality data to satisfy requirements for insurance companies, accountable care organizations (ACOs), patient-centered medical home (PCMH) recognition, and various pay-for-performance programs. As a result, it...
Family Practice Management
https://www.aafp.org/fpm/2018/0900/fpm20180900p23.pdf
10 Ways to Keep Your Quality Improvement Team Motivated -- FPM
Oct 1, 2018 - Assembling a dedicated QI team is only half the challenge. Here's how to build and sustain their momentum.
Family Practice Management : Articles
https://www.aafp.org/fpm/2018/0900/p23.html
18 Glimpses of Tomorrow -- FPM
Sep 1, 2004 - Introduces Big Ideas issue, suggesting that most of the ideas featured have something to do with the FFM new practice model and that the authors may actually share a vision of the future of family medicine.
Family Practice Management : Opinion
https://www.aafp.org/fpm/2004/0900/p13.html
19HealthPublicScienceReferenceCommitteeReport.pdf
...17 18 ITEM NO. 2: RESOLUTION NO. 3002: IMPROVING ACCESS TO CARE FOR HOMEBOUND 19 PATIENTS 20 21 RESOLVED, That the American Academy of Family Physicians recognize the lack of 22 access to care for homebound patients and the role of the family medicine physician in 23 providing...
Events
https://www.aafp.org/dam/AAFP/documents/events/alf_ncsc/business/19HealthPublicScienceReferenceCommitteeReport.pdf
19PracticeEnhancementReferenceCommitteeReport.pdf
...even when family physicians have years of experience. Members further 26 testified of the importance to protect full spectrum primary care. The reference committee 27 acknowledged the positive comments but felt the first resolved clause was beyond the scope of the 28 AAFP. The...
Events
https://www.aafp.org/dam/AAFP/documents/events/alf_ncsc/business/19PracticeEnhancementReferenceCommitteeReport.pdf
2013 Practice Enhancement Report
...Gender Disparities in Family Physician 9 Salaries (pp. 1-2). 10 11 Item 3: Not Adopt Resolution No. 5003 Patient Protection Affordable Care Act (p. 2). 12 13 Item 4: Adopt Substitute Resolution No. 5004 Clarification of Medical Benefits in lieu of 14 Resolution No. 5004 (pp. 3). 15...
Events
https://www.aafp.org/dam/AAFP/documents/events/alf_ncsc/business/2013-pe-report.pdf
2018 Agenda of the Reference Committee on Education
...1. Resolution No. 2001 Addressing the Burden of Indirect Patient Care on Physician Well-Being 2. Resolution No. 2002 Family Medicine Residency Education Involving Nurse Practitioners and Physician Assistants 3. Resolution No. 2003 Maternal Mortality in the United States 4....
Events
https://www.aafp.org/dam/AAFP/documents/events/alf_ncsc/business/18EducationReferenceCommitteeAgenda.pdf
2019 NCCL Summary of Actions
...FamMedPAC review the candidates' voting records to ensure that they align with American Academy of Family Physicians' commitment to Health Care for All, affordable prescription drugs, and gun violence prevention in determining whether or not funds should be allocated for such a...
Events
https://www.aafp.org/dam/AAFP/documents/events/alf_ncsc/2019NCCLSummaryofActions.pdf
2021 NCCL Tackles Telehealth, Coercive Employment Practices
Family physicians from around the country weighed in on a wide range of issues important to family medicine during the 2021 National Conference of Constituency Leaders, including measures that addressed telehealth, restrictive employment practices and the role of family physicians in ...
https://www.aafp.org/news/inside-aafp/20210512nccl-practenhance.html
2021 Practice Enhancement Agenda w Resolutions
...Contracting Practices 5. Resolution No. 5005 The Reality of Telehealth 6. Resolution No. 5006 AAFP Support for Family Physician-Led Primary Care 7. Resolution No. 5007 AAFP Advocate with Society of Hospital Medicine for Family Medicine-Trained Hospitalists and Disparities 8....
Events
https://www.aafp.org/dam/AAFP/documents/events/alf_ncsc/business/practice-enhancement-agenda-resolutions.pdf
2021 Practice Enhancement Reference Committee Report
...in lieu of Resolution No. 19 5005. 20 21 Item 6: Adopt Substitute Resolution No. 5006: AAFP Support for Family Physician-Led Primary 22 Care in lieu of Resolution No. 5006. 23 24 Item 7: Adopt Resolution No. 5007: AAFP Advocate with Society of Hospital Medicine for Family 25...
Events
https://www.aafp.org/dam/AAFP/documents/events/alf_ncsc/business/practice-enhancement-ref-committee-report.pdf
2021-AFP-and-FPM-Media-Kit.pdf
...The Most Trusted Brands in Primary Care Table of Contents About American Family Physician (AFP) ............................. 3-5 AFP Print Advertising Rates ...................................................6-7 AFP Premium Visibility Targeted Programs/ Advertising Discount...
American Family Physician
https://www.aafp.org/dam/AAFP/documents/journals/afp/2021-AFP-and-FPM-Media-Kit.pdf
99213 or 99214? Three Tips for Navigating the Coding Conundrum
...Marting is an attorney practicing with Forbes Law Group in Overland Park, Kan., where she focuses on regulatory compliance and health care reimbursement. Author disclosure: no relevant financial affiliations disclosed. © J IM F R A Z IE R Perhaps one of the most...
Family Practice Management
https://www.aafp.org/fpm/2018/0700/fpm20180700p5.pdf
99213 or 99214? Three Tips for Navigating the Coding Conundrum -- FPM
Aug 1, 2018 - Here’s how to quickly identify whether you’re on the path to a 99214 versus a 99213.
Family Practice Management : Articles
https://www.aafp.org/fpm/2018/0700/p5.html
A Feedback Tool to Improve Physician-Medical Assistant Communication -- FPM
Jun 1, 2014 - Using an evaluation form and face-to-face meetings can help get both sides of the team talking and solving problems.
Family Practice Management : Articles
https://www.aafp.org/fpm/2014/0500/p5.html
A New Approach to Making Your Doctor-Nurse Team More Productive -- FPM
Aug 1, 2008 - With proper training and delegation, your team can see more patients, deliver better care and feel more satisfied at work.
Family Practice Management : Articles
https://www.aafp.org/fpm/2008/0700/p35.html
A Practical Approach to Reducing Patients’ Prescription Costs
...at the University of Rochester Medical Center (URMC), Rochester, N.Y. Dr. Venci is a clinical pharmacy specialist in the URMC Primary Care Network. Mechelle Sanders is a PhD candidate in health services research. Angela Lanigan is research project manager for the American Academy of...
Family Practice Management
https://www.aafp.org/fpm/2019/0500/fpm20190500p5.pdf
A Practical Approach to Screening for Social Determinants of Health
...determinants of health) create access, adherence, or performance barriers, often impeding their efforts to provide evidence-based clinical care that improves overall health.3,4 For example, a patient who lacks safe housing, reliable transportation, or adequate food resources may...
Family Practice Management
https://www.aafp.org/fpm/2018/0500/fpm20180500p7.pdf
A Practical Approach to Screening for Social Determinants of Health -- FPM
Jun 1, 2018 - Screening patients to understand their social context is the gateway to addressing barriers and improving health.
Family Practice Management : Articles
https://www.aafp.org/fpm/2018/0500/p7.html
A Practical Guide to Emergency Preparedness for Office-Based Family Physicians -- FPM
Apr 1, 2013 - Medical emergencies may not be common in the office setting, but that's precisely why you need to practice your response to them.
Family Practice Management : Articles
https://www.aafp.org/fpm/2013/0300/p13.html
A Team Approach to Quality Improvement -- FPM
Apr 1, 1999 - To realize change, rely on the knowledge and experience of a team such as the authors', which improved the care of patients with diabetes.
Family Practice Management : Articles
https://www.aafp.org/fpm/1999/0400/p25.html
A Team-Based Care Model that Improves Job Satisfaction
...A Team-Based Care Model That Improves Job Satisfaction Expanding the role of medical assistants to better support providers can improve not only traditional outcomes but also job satisfaction. ABOUT THE AUTHORS Dr. Lyon is an associate professor and medical director of the AF...
Family Practice Management
https://www.aafp.org/fpm/2018/0300/fpm20180300p6.pdf
A Team-Based Care Model That Improves Job Satisfaction -- FPM
Apr 1, 2018 - Expanding the role of medical assistants to better support providers can improve not only traditional outcomes but also job satisfaction.
Family Practice Management : Articles
https://www.aafp.org/fpm/2018/0300/p6.html
A Team-Building Model for Team-Based Care -- FPM
Dec 1, 2012 - Focusing on their strengths and borrowing concepts from family therapy helped bring this family medicine group together in pursuit of a common goal.
Family Practice Management : Articles
https://www.aafp.org/fpm/2012/1100/p19.html
A Toolkit for Clinicians Rounding in Long-Term Care Facilities -- FPM
Dec 1, 2012 - A lack of appropriate bedside equipment can impede thorough clinical evaluations, but this can be easily remedied.
Family Practice Management : Articles
https://www.aafp.org/fpm/2012/1100/p14.html
AAFP Advises White House on Building Robust Workforce
In a recent letter, the AAFP offered the Biden administration recommendations on strengthening the primary care workforce.
https://www.aafp.org/news/government-medicine/20210205workforce.html
AAFP Backgrounder - Scope of Practice: Nurse Practitioners
Background information on nurse practitioner scope from the AAFP.
Advocacy
https://www.aafp.org/dam/AAFP/documents/advocacy/workforce/scope/BKG-Scope-NursePractitioners.pdf
AAFP Backgrounder - Scope of Practice: Pharmacists
...role pharmacists play in the delivery of high- quality health care. The pharmacy professional and physician should work collaboratively to optimize the therapeutic effect of pharmaceutical agents in patient care through the use of collaborative practice agreements (CPAs) between...
Advocacy
https://www.aafp.org/dam/AAFP/documents/advocacy/workforce/scope/BKG-Scope-Pharmacists.pdf
AAFP Backgrounder - Scope of Practice: Physician Assistants
...health professionals to work together as clinically integrated teams in the best interest of patients. Patients are best served by a health care team led by a physician. Education and Training There are significant differences in the educational and training requirements between...
Advocacy
https://www.aafp.org/dam/AAFP/documents/advocacy/workforce/scope/BKG-Scope-PhysicianAssistants.pdf
AAFP CME on Physician Well-being
View all AAFP Continuing Medical Education on physician well-being and earn CME credit.
https://www.aafp.org/cme/topic/physician-well-being.html
AAFP Comment Letter on 2019 Final Medicare Physician Fee Schedule - December 28, 2018
...that CMS has shown a strong commitment to supporting primary care in recent years-and we look forward to working with CMS to share our data, member experiences, and analyses to ensure appropriate valuation of primary care services over the next two years. At the same time, we look...
Advocacy
https://www.aafp.org/dam/AAFP/documents/advocacy/coverage/medicare/LT-CMS-2019FinalMPFS-122818.pdf
AAFP Comments on 2021 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule - September 28, 2020
...program for all beneficiaries-and in improving access to high-quality, comprehensive, and coordinated care. We deeply appreciate your efforts to support family medicine and primary care. We look forward to working with CMS on designing and implementing policies that support these...
Advocacy
https://www.aafp.org/dam/AAFP/documents/advocacy/payment/medicare/feesched/LT-CMS-Response2021MPFSProposedRule-092820.pdf
AAFP Comments to CMS on the 2018 Inpatient Proposed Rule
...solely to primary care. Family physicians conduct approximately one in five office visits. This represents more than 192 million visits annually, which is 48 percent greater than the next most visited medical specialty. Today, family physicians provide more care for America’s...
Advocacy
https://www.aafp.org/dam/AAFP/documents/advocacy/legal/administrative/LT-CMS-IPPSProposedRule-060817.pdf
AAFP Comments to DEA on MAT Interim Final Rule - December 23, 2020
AAFP comments on the DEA Medication-Assisted treatment interim final rule.
Advocacy
https://www.aafp.org/dam/AAFP/documents/advocacy/prevention/risk/LT-DEA-MATFinalRule-122320.pdf
AAFP Continues Telehealth Push With Senate Testimony
As senators consider how to solidify telehealth policy flexibilities beyond the pandemic, a family physician advised them on action to ensure that virtual care improves comprehensive, continuous primary care.
https://www.aafp.org/news/government-medicine/20210526telehealthsenate.html
AAFP Delivers Strong Advice to Reduce Maternal Morbidity
The AAFP recently sent a detailed response to a Senate Finance Committee request for information on how to improve the nation's maternal morbidity and mortality rates.
https://www.aafp.org/news/government-medicine/20200420maternalrfi.html
AAFP Executive Summary of Alternative Payment Models - March 14, 2017
...Advanced Primary Care: A Foundational Alternative Payment Model (APM) for Delivering Patient-Centered, Longitudinal, and Coordinated Care MACRAready The Shift to Value-Based Payment January 2017 The U.S. health care system is undergoing an intense period of transformation...
Advocacy
https://www.aafp.org/dam/AAFP/documents/advocacy/payment/apms/ES-AdvancedPrimaryCare-121316.pdf
AAFP Gives Proposed Transparency Rules Cautious Thumbs-up
Regulations on transparency of prices and cost-sharing and rules on medical loss ratios must focus on patients, the AAFP said in response to a CMS proposed rule on value-based payment models.
https://www.aafp.org/news/government-medicine/20200211hhstransparency.html
AAFP Guides Agencies Away From Alternative Payment Roadblocks
In letters to CMS and HHS' Office of the Inspector General, the Academy counseled regulators to make sure self-referral rules do not hinder practice transformation through new payment models.
https://www.aafp.org/news/government-medicine/20200109selfreferralltrs.html
AAFP Hosts Launch of 25 x 2030 Student Choice Collaborative
A new initiative will work to ensure that by 2030, 25 percent of U.S. medical school seniors will select family medicine as their specialty.
https://www.aafp.org/news/education-professional-development/20180905twentyfiveby2030.html
AAFP Letter for the Senate Finance Committee RFI on Maternal Health - April 3, 2020
...United States Currently, the United States’ maternal mortality rate (MMR) is alarmingly high and reveals existing faults within the health care system. During a time when maternal outcomes were improving for women in most developed countries, the U.S. MMR is worsening. In fact, the...
Advocacy
https://www.aafp.org/dam/AAFP/documents/advocacy/prevention/women/LT-SenateFinance-MaternalHealth-040320.pdf
AAFP Letter in Response to CMS on Physician Self-Referral Regulations - December 27, 2019
...and efficient care. As we have previously stated, and literature supports, achieving meaningful transformation of our health care system starts with creating such a system based in foundational primary care - and one which supports an increased investment in primary care to sustain...
Advocacy
https://www.aafp.org/dam/AAFP/documents/advocacy/payment/apms/LT-CMS-PhysicianSelfReferralRegulations-122719.pdf
AAFP letter on the Reauthorizing and Extending America’s Community Health (REACH) Act ...
...physicians and medical students across the country, I write to express our appreciation for action to reauthorize several expiring primary care programs within the Reauthorizing and Extending America’s Community Health (REACH) Act of 2019 (HR 2328). The bill extends the Teaching...
Advocacy
https://www.aafp.org/dam/AAFP/documents/advocacy/workforce/gme/LT-E&C-PrimaryCareExtensionsREACH-071719.pdf
AAFP Letter Responsing to CMS RFI on Direct Provider Contracting - May 25, 2018
...strengthening primary care for beneficiaries and bringing greater value to beneficiaries and the healthcare system. Following passage of the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015 (MACRA), the AAFP began designing a multi-payer, advanced primary care alternative...
Advocacy
https://www.aafp.org/dam/AAFP/documents/advocacy/payment/apms/LT-CMS-DirectProviderContracting-052518.pdf
AAFP Letter to CMS and ONC with Administrative Simplification Requests - February 7, 2018
...subsequent February 22, 2018, meeting on this important subject. The AAFP maintains that the current regulatory framework with which primary care physicians must comply is daunting and often demoralizing. Standardization is not required among public or private payers, and many...
Advocacy
https://www.aafp.org/dam/AAFP/documents/advocacy/legal/administrative/LT-CMS-ONC-AdminSimplification-020718.pdf
AAFP Letter to CMS in Response to MyHealthEData Initiative - March 14, 2018
...that data security is of the utmost importance. To achieve improved, secure patient access, actual interoperability of electronic health care records is first required, something practicing physicians were promised when they purchased and updated their systems to Certified...
Advocacy
https://www.aafp.org/dam/AAFP/documents/advocacy/legal/administrative/LT-CMS-MyHealthEData-031418.pdf
AAFP Letter to CMS on E/M Documentation Requirements - April 23, 2018
...Services. The AAFP wholeheartedly maintains that the CMS E/M documentation guidelines, established 20 years ago, do little to support patient care or improve quality. They are most commonly used to justify billing levels (e.g. level 3, 4, or 5) rather than help physicians diagnose,...
Advocacy
https://www.aafp.org/dam/AAFP/documents/advocacy/payment/medicare/LT-CMS-EMSuggestions-042318.pdf
AAFP Letter to CMS on Section 5 of EO #13890 Regarding Supervision Requirements of ...
...health care professionals on standardized training criteria and demonstrated experience and competence in patient care. Furthermore, we believe that state governments and their medical boards are better positioned to make these determinations and administer oversight of health care...
Advocacy
https://www.aafp.org/dam/AAFP/documents/advocacy/workforce/scope/LT-CMS-SupervisionReqsNonPhysicians-011420.pdf
AAFP Letter to CMS on the 2018 Quality Payment Program Final Rule with Comment Period -...
...the bipartisan Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act (MACRA). We offer the following recommendations to continue to strengthen primary care for Medicare beneficiaries, to enable more physicians to participate in Advanced Alternative Payment Models (AAPMs), and to further...
Advocacy
https://www.aafp.org/dam/AAFP/documents/advocacy/payment/medicare/LT-CMS-2018FinalQPP-121917.pdf
AAFP Letter to CMS on the RFI Regarding the Physician Self-referral Law - August 22, 2018
...other physicians and health care professionals to provide team-based, patient-centered care that incorporates new technologies and focuses on reducing the total cost of care. Overall, CMS must make available clear safe harbors for advanced primary-care models, covering operational...
Advocacy
https://www.aafp.org/dam/AAFP/documents/advocacy/payment/apms/LT-CMS-PhysSelfRef-082218.pdf
AAFP Letter to CMS Requesting Codes to be Added to the "Primary Care Exemption" List - ...
...and Medicaid Services Department of Health and Human Services 200 Independence Avenue, SW Washington, DC 20201 Re: Expanding the primary care exception code list Dear Administrator Verma: On behalf of the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP), which represents 134,600 family...
Advocacy
https://www.aafp.org/dam/AAFP/documents/advocacy/payment/medicare/LT-CMS-PrimaryCareExemption-100919.pdf
AAFP Letter to FMCSA on Diabetic Commercial Drivers - Oxtober 19, 2016
...applicants to be examined by their primary care physician rather than require examination by an endocrinologist. Accordingly, the AAFP applauds the FMCSA, and we fully support the Medical Review Board’s recommendation to allow primary care physicians to complete forms needed by...
Advocacy
https://www.aafp.org/dam/AAFP/documents/advocacy/prevention/obesity/LT-FMCSA-DiabeticDrivers-101916.pdf
AAFP Letter to HHS on Proposed Medicaid and CHIP Managed Care Rule - July 15, 2015
AAFP response to CMS on the Medicaid Managed Care and Children’s Health Insurance Program Programs proposed rule
Advocacy
https://www.aafp.org/dam/AAFP/documents/advocacy/coverage/chip/LT-CMS-MedicaidCHIP-071515.pdf
AAFP Letter to the President on the "Protecting and Improving Medicare for Our Nation's...
...Our Nation’s Seniors - that you issued on October 3, 2019. The AAFP appreciates the Administration’s continued efforts to improve our health care system and we look forward to working with White House staff and the Secretary of Health and Human Services on many of the proposed...
Advocacy
https://www.aafp.org/dam/AAFP/documents/advocacy/workforce/scope/LT-POTUS-ProtectingImprovingMedicareSeniors-101119.pdf
AAFP Letter to TN House Health Committee on Doctor of Medical Science Legislation - ...
...degree, to practice primary care with limited physician supervision. The AAFP strongly opposes this unprecedented proposal to create a new provider designation, offered by a single academic institution, that would undermine physician-led team-based care models as well as jeopardize...
Advocacy
https://www.aafp.org/dam/AAFP/documents/advocacy/workforce/scope/LT-TNLeg-DoctorMedScienceDegree-031318.pdf
AAFP Names 2019–2020 Board of Directors
AAFP Names 2019–2020 Board of Directors
https://www.aafp.org/news/media-center/more-releases/aafp-names-2019-2020-board-of-directors.html
AAFP News - Apr 1, 2010 - American Family Physician
Apr 1, 2010 - Selected policy and health issues news briefs from AAFP News Now.
American Family Physician : AAFP News: AFP Edition
https://www.aafp.org/afp/2010/0401/p823.html
AAFP News - Apr 1, 2012 - American Family Physician
Apr 1, 2012 - Selected policy and health issues news briefs from AAFP News Now.
American Family Physician : AAFP News: AFP Edition
https://www.aafp.org/afp/2012/0401/p675.html
AAFP News - Apr 15, 2016 - American Family Physician
Apr 15, 2016 - Selected policy and health issues news briefs from AAFP News.
American Family Physician : AAFP News: AFP Edition
https://www.aafp.org/afp/2016/0415/p640.html
AAFP News - Dec 15, 2010 - American Family Physician
Dec 15, 2010 - Selected policy and health issues news briefs from AAFP News Now.
American Family Physician : AAFP News: AFP Edition
https://www.aafp.org/afp/2010/1215/p1437.html
AAFP News - Feb 1, 2017 - American Family Physician
Feb 1, 2017 - Selected policy and health issues news briefs from AAFP News.
American Family Physician : AAFP News: AFP Edition
https://www.aafp.org/afp/2017/0201/p143.html
AAFP News - Feb 15, 2008 - American Family Physician
Feb 15, 2008 - Selected policy and health issues news briefs from AAFP News Now.
American Family Physician : AAFP News: AFP Edition
https://www.aafp.org/afp/2008/0215/p423.html
AAFP News - Feb 15, 2018 - American Family Physician
Feb 15, 2018 - Selected policy and health issues news briefs from AAFP News.
American Family Physician : AAFP News: AFP Edition
https://www.aafp.org/afp/2018/0215/p232.html
AAFP News - Jan 15, 2011 - American Family Physician
Jan 15, 2011 - Selected policy and health issues news briefs from AAFP News Now.
American Family Physician : AAFP News: AFP Edition
https://www.aafp.org/afp/2011/0115/p113.html
AAFP News - Jan 15, 2014 - American Family Physician
Jan 15, 2014 - Selected policy and health issues news briefs from AAFP News Now.
American Family Physician : AAFP News: AFP Edition
https://www.aafp.org/afp/2014/0115/p114.html
AAFP News - Jul 1, 2011 - American Family Physician
Jul 1, 2011 - Selected policy and health issues news briefs from AAFP News Now.
American Family Physician : AAFP News: AFP Edition
https://www.aafp.org/afp/2011/0701/p13.html
AAFP News - Jul 15, 2013 - American Family Physician
Jul 15, 2013 - Selected policy and health issues news briefs from AAFP News Now.
American Family Physician : AAFP News: AFP Edition
https://www.aafp.org/afp/2013/0715/p83.html
AAFP News - Jul 15, 2017 - American Family Physician
Jul 15, 2017 - Selected policy and health issues news briefs from AAFP News.
American Family Physician : AAFP News: AFP Edition
https://www.aafp.org/afp/2017/0715/p80.html
AAFP News - Jun 1, 2008 - American Family Physician
Jun 1, 2008 - Selected policy and health issues news briefs from AAFP News Now.
American Family Physician : AAFP News: AFP Edition
https://www.aafp.org/afp/2008/0601/p1499.html
AAFP News - Jun 1, 2009 - American Family Physician
Jun 1, 2009 - Selected policy and health issues news briefs from AAFP News Now.
American Family Physician : AAFP News: AFP Edition
https://www.aafp.org/afp/2009/0601/p931.html
AAFP News - Jun 1, 2015 - American Family Physician
Jun 1, 2015 - Selected policy and health issues news briefs from AAFP News.
American Family Physician : AAFP News: AFP Edition
https://www.aafp.org/afp/2015/0601/p752.html
AAFP News - Jun 15, 2014 - American Family Physician
Jun 15, 2014 - Selected policy and health issues news briefs from AAFP News.
American Family Physician : AAFP News: AFP Edition
https://www.aafp.org/afp/2014/0615/p936.html
AAFP News - Mar 1, 2009 - American Family Physician
Mar 1, 2009 - Selected policy and health issues news briefs from AAFP News Now.
American Family Physician : AAFP News: AFP Edition
https://www.aafp.org/afp/2009/0301/p377.html
AAFP News - Mar 15, 2012 - American Family Physician
Mar 15, 2012 - Selected policy and health issues news briefs from AAFP News Now.
American Family Physician : AAFP News: AFP Edition
https://www.aafp.org/afp/2012/0315/p553.html
AAFP News - Mar 15, 2013 - American Family Physician
Mar 15, 2013 - Selected policy and health issues news briefs from AAFP News Now.
American Family Physician : AAFP News: AFP Edition
https://www.aafp.org/afp/2013/0315/p400.html
AAFP News - Mar 15, 2016 - American Family Physician
Mar 15, 2016 - ...of acquiring physician practices are pushing for the date to be extended. Patients should not be burdened with higher costs for similar care because a hospital acquired their physician's practice on Nov. 1 instead of Nov. 2, the letter states. For more information, go to...
American Family Physician : AAFP News: AFP Edition
https://www.aafp.org/afp/2016/0315/p434.html
AAFP News - Mar 15, 2018 - American Family Physician
Mar 15, 2018 - Selected policy and health issues news briefs from AAFP News.
American Family Physician : AAFP News: AFP Edition
https://www.aafp.org/afp/2018/0315/p368.html
AAFP News - May 1, 2018 - American Family Physician
May 1, 2018 - Selected policy and health issues news briefs from AAFP News.
American Family Physician : AAFP News: AFP Edition
https://www.aafp.org/afp/2018/0501/p558.html
AAFP News - May 15, 2016 - American Family Physician
May 15, 2016 - Selected policy and health issues news briefs from AAFP News.
American Family Physician : AAFP News: AFP Edition
https://www.aafp.org/afp/2016/0515/p820.html
AAFP News - Nov 1, 2013 - American Family Physician
Nov 1, 2013 - Selected policy and health issues news briefs from AAFP News Now.
American Family Physician : AAFP News: AFP Edition
https://www.aafp.org/afp/2013/1101/p568.html
AAFP News - Oct 1, 2017 - American Family Physician
Oct 1, 2017 - Selected policy and health issues news briefs from AAFP News.
American Family Physician : AAFP News: AFP Edition
https://www.aafp.org/afp/2017/1001/p421.html
AAFP News Now
...physician-led, team-based care within the VA system. Furthermore, local facilities would be prohib- ited from providing physician-led, team-based care. The organizations acknowledged the nation’s shortage of physicians and nurses amid a growing demand for primary care, but pointed...
American Family Physician
https://www.aafp.org/afp/2014/0115/afp20140115p114.pdf
AAFP News: AFP Edition
...demand, according to researchers at the Robert Graham Center for Policy Studies in Fam- ily Medicine and Primary Care. They have estimated the shortage of primary care physicians will reach 33,000 by 2035. U.S. seniors accounted for 1,481 (48%) of the fam- ily medicine positions...
American Family Physician
https://www.aafp.org/afp/2016/0415/afp20160415p640.pdf
AAFP News: AFP Edition
...learning activity type. Blended CME offers a hybrid of current educational activities: live, enduring materials, medical journals, point-of-care, and perfor- mance improvement. The blended learning activity type was piloted for six months by a handful of AAFP mem- ber physicians,...
American Family Physician
https://www.aafp.org/afp/2017/1001/afp20171001p421.pdf
AAFP News: AFP Edition
...of acquiring physi- cian practices are pushing for the date to be extended. Patients should not be burdened with higher costs for similar care because a hospital acquired their physician’s practice on Nov. 1 instead of Nov. 2, the letter states. For more information, go to...
American Family Physician
https://www.aafp.org/afp/2016/0315/afp20160315p434.pdf
AAFP News: AFP Edition
...advanced practice registered nurses (APRNs) in VA facilities independent practice authority, saying it will undermine the quality of health care received by veterans. The AAFP understands the VA’s concerns about long wait times for veterans, said AAFP President John Meigs, MD....
American Family Physician
https://www.aafp.org/afp/2017/0201/afp20170201p143.pdf
AAFP News: AFP Edition
...which objects to the time-consuming processes [that] bur- den family physicians, divert valuable resources away from direct patient care, and can inadvertently lead to negative patient outcomes. For more information, go to http://www.aafp.org/news/practice-professional-...
American Family Physician
https://www.aafp.org/afp/2017/0715/afp20170715p80.pdf
AAFP Offers Solutions to Ease E/M Documentation Burdens
The AAFP has offered recommendations to CMS regarding changes to evaluation and management documentation guidelines.
https://www.aafp.org/news/government-medicine/20180427burdensletter.html
AAFP Online CME
View all AAFP CME online activities.
https://www.aafp.org/cme/browse/all-formats/online.html
AAFP Outlines Quality Measurement Strategy for Primary Care
The AAFP has created a position paper on quality measurement for primary care that features six guiding principles aimed at helping steer future development and use of measurement in practice improvement and physician payment.
https://www.aafp.org/news/practice-professional-issues/20190114measurespaper.html
AAFP Performance Improvement CME
View all AAFP Continuing Medical Education on performance Improvement and earn CME credit.
https://www.aafp.org/cme/topic/performance-improvement.html
AAFP Pushes Against Executive Order on Equivalent Payment
A recent White House executive order meant to bolster Medicare includes some good ideas -- but one element could impair high-quality, team-based primary care, the Academy warned in an Oct. 11 letter.
https://www.aafp.org/news/government-medicine/20191014execorder.html
AAFP Pushes CMS to Clear 'Safe Harbors' in Stark Law
The AAFP told CMS in a recent letter how the agency could change self-referral rules that unduly burden physicians who adopt innovative payment models.
https://www.aafp.org/news/government-medicine/20180905starkletter.html
AAFP Recommendations to President Biden on Building A Robust Primary Care Workforce - ...
The AAFP sent a letter to the Biden administration detailing recommendations to strengthen the primary care workforce by recruiting and retaining new family medicine physicians.
Advocacy
https://www.aafp.org/dam/AAFP/documents/advocacy/workforce/gme/LT-WhiteHouse-AAFPRecommendationsPrimaryCareWorkforce-012921.pdf
AAFP Reprint No 287 Recommended Curriculum Guidelines for Family Medicine Residents ...
Global health continues to evolve as an academic discipline with increasingly diverse areas of concentration and training available for family physicians. Examples of such areas include, but are not limited to public and community health, clinical training and service, research, and ...
Med School and Residency
https://www.aafp.org/dam/AAFP/documents/medical_education_residency/program_directors/Reprint287_Global.pdf
AAFP Reprint No 289C Recommended Curriculum Guidelines for Family Medicine Residents ...
More and more, physicians are being asked to help improve the quality of health care provided to patients. They are often part of a team comprised of physicians, non-physician health care professionals, and medical and non-medical support staff. Training and education in quality ...
Med School and Residency
https://www.aafp.org/dam/AAFP/documents/medical_education_residency/program_directors/Reprint289C_Learning.pdf
AAFP Resident Delegate American Medical Assoc. House of Delegates 2020 Annual Report
...preserving net neutrality for modern health care, ensuring access to safe and quality care for veterans, advocating federal legislation banning conversion therapy, enhancing medical education standards to improve health care for LGBTQ+ patients and training future physicians in...
Events
https://www.aafp.org/dam/AAFP/documents/events/nc/congress/2020/nc20-ama-resident-2.pdf