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Tag Archives: AAFP
The Wrong Battles
Brian Klepper Posted 9/20/12 on Medscape Connect’s Care and Cost Blog This week the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) issued a new report describing its vision of primary care’s future. Not surprisingly, the report talks about medical homes, with patient-centered, team-based care. More surprisingly, though, … Continue reading
The ACP’s Cognitive Dissonance
Brian Klepper Relative to their specialist colleagues, primary care physicians have been generally passive about the politics that shape their professional lives, and they have been big losers. It is important for them to consider whether their societies are genuinely … Continue reading
Posted in Brian Klepper, Conflicts of Interest, Health Care Cost, Market Dynamics, Medical Management, Physicians, Policy/Law/Regulation, Politics
Tagged AAFP, AAP, ACP, American Academy of Family Physicians, American Academy of Pediatrics, American College of Physicians, American Osteopathic Association, AOA, Bob Doherty, David C. Kibbe, Paul Fischer, Primary Care
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Should Family Physicians Leave the RUC?
Brian Klepper Posted 3/30/12 on KevinMD Last June the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) sent a letter to the AMA’s Relative Value Scale Update Committee (RUC) demanding specific changes to the ways that the RUC conducts its business. Primary care … Continue reading
Politics in Service of Public Health
Kenneth Lin First published 8/1/11 on Common Sense Family Doctor Below is the text of a proposed resolution that will be submitted by the District of Columbia Academy of Family Physicians to next month’s Congress of Delegates of the American Academy of … Continue reading
The AAFP’s Bold Valuation Initiative
Brian Klepper This morning, the American Academy of Family Physicians, the largest and “purest” of the major primary care societies – the American College of Physicians (ACP), the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) and the American Osteopathic Association (AOA) are … Continue reading
Posted in Analytics, Brian Klepper, General, Innovation, Medical Management, Physicians, Policy/Law/Regulation, Quality, Reform, Tools
Tagged AAFP, AMA RUC, Brian Klepper, RBRVS, Valuation Task Force
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Why Primary Care Needs A New Organization
Paul M. Fischer First published on 6/15/11 on MedPage Today A few weeks ago, the Board of the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) announced that, for now, it would continue participating in the Relative Value Scale Update Committee (RUC), the … Continue reading
Posted in Market Dynamics, Medical Management, Physicians, Policy/Law/Regulation, Quality, Reform
Tagged AAFP, AAP, ACP, American Academy of Family Physicians, American Academy of Pediatrics, American College of Physicians, American Osteopathic Association, AOA, Health Care Cost Crisis, Medicare, Paul Fischer, Physician Payment, Primary Care, Relative Value Scale Update Committee, RUC
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A Family Physician’s Manifesto
Paul M. Fischer As a third-year medical student in 1977, I joined the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP). In those culturally tumultuous years, it was a way to declare my belief that America needed physicians who cared for the … Continue reading
Posted in General, Market Dynamics, Medical Management, Physicians, Policy/Law/Regulation, Quality, Reform
Tagged AAFP, Health Care Cost, Primary Care, RVS Update Committee
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Replace the RUC!
BRIAN KLEPPER A few weeks ago, my writing partner David C. Kibbe and I ran an article on Kaiser Health News called “Quit the RUC!“ that has caused some turmoil within the physician community, particularly in DC. First, it noted that … Continue reading
Posted in Innovation, Market Dynamics, Medical Management, Physicians, Policy/Law/Regulation, Quality, Reform
Tagged AAFP, AAP, AOA, Brian Klepper, Paul Fischer, RBRVS, RUC
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AAFP Partners With Surescripts On A New, Secure Electronic Messaging Service For Physicians
BRIAN KLEPPER Here’s an extraordinary development in the ongoing efforts to break down the barriers of a lack of interoperability standards and incompatible technologies! The American Academy of Family Physicians has partnered with Surescripts, a firm that connects physicians with … Continue reading
Posted in General, Health IT, Innovation, Market Dynamics, Medical Management, Physicians, Quality, Reform, Tools
Tagged AAFP, David C. Kibbe, Interoperability, Surescripts, Technology Standards
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