TAFP’s monthly Products & Services e-newsletter highlights products and services important to family physicians. See this month’s offerings below.
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Make sure you get paid for Medicare preventive services with AAFP guide |
As of Jan. 1, a provision of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act requires that certain preventive services family physicians provide for their Medicare patients be covered without patient deductibles or coinsurance payments. To help ensure members get paid for providing the identified preventive services—including alcohol screening, depression screening, behavioral counseling to prevent sexually transmitted infections, counseling to reduce cardiovascular disease risk, and counseling for obesity—AAFP has created an online tool that lists each new benefit covered without deductible or coinsurance costs to the patient, the number of relative value units and the “G” procedure code assigned to that benefit, and all relevant coverage information. It also includes links to pertinent CMS MLN Matters articles, as well as links to CMS national coverage decisions. Download the four-page PDF through this link to AAFP’s website. |
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Delta-Exchange medical home network now free for AAFP members |
TransforMed’s Delta-Exchange—the patient-centered medical home learning and collaboration network—is now free for AAFP members. Delta-Exchange enables physicians to share PCMH best practices with their colleagues, clinical staff, office staff, and primary care-focused residency programs, and access resources like monthly online seminars, feedback from TransforMed expert facilitators, forms and templates, PCMH recognition requirements, residency program support, and events. Find out more and register today through this link to AAFP’s website.
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CDC launches Up and Away and Out of Sight educational program |
Every year, more than 60,000 young children end up in the emergency rooms after getting into medicines while their parents or caregivers were not looking. That’s why the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Consumer Healthcare Products Association Educational Foundation have launched the Up and Away and Out of Sight educational program—to remind families and caregivers of the importance of safe medicine storage. Physicians can help the cause by sharing the program website, UpandAway.org, with their patients with children to educate them about proper medicine storage, providing them with information and tools to keep their children safe, and encouraging them to take action.
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Ease your board preparations with AAFP resources |
When it’s time to get serious, AAFP CME Board Review resources can help you prepare to pass. Choose from Board Review Express™ live courses, the Family Medicine Update and Review course, the Family Medicine Board Review Learning Package (the audio version of AAFP’s live course), the FP Comprehensive™ Board Prep CD-ROM interactive tool, the FP Essentials™ monographs subscription, the FP Audio™ subscription, clinical learning packages, or online board review questions. Start preparing today. Go to www.aafp.org/brprep.
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