Contents tagged with texas family physician
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Budget slashes 80 percent of support for programs designed to increase primary care physician workforce
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Budget slashes 80 percent of support for programs designed to increase primary care physician workforce
By Jonathan Nelson
As lawmakers crafted and passed innovative, market-based … more
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Good News, Bad News: TAFP’s recap of the 82nd Texas Lege
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Good News, Bad News:TAFP’s recap of the 82nd Texas Lege
By Kate Alfano
For health care reform advocates, the 82nd Texas Legislature will go down as the session of what might have … more
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Payment reform starts with family doctors
By Melissa Gerdes, M.D.
TAFP President, 2010-2011Adequate payment for primary care health services has long been an issue for family medicine. The absence of adequate payment has affected our specialty in numerous ways, including forcing physicians to see too many patients too fast, causing student interest in family medicine to decline, and leading practicing physicians into non-clinical careers. This migration of physicians away from family medicine has a negative effect on the public and our patients. According to the Commonwealth Fund, countries that have a lower proportion of primary care physicians to patients have populations with higher morbidities and poorer health outcomes.
Our current payment system is volume-driven, where physicians are paid more for doing things to patients than for doing things for patients. Research shows that doing more things to a patient does not automatically result in improved health outcomes. In fact, such practice very often results in worsened health outcomes. How do we migrate away from the volume basis?
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Texas Tech faculty becomes hospital CMO
Texas Tech faculty becomes hospital CMO
TAFP member Michael Ragain, M.D., has been named chief medical officer of the University Medical Center in Lubbock. In this position, Ragain will work with … more
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CMS releases ACO guidelines
CMS releases ACO guidelines
Plus, check out new ACO resources for family physicians
After months of delays, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services released the draft regulations for the … more
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More medical students match into family medicine residencies in 2011
More medical students match into family medicine residencies in 2011
By Monica Kortsha
Results from the 2011 residency match released by the National Resident Matching Program on March 17 show an … more
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Interim Session 2011 Minutes in Brief
Interim Session 2011 Minutes in Brief
The TAFP Board of Directors met on Saturday, March 12, 2011, to hear reports and recommendations from TAFP’s committees, commissions, and sections. Below are … more
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Fuel Up to Play 60 and make a difference
Fuel Up to Play 60 and make a difference
By Teresa Wagner, M.S., R.D./L.D.Program Director, Dairy Max Incorporated
Fuel Up to Play 60 is an in-school nutrition and physical activity program … more
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10 tips to maximize your time
10 tips to maximize your time
By Donald E. Stillwagon, M.D.
Editor’s note: Like many family physicians, Donald E. Stillwagon, M.D., of The Woodlands, Texas, must make the most of his time in the … more
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The budget session
The budget session
By Kate Alfano
Having passed the halfway point in the 82nd Texas Legislature, the dominant issue of this session has been and continues to be the budget. Lawmakers came into … more