Contents tagged with direct primary care
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The clock is winding down on the Texas Legislature
The clock is winding down on the Texas Legislature
posted 5.27.15
With less than a week left in the 84th Texas Legislature, many bills TAFP has been tracking have passed the House and the Senate … more
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Direct primary care: An alternative to fee-for-service
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Direct primary care: An alternative to fee-for-service
By Kate Alfano
Unlimited time with patients, decreased practice overhead, less exposure to risk, fewer medical errors, zero … more
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Direct Primary Care
Direct primary care
Watch “What is direct primary care?”
MORE VIDEOS • Family physicians embracing change
• What is an ACO?
• A physician-led Austin ACO
Direct primary care, or DPC, … more
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Family physicians embracing change
Family physicians embracing change
Watch “Family physicians embracing change”
MORE VIDEOS • What is an ACO?
• What is direct primary care?
• A physician-led Austin ACO
Health care … more
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All hands on deck
By Dale Ragle, MD
TAFP President, 2014-2015Welcome colleagues to a new year, a new Congress, and a new Texas Legislature. On all fronts, health care is evolving. These changes present family physicians tremendous opportunities to shape our future health care system. It’s up to all of us as family physicians to advocate for our specialty in the halls where decisions are made that affect our patients and our practices.
In Washington, D.C., the 114th Congress is well under way and is busy on a number of health care issues. AAFP’s advocacy work is focused on fixing Medicare’s broken payment model, changing Meaningful Use requirements, delaying ICD-10, and reforming graduate medical education funding. Another area in which AAFP is concentrating efforts is in making payment for direct primary care services a qualified health benefit under IRS rules. This would enable patients to pay for direct primary care with pre-tax HSA and FLEX account dollars, a move that would aid the expansion of this emerging and promising model of practice.
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