Contents tagged with primary care
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7 national primary care organizations launch joint vision to rewire primary care financing
With COVID-19 as a catalyst, the organizations developed recommendations to fundamentally change the way primary care is financed, improve health equity, and boost clinicians’ ability to offer seamlessly integrated care
By One Voice
Seven of the nation’s largest primary care physician organizations have released recommendations on the urgent need to change the way primary care is delivered and financed. The American Academy of Family Physicians, the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American Board of Family Medicine, the American Board of Internal Medicine, the American Board of Pediatrics, the American College of Physicians, and the Society of General Internal Medicine represent more than 400,000 physicians and have created a unified vision to change the conversation and modernize primary care as we know it.
This collaborative work comes at a critical time when the health of the population has weakened and the primary care setting has been severely strained by COVID-19. Handling nearly 40% of all health care visits, primary care clinicians have made incredible adaptations to continue to provide care during the pandemic, yet they have been largely left out of national pandemic relief legislation. A series of clinician surveys conducted during the pandemic has shown widespread closures and layoffs among primary care practices despite the critical role these practices and clinicians play in pandemic recovery efforts.
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We need a “Marshall Plan” to save primary care, public health infrastructure
By Christopher Crow, MD, MBA, President of Catalyst Health network and Tom Banning, CEO of Texas Academy of Family Physicians
Following the devastation of World War II, the United States enacted the Marshall Plan to rebuild a heavily damaged Europe. Our war against this novel coronavirus is far from over, but it is already wreaking havoc on the nation’s primary care workforce. Our frontline health care providers are putting themselves at risk every day without proper personal protective equipment while community-based primary care clinics are facing economic disaster.
We need a Marshall Plan for our primary care and public health infrastructure.
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It’s time to evaluate the primary care infrastructure
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It’s time to talk about the primary care infrastructure
By Bruce Bagley, M.D.TransforMED CEO
Let’s face it, we have made tremendous progress over the past few years in defining and … more
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Texas Medicaid contractor begins accepting primary care attestation
Want to receive enhanced Medicaid fees under ACA? You must complete the Texas Medicaid attestation form
posted 07.24.13
Updated 10.02.13
The state’s Health and Human Services Commission recently … more
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Improving the Primary Care Workforce in Texas video
Improving the Primary Care Workforce in Texas
Primary care is the key to better health outcomes and lower health care spending, but many Texans don’t have a primary care physician to care for them. … more
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The right kind of doctors for Texas
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Revisiting barriers to building the primary care workforce, 20 years later
By Kate Alfano
For 20 years, health care stakeholders have urged academic institutions to change how … more
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Nurse practitioners fire first shots in latest battle to achieve independent practice
Nurse practitioners fire first shots in latest battle to achieve independent practice
posted 05.27.10
Nurse practitioners say they know how to solve Texas’ shortage of primary care physicians: … more
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State leaders must be willing to invest in the training of more primary care physicians
By Tom Banning
TAFP CEO/EVPThere is not a self-respecting health policy analyst here or anywhere in the country who will say otherwise – we need to invest in and produce more primary care physicians.
The conventional economic wisdom, backed by common sense and an abundance of evidence drawn from the real world, is that patients with ready access to primary care receive more timely and optimal health care services with better outcomes. Primary care physicians provide preventive, coordinated, and continuous care which results in less invasive and costly medical intervention and reduces the probability of redundant or unnecessary services.
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Report: Texas residency slots not keeping up with medical school graduates
Report: Texas residency slots not keeping up with medical school graduates
posted 04.26.12
A new report released April 25, 2012, reveals a severe problem in addressing the Texas physician … more
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Media draw attention to state cuts to primary care workforce initiatives
Media draw attention to state cuts to primary care workforce initiatives
Submit your ideas to rescue primary care in Texas
posted 08.23.11
Two articles published this week analyze the impact … more