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Here's What AAFP's Restructuring Means for You
This month, the Academy emerged from an intensive, difficult and ultimately successful restructuring process designed to achieve a balanced AAFP operational budget for fiscal year 2008-2009, which begins June 1.
5/8/2008

TransforMED Offers Free Medical Home Assessment Tool
Medical practices working on becoming medical homes now can measure their progress, thanks to a free and comprehensive assessment tool recently made available by TransforMED, a practice redesign initiative affiliated with the AAFP.
5/8/2008

AAFP Past President Calls for End to Health Care Disparities
The nation's health care system continues to perpetuate health care disparities by providing different levels of care for minority and nonminority patients, thus creating a two-tiered health care system that makes it difficult for minorities to access a high level of care. That's according to former AAFP President Warren A. Jones, M.D., of Ridgeland, Miss., who delivered the keynote address during the 2008 National Conference of Special Constituencies May 1 in Kansas City, Mo.
5/8/2008

Physicians Must Lead Way to Health Care Reform
When it comes to the U.S. health care system, "we have multiple organ failure," said former U.S. Surgeon General Joycelyn Elders, M.D., during a recent meeting in Kansas City, Mo. And in terms of how physicians have responded to America's growing health care crisis, Elders added, "we have not been great leaders."
5/8/2008

Guideline Update: Combination of Counseling, Medications Most Effective for Combating Tobacco Dependence
Evidence from the U.S. Public Health Service's 2008 update of the Clinical Practice Guideline: Treating Tobacco Use and Dependence indicates that both counseling and medication for tobacco dependence in adults are effective, especially when combined. Moreover, suggests the AAFP-endorsed guideline update, health systems, insurers and purchasers should help clinicians make such treatments available.
5/7/2008

Delegates to 2008 NCSC Choose New Leaders, Tackle Representation Issue
AAFP constituent chapter representatives who attended the Academy's National Conference of Special Constituencies, or NCSC, May 1-3 in Kansas City, Mo., elected colleagues to fill various leadership positions.
5/6/2008

New Bill Provides Safeguard Against Genetic Discrimination
Legislation barring discrimination based on genetic testing may pave the way for greater use of genetic tests to detect various genetically mediated illnesses -- often before they even manifest themselves. With such early detection, development of disease can sometimes be avoided. The Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act of 2008, H.R. 493, passed the Senate by a 95-0 margin last week, and the House adopted the measure May 1 on a 414-1 vote. The bill prohibits employers from making hiring, assignment or promotion decisions based on genetic data.
5/2/2008

Numerous Candidates Vie for AAFP Leadership Positions
Fourteen candidates are seeking election or re-election to Academy offices and the AAFP Board of Directors. The AAFP Congress of Delegates will elect officers and new directors Sept. 17 in San Diego.
5/2/2008

People in the News -- May
A number of AAFP members have received honors and awards and other career development opportunities in the past several months.
5/6/2008

CMS Promotes One-Day NPI Testing Exercise
CMS is promoting a one-day testing exercise, dubbed "Legacy Free Day," on May 7 that is aimed at helping Medicare providers evaluate their National Provider Identifier, or NPI, readiness before CMS' May 23 deadline for using the NPI number alone.
4/30/2008

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