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At the Texas Academy of Family Physicians, our mission is to promote the health of all Texans by serving the needs of members and advancing the specialty of family medicine.

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NEWS
Managed care Medicaid patients who are disabled or age 65 or older may have to change plans soon

Affected patients must select new STAR+PLUS plans by July 10, 2024.

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HEALTHY PRACTICE
Online CME — Solutions to Administrative Burden: Inbox

In this free one-hour on-demand activity, family physicians discuss innovations they’ve deployed to address administrative burden.

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AAFP NEWS
Family Medicine Advocacy Rounds for April 2024

AAFP President advocates permanent Medicare payment reform as your Academy applauds student loan repayment, celebrates National Minority Health Month, and more.

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MEMBER VOICES

Triage in the moment of trauma

When an EF3 tornado ripped through the Panhandle town of Perryton in June 2023, TAFP member Blake DeWitt, MD, and the team of health professionals there sprung to action amid the devastation. Here is his first-person account.

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NEW ONLINE CME
Get your required human trafficking CME 

Watch TAFP's online course, "Identifying Human Trafficking in Texas: What Physicians Need to Know," and get your required human trafficking training credit.

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PRACTICE RESOURCES
Administrative simplification

The TAFP Council on Medical Practice has curated a set of articles and resources to help you reduce administrative burden in your practice.

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PRACTICE RESOURCES
Value-based care resources

Watch an informational video by Dr. Peter Valenzuela and access a variety of other VBC tools and resources.

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Meet your May Member of the Month

Gabriela Z. Hill, MD

Third-year resident Gabriela Z. Hill, MD, will complete her residency at Houston Methodist Baytown in the coming months, and hopes to practice full-spectrum family medicine in her community. She has lived throughout the Texas/Louisiana Gulf Coast for her entire life, including completing medical school at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston. Hill has undergraduate training in ecology and evolutionary biology, which she says informs her practice style as a physician.

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