Texas Family Physician archive
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- Are you taking care of your emotional health?
- Legislative check-up
- Are you at risk for cyber fraud?
- COVID-19: A personal and professional journey
- CPAN helps with pediatric psychiatry access
- Coalition presents vision to rewire primary care financing
- Registering voters at health care centers
TAFP 2.0
Vol. 71, No. 4 | Q4 2020
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- Finding joy in stressful times
- President’s Letter: Blessings, hopes, and new beginnings
- Report from TAFP Annual Session and Primary Care Summit
- Meet TAFP’s new officers
- 2021 coding changes
- MS: A physician-turned-patient’s perspective
- Change is on the horizon
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- AI in the exam room
- Why EHR integration can no longer be your only marketing investment
- President’s letter: The resilient nature of family physicians
- Thompson wins top AAFP education award
- Direct primary care: A light in the darkness
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- Meet the Texas Family Physician of the Year, Sheri Talley, MD.
- Spreading knowledge with Project ECHO
- President’s letter: Summer plans?
- Candidates for TAFP Board of Directors
- 2019 Annual Report
- What’s being heard: Methods for establishing strong patient rapport
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- Three ways to boost your practice
- Coming soon: CPAN
- The impact of the UTHealth medical legal partnership on utilization and health harming legal needs
- Highlights from TAFP’s Annual Session
- A welcome reminder a long way from home
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- Looking ahead to 2020
- An unspoken chief complaint: Human trafficking
- Family doctors and Texas’ new medical cannabis program
- Winners announced in TAFP innovators competition
- Endangered species: Independent physicians
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- Stop burnout at the source: Delegate your burden
- ABFM: What’s next for MOC
- Accomplishments, challenges in a whirlwind year
- Five ways to cut down administrative burden
- TAFP Board of Directors candidate bios
- The health care zombie apocalypse
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- CDC warns of misapplication of its opioid guideline
- Texas Med Ed, 2019
- Family medicine in a time of mergers and acquisitions
- Interim Session highlights
- Recent challenges to a culture of patient safety
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- The EveryONE Project has big plans for 2019
- Luck be a lady: Family medicine reunion
- Strong medicine
- TAFP in 2019 and beyond
- The aging physician model
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- Advocating for patients in the #MeToo era
- What’s on the agenda for women’s health?
- “Apollo 13” and behavioral health
- ABFM to pilot alternative to board exam
- Your Academy offers new telemedicine platform
- Asking the “One Key Question”
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- Meet the candidates
- Learning to lead
- A plea for psychiatric support
- Interim Session report
- The benefits of having an Enterprise Identity Management account
- Living an intentional life
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- Updated guidance for prescribing naloxone
- AAFP, other groups issue joint principles on opioid crisis
- AAFP: Fix physician payment to stem opioid epidemic
- Courage on display at Community First Village
- Why physician advocacy is important
- FPs should provide medication-assisted treatment for opioid addiction
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- Chagas disease on our doorstep
- Failure to diagnose melanoma
- Something to chew on
- Highlights from TAFP’s Annual Session
- New tools help you with MIPS
- Walk With a Doc
- Tips for new FPs
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- An excerpt from the inaugural address of TAFP’s new president
- TAFP members shine bright at AAFP Congress of Delegates
- Photos and news from Galveston conference
- Addressing Texas’ maternal mortality crisis
- Maybe U.S. schools should look abroad for new ideas.
- An Oregon tale
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- Member profile: Doug Curran, MD
- An expert’s take on AI in medicine
- Understanding kids with ADHD
- The 24-hour primary care clinic
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- How to say no to opioid Rx requests: A case study by the Texas Pain Foundation.
- Personal finance 101: keep your eye on the prize
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- Medicare enrollment land mines
- On the border of health
- Chronic Care Management requirements and benefits explained
- Highlights from TAFP’s 2016 Annual Session and Primary Care Summit
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- After the election, what's next for health care
- Report and photos from TAFP's 2016 Annual Session & Primary Care Summit in Dallas
- Characteristics of high-value family medicine practices
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- OIG steps up investigations
- Preview: Get ready for TAFP’s Annual Session & Primary Care Summit in Dallas this November
- HPV — It’s a Texas-sized problem
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- The QRUR: How will your practice get paid?
- Renewing your license? Here’s what not to do
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- What you need to know about Medicare’s new merit-based incentive payment system and alternative payment models
- Report, photos from Annual Session and Primary Care Summit
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- Are you sure you’re billing properly for services your NPs and PAs provide?
- 10 top apps to boost your efficiency and help your patients
- Hard knocks: Sports-related concussion in the young athlete
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- Women’s health and public health coalitions tally wins from the 84th Texas Legislature
- ICD-10: The final countdown
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- Missed opportunities in the 84th Texas Legislature
- Report from 2015 C. Frank Webber and Interim Session
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- AAFP touts family medicine for America’s health
- The big picture: Health reform in 2015
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- Physician, protect your assets
- Get the 411 on Medicare Advantage
- Is e-prescribing controlled drugs worth the pain?
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- Photos and report from TAFP’s 65th Annual Session and Scientific Assembly
- How to come out ahead when it’s time to sell your practice
- The hybrid concierge model explained
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- How to be ready for the recovery audit contractor
- Interim Session highlights and proposed bylaws amendments
- Embrace the concept of “slow medicine”
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- It’s time to evaluate the primary care infrastructure
- A Texas longhorn in the Queen’s surgery
- Year in review: A look back at TAFP’s 2013
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- Annual Session full report and photos
- Compliance audits: 5 mistakes you should avoid
- HIPAA: Do you know who your business associates are?
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- 83rd Texas Legislature report
- Your practice and the health insurance marketplace
- Texas and the affordable care act
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- Advanced coding tips
- C. Frank Webber Report
- Proposed bylaws changes
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- Primary care makes progress in the mission city
- TAFP’s 2012: A look back at 2012
- Lloyd Van Winkle, M.D., wins bid for AAFP Board of Directors
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- Annual session full report and pictures inside
- Top eight investments to make when forming your compliance plan
- Head injuries in the young athlete
- Be a champion for family medicine’s future
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- Shared Savings and Pioneer ACOs on the rise in Texas
- Texas Medical Board rules you should know
- “Choosing Wisely” campaign aims to cut costs, improve quality
- Report from the Family Medicine Chief Resident Conference
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- Texas Medical Board rules you should know
- Manage your risk: Review the closed claim study inside
- CMS announces new measures to target fraud and abuse
- News and pictures from TAFP’s 2012 C. Frank Webber Lectureship
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- Demystifying clinical integration
- Education can help you avoid TMB investigation
- TAFP in 2011: Year in Review
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- Austin family doc describes path to “meaningful use”
- CMS primary care initiative will test blended payment
- AAFP billing expert on how to prepare for ICD-10
- News and pics from TAFP’s 2011 Annual Session in Dallas
- And more.
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- How to renegotiate your managed care contracts
- AAFP to the RUC: We’re watching you
- Get ready for change in HIPAA electronic transaction standards
- And more.
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- TAFP bill would keep more Texas-trained docs in state
- 10 time management tips to improve your practice
- And more.
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- Big challenges ahead as 82nd Texas Legislature convenes
- Six ways to boost revenue in your practice
- Bridges to Excellence rewards quality docs
- And more.
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- Roland Goertz, M.D., M.B.A., installed as AAFP president
- Primary care preceptorships under the knife again
- CMS recovery audit contractors: What you need to know
- And more.
