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Attend Alabama Chapter AAFP Annual Meeting at Sandestin Golf and Beach Resort 📅 Dates: June 20-23, 2024📍 Location: Destin, FL Sponsored by Alabama Academy of Family Physicians FoundationFunded by the Alabama Family Practice Rural Health Board Purpose The Alabama Academy of Family Physicians is offering stipends to enhance the ability of AAFP student members to attend the 2024 annual meeting. Eligibility…

The Alabama Medicaid Agency, Montgomery Central Office, seeks to fill a position of a Public Health Physician Director (40434).  This position is responsible for providing clinical leadership and guidance to the Alabama Medicaid Agency in coordination with the Commissioner’s Office. This highly advanced professional, administrative, and medical position involves providing guidance in medical-related services within the Alabama…

On Feb. 15, Julie Wood, M.D., FAAFP, the AAFP’s Senior Vice President of Research, Science, and Health of the Public; the Robert Graham Center’s Yalda Jabbarpour, M.D.; and AAFP member Drew Miller, M.D., FAAFP, presented at the National Rural Health Association’s Policy Institute Conference to discuss how family physicians play an instrumental role in providing maternity care…

As the upcoming legislative session approaches, beginning on February 6, it is essential to understand and support the legislative priorities that will ensure the welfare of our members, and our patients. Our priorities are in no particular order and are of significant and equal importance.

Family physicians spent a lot of time in 2023 advocating for policies and regulations that would improve patient care. The American Academy of Family Physicians applauds Congress and health care agencies for implementing changes to strengthen access to care and ensure that physicians have the tools and resources they need to continue providing high-quality, longitudinal primary care to patients. 

Your membership provides you with an invaluable platform for learning, networking, and collaboration in the family medicine field. Pay your dues before March 1, 2024, to continue reaping these benefits. You can utilize AAFP QuickPay or directly reach out to the AAFP membership team at 800-274-2237 to assist you through the process.

The care you provide your patients is complex and comprehensive. G2211 will help you get paid more accurately for it. Starting January 1, 2024, use this new add-on code alongside office/outpatient evaluation and management (E/M) codes to receive additional payment for the high-value visits you provide.

In late December, AAFP officially launched the Family Medicine Career Benchmark Dashboard. The family medicine career benchmark dashboard is a first-of-its-kind tool for the specialty.

Welcome to Family Medicine Advocacy Rounds—the American Academy of Family Physicians’ monthly tip sheet to educate, engage, and update you on the latest policy issues affecting family physicians and their patients. Download the September issue here.

It is time. We can no longer afford to choose our elected leaders on the basis of a canned seven minute talk and the answers to questions that have been pulled from a cardboard box. We need hard scientific evidence to inform our decision. That’s why today, at this first in person meeting of the…