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Dec. 17, 2014 | Issue 103 |
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Government Affairs
Incoming Governor Prepares to Take Office
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Tom Wolf doesn’t get sworn in as Pennsylvania’s 47th governor until Jan. 20, but in the meantime, he has assembled leaders of his transition teams and announced several key appointments to staff his office. The governor-elect has also indicated that he intends to bring full Medicaid expansion to Pennsylvania, just as Gov. Tom Corbett’s Healthy PA hybrid plan began enrolling applicants on Dec. 1, with the program set to launch Jan. 1.
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Practice Advocacy
Register Today for MA Cessation Counseling Payment
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Register for Pennsylvania’s Tobacco Cessation Registry to submit for payment for smoking cessation services provided to your Medical Assistance patients. Receive $19.33 per patient for cessation counseling. The code only applies to MA patients, and you must be enrolled in MA and the registry. You can bill up to 70 annual 10-minute, face-to-face counseling sessions per patient. Enroll here. The PA Free Quitline has a Fax to Quit program to help you help your patients. Click here for Fax to Quit details! Free smoking cessation CME and resources from the PAFP: www.pafp.com/smoke
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Education
Registration Coming Soon for Valley Forge CME, Annual Meeting
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Registration is coming soon for the Valley Forge CME Conference, Annual Business Meeting, and Research Day, March 19-22, 2015. Meanwhile, if you need CME credits by the end of the year, check out the PAFP’s online CME catalog, which offers plenty of free CME and patient safety credits available 24/7 for you to watch at your convenience. See the full catalog here.
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Public Health
How Well Can Your Office Weather the Storm?
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Register at http://www.pafp.com/plan for a free lunchtime mini-webcast Emergency Preparedness and Primary Care CME series. This series meets the patient safety and risk management CME requirements.
• Jan 14: Primary care physician roles in disasters and importance of preparedness
• Jan 15: Risk and hazard vulnerability assessment for medical practices
• Jan 21: Planning for disasters - key elements of business continuity planning for medical practices
• Jan 22: Evaluating the practice emergency plan - training and drills
• Jan 28: Practice communications in emergencies - communicating with patients and partners
• Jan 29: Preparing patients with special health care needs for emergencies
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Quality Improvement
Be Prepared for Meaningful Use in 2015 |
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Start 2015 off well-prepared to meet all the criteria for Meaningful Use (MU) with these helpful reminders:
• Providers must use 2014 Edition certified EHR technology (CEHRT) for 2015.
• All Medicare eligible providers, except those in their first year of demonstrating MU reporting, are required to have a full year reporting period, no matter what stage of Meaningful Use you are in.
• Eligible providers who are not successful Meaningful Users in 2015 will be subject to a 3 percent payment adjustment to their Medicare physician fee schedule (PFS) in 2017.
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Residents & Students
Teaching Awards, Research Day Coming Soon |
Call for nominations - PAFP Exemplary Teaching Awards: Honor those family docs who have inspired you most – those who helped you become the best physician you can be! Nominations for full- and part-time faculty and volunteer faculty. Your heartfelt letters are the most important elements of a successful nomination. Ask your department admin team for help with the rest! Contact Molly Talley for more info. Deadline: Jan. 30, 2015
Research Day online abstract submission and registration form coming SOON! Submission deadline: Friday, March 6, 2015. Check out our tips for presenters as you work to put your abstract together.
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Free CRC Screening Assistance Available
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Introducing Primary Healthcare Consultants
After months of research, planning, and development, the PAFP is proud to introduce Primary Healthcare Consultants. From Meaningful Use to patient-centered medical home transformation, Primary Healthcare Consultants is dedicated to practice innovation and transformation. Click here to visit the website!
Nominate Yourself or a Colleague for 2015 Family Physician of the Year!
You are a family physician – the person patients trust most when they’re not feeling well, when they have questions about their health, when they need everything from vaccinations to prescriptions. There are thousands of excellent family physicians in Pennsylvania, and we want to hear why you think you or a colleague is the best of all – maybe you’ll be chosen as the Pennsylvania Academy of Family Physicians’ 2015 Family Physician of the Year!
Jan. 19, 2015 is the deadline for entries to the PAFP’s 2015 Family Physician of the Year contest – be sure to read the contest rules on www.pafp.com/topdoc.
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