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Educate your patients with AAFP’s personalized “What is a Family Physician?” brochure
New from AAFP, promote your value within the American health care system by personalizing, printing and distributing a free marketing piece about family medicine. The four-color “What is a Family Physician” brochure advocates the role of the family physician in treating the whole person, regardless of age or sex. The brochure is available online at the AAFP patient Web site, familydoctor.org.
Family physicians join the frontlines of tobacco cessation
The AAFP’s tobacco cessation program, "Ask and Act," encourages family physicians to ASK all patients about tobacco use, then to ACT to help them quit. Go to the Ask and Act Web site to access a practice toolkit, patient education materials, tobacco statistics and more.
Managed care contract negotiation guide
To help members through the maze of managed-care contract negotiations, AAFP has developed a 12-page guide that takes members step-by-step through the process. Have your AAFP member number and password handy when you’re asked to log in. Click here to go to the Private Sector Advocacy page, then follow the link in the spotlight box.
AAFP’s Health Plan Complaint Form
Have a gripe about a managed care plan? Register your complaint with AAFP’s Health Plan Complaint Form. You can fill out the form online or print it out as a pdf so that different members of your staff can complete sections that pertain to them. You can also view all of the complaints filed so far to see if other members are having similar problems. Data AAFP gathers through this form will be used to grade third party payers in what could be considered a health plan report card in a future issue of Family Practice Management, so fill out forms on your payers and make your experience count.