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The NJAFP is offering two unique pre-conference workshops designed to help family physicians survive financially, and take steps to rediscover the joy in practicing family medicine.  To say that these are difficult economic times for NJ primary care would be an understatement, but some practicing family physicians have found ways to remain not only solvent, but financially successful.  Primary Care physicians and their office staffs are invited to come learn some immediate steps that they can take to implement the techniques and tactics that these successful physicians have discov

Late in the evening on March 2, the US Senate approved the House-passed bill that extends unemployment benefits, COBRA, the SGR and other payment and benefit provisions.  The bill funds Medicare payments to physicians at the current rate until March 31.  The President immediately signed the bill.  

Once again our nation's fractured health care system sits at the precipice of a potentially decimating cut of 21.2% to Medicare physician payment rates scheduled to take effect on March 1. This cut will not only cripple many family physicians, but it will make primary care even more difficult to access for many of our most vulnerable senior citizens.

The New Jersey Academy of Family Physicians (NJAFP) is pleased to announce that 32 practices participating in the NJAFP/Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey (Horizon) Patient-Centered Medical Home (PCMH) Recognition Pilot Project, have received national PCMH recognition from NCQA. These practices represent 63 individual practice sites and 167 Family Physicians and other primary care doctors actively participating in the NJAFP/Horizon project, which began in April 2009.  "This is a major accomplishment for the practices.