The California legislature passed the 2023 -2024 health budget trailer bill, which renews the State’s Managed Care Organization (MCO) tax and provides the largest Medi-Cal rate increase in California history. Starting in 2024, the health budget trailer bill increases provider rates to at least 87.5 percent of Medicare for primary care, maternity care, and non-specialty […]
The CAFP Committee Nominations Cycle With the recent appointment of members to CAFPs new Justice, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (JEDI) Committee, CAFP has now executed our second round of the annual, open committee nominations cycle. We received over 100 applications from members throughout the state and are excited to welcome many of them to new […]
The CalHHS Data Exchange Framework (DxF) is California’s first-ever statewide data sharing agreement (DSA), aimed at improving the secure and appropriate exchange of health and social services. To understand what signing onto the DSA will mean for physicians and the patients you serve, CAFP has been partnering with BluePath Health and Transform Health to share […]
What is POP!? CAFP POP! is a brand new event combining the Student & Resident Summit and the Family Medicine Clinical Forum on August 25-27th in Orange County. With the merging of both conferences, you can expect all of the same great content plus so much more! Take advantage of early bird rates now through June […]
The View from the Street: What FPs need to know about Fentanyl and Illicit Drugs Join Family Physician Dr. Rebecca Trotsky-Sirr and Sergeant Brian Gunsolley for a discussion of: how Fentanyl and other synthetic opioids are being distributed, obtained and used - both intentionally and unintentionally - by community members; how to communicate more effectively […]
By Fari Valji, MD I've been thinking a lot about menopause treatment, my understanding of it, and how that should change. As a family physician, menopause is such a common cause of visits and questions from patients. Questions come about menopause before they get there, as they enter the perimenopause stage, or when they're in […]
CAFP and CAFP Foundation are excited for a brand new event! We're combining the Clinical Forum and the Summit to bring you POP! - Celebrating the Spectrum of Family Medicine. With the merging of both conferences, attendees will have access to a greater variety of content, networking, speakers, community service opportunities, procedural workshops, leadership development […]
The CAFP stands with the LGBTQIA+ community! We will continue raising awareness to improve health equity and nondiscrimination protections for the entire community, today and every day.
Blog post by Jay W. Lee, MD, MPH, FAAFP As the public health emergency ends and family medicine begins to escape the gravitational pull of the pandemic, one thing is certain: family physicians deserve each other and family physicians deserve to be together. That’s right, after years of upregulating epinephrine due to the ongoing trauma […]
