OAFP Newsletters


2010 Winter Newsletter
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2010 Spring Newsletter
PDF file (8 pages / 783.18MB)

2010 Summer Newsletter
PDF file (8 pages / 1.34MB)

2009 Spring Newsletter
PDF file (8 pages / 536KB)




Start Saving Money on Vaccines Now!
Get Deeper Discounts on Vaccines, Reimbursement Support with Payers, and Timely Updates About New Products, Changes and Promotions!.

The Oklahoma Academy of Family Physicians is partnering with Atlantic Health Partners because Atlantic can save Family Physicians money, advocate for fair payment and support family medicine and our chapter. Joining the Atlantic program is free to your practice and enrollment is completely voluntary.

As a member of Atlantic, your practice places orders directly with Sanofi Pasteur and Merck and receives the most favorable pricing and purchasing terms for pediatric, adolescent, adult, and flu vaccines.. Atlantic also advocates on our behalf with payers for fair and reasonable vaccine reimbursement. Furthermore, Atlantic can provide assistance to your practice related to billing, coding, and inventory management.

We encourage you to contact Cindy Berenson or Jeff Winokur at 800.741.2044 or at info@atlantichealthpartners.com for more information and to register, or visit www.atlantichealthpartners.com.  

 

 

 

Partnership for Prescription Assistance (PPA) Program:

Partnership for Prescription Assistance (PPA) program and along with its national television campaign known as the "Big Orange Bus," is part of the nationwide effort for pharmaceutical research companies to help raise awareness about patient assistance programs.  Click here for a PPA Fact Sheet to distribute to your patients. 


The AAFP's tobacco cessation program, "Ask and Act," encourages family physicians to ASK their patients about tobacco use, then ACT to help them quit.

Research evaluated by the AAFP Tobacco Cessation Advisory Committee at the March 2005 Tobacco Cessation Summit indicated that 70 percent of physicians ask their patients about tobacco use, and about 40 percent take action to help those who use tobacco.

Through the Ask and Act program, AAFP members have access to a variety of resources to help patients quit using tobacco. The materials – some new and some obtained from other sources – are posted online for practices, residencies, family medicine departments and AAFP constituent chapters to download. Resources include: quitline cards; patient education materials; practice materials; CME; and information on reimbursement for tobacco cessation counseling.

Epperly Urges FPs to Focus on the Future

During his speech at the 2008 AAFP Congress of Delegates, President Ted Epperly, MD, of Boise Idaho, outlined five pillars that he said were necessary to transform the health care system. He said health care in America should revolve around

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Health Plan Complaints
The AAFP has teamed up with the American Medical Association to gather and catalog complaints about health care plans and other insurers.

Through the use of an online Health Plan Complaint Form (HPCF), physicians and their staff members can report administrative and payment disputes with health insurers and third party payers. Access this form by clicking on the link above.