Vol. 59 No. 1
January/February/March 2008
Cover: Home sweet medical home
Physician associations, consumer advocates, some large employers and even a few health insurers tout the medical home as the right medicine for what ails the U.S. health care system. So, what is it and who gets to define it?
By Jonathan Nelson
Should you give Medicaid another chance?Now that the Lege has passed a Medicaid pay raise, the ball is in the doctors’ court. Will more money equal more access to care for patients?
By Kate McCann
PLUS: TMA President William Hinchey, M.D., explains why you should take another look at Medicaid in a guest editorial.
TAFP’s roadmap for the futureWith big changes around the Academy, members gathered for an old-fashioned brainstorming session. Read a report from last fall’s strategic planning retreat.
By Kate McCann
DEPARTMENTS
FROM YOUR PRESIDENT: A fresh start for future strategies LEGISLATIVE UPDATE: TAFP goes hi-tech with video Webcasts IN THE NEWS: Medicare payment and the increase illusion | TAFP, AAFP speak up about market consolidation MEMBER NEWS: Physicians’ preventive focus saves county millions | Eagle Lake physician to lead accrediting council | Family medicine loses longtime teacher | Family physicians step up in Galveston medical society | TAFP members direct Houston medical society PRACTICE MANAGEMENT: Procedures provide a prescription for happy patients and a happy practice YEAR IN REVIEW: 2007—a year of new beginnings NUTRITION: A new message for a new year TAFP PERSPECTIVE: Explore a bizarre parallel universe where auto insurance works just like health insurance
